Joshua 4:6

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

that this may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’

Cross References

Psalm 44:1

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what deeds thou didst perform in their days, in the days of old:

Psalm 71:18

So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, till I proclaim thy might to all the generations to come. Thy power

Exodus 12:14

“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.

Exodus 13:14

And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Exodus 13:9

And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt.

Exodus 31:13

“Say to the people of Israel, ‘You shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.

Isaiah 38:19

The living, the living, he thanks thee, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children thy faithfulness.

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign which shall not be cut off.”

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover I gave them my sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them.

Ezekiel 20:20

and hallow my sabbaths that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I the Lord am your God.

Numbers 16:38

the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives; so let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord; therefore they are holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”

Acts 2:39

For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him.”

Deuteronomy 11:19

And you shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Joshua 22:27

but to be a witness between us and you, and between the generations after us, that we do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings; lest your children say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.” ’

Joshua 4:21

And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’

Joshua 4:5

and Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,