Joshua 4:5

Tree of Life Version

Joshua said to them, “Cross over before the ark of Adonai your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you, lift up a stone on his shoulder, for the number of the tribes of Bnei-Yisrael.

Cross References

Genesis 31:46

and Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they took the stones and made a pile. Then they ate there on the pile.

Exodus 24:4

So Moses wrote down all the words of Adonai, then rose up early in the morning, and built an altar below the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Deuteronomy 27:2

Now on the day when you cross over the Jordan to the land that Adonai your God is giving you, you are to set up large stones for yourself and coat them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 9:1

“Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself—cities great and fortified up to the heavens.

Joshua 22:10

Now when they came to the region near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan—a large, conspicuous altar.

Joshua 4:4

Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from Bnei-Yisrael, one man from each tribe.

Joshua 4:6

Let this be a sign among you. When your children ask later saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’