Joshua 4:5

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Joshua said to them, “Cross before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

Cross References

Genesis 31:46

Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

Exodus 24:4

Moses wrote all the LORD’s words, then rose up early in the morning and built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Deuteronomy 27:2

It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and coat them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 9:1

Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

Joshua 22:10

When they came to the region near the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.

Joshua 4:4

Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe.

Joshua 4:6

that this may be a sign amongst you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’