Joshua 4:21 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

²¹ Then Joshua told the people: Years from now your children will ask you why these rocks are here.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And he said to the Israelites, When your children ask their fathers in time to come, What do these stones mean?

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

Common English Bible

²¹ He said to the Israelites, “In the future your children will ask their parents, ‘What about these stones?’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And he said to the sons of Israel: "When your sons will question their fathers, tomorrow, and they will say to them, 'What do these stones mean to you?'

Joshua 4:21 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 13:14

In the future your children will ask what this ceremony means. Explain it to them by saying, “The Lord used his mighty power to rescue us from slavery in Egypt.

Joshua 4:20

The men who had carried the twelve rocks from the Jordan brought them to Joshua, and they made them into a monument.

Joshua 4:22

Tell them, “The Lord our God dried up the Jordan River so we could walk across. He did the same thing here for us that he did for our people at the Red Sea,

Joshua 4:6

Someday your children will ask, “Why are these rocks here?” Then you can tell them how the water stopped flowing when the chest was being carried across the river. These rocks will always remind our people of what happened here today.