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Joshua 4:21
And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?
Joshua 4:21 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Joshua 4:21 in other translations
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?
Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
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In context
18 And when they that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, were come up, and began to tread on the dry ground, the waters returned into their channel, and ran as they were wont before.
19 And the people came up out of the Jordan, the tenth day of the first month, and camped in Galgal, over against the east side of the city of Jericho.
20 And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Joshua pitched in Galgal,
21 And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?
22 You shall teach them, and say: Israel passed over this Jordan through the dry channel,
23 The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight, until you passed over:
24 As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till we passed through:
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