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Joshua 4:20

JoshuaGilgalJordan

18 When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.

19 On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

21 Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

22 you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

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BSB
And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
KJV
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
WEB
Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.
ASV
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
DARBY
And those twelve stones which they had taken out of the Jordan did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
BLB
And these twelve stones that they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
ÅB
Og der i Gilgal reiste Josva opp de tolv steiner som de hadde tatt opp av Jordan.
OTB
Ved Gilgal reiste Josva de tolv steinene de hadde tatt fra Jordan.
B1930
Og der i Gilgal reiste Josva op de tolv stener som de hadde tatt op av Jordan.

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  • Joshua 4:8

    Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.

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  • Joshua 4:3

    and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”

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