Joshua 4:21

And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers, to morrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

20And the twelve stones which they had taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Josue pitched in Galgal,

22You shall teach them and say: Israel passed over this Jordan through the dry channel.

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Cross References

Joshua 4:6That it may be a sign among you end when your children shall ask you to morrow, saying: What mean these stones?

Psalms 145:4Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 4:21-24

20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. 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? 22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone… Read the whole commentary →

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