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Joshua 4:20
Joshua 4:20 is verse 20 of Joshua chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
King James Version
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
World English Bible
Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.
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Joshua 4:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
20 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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Joshua 4:3and 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.’”
Joshua 4:8Thus 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.