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Joshua 4:4 (NASB)
[SUP]4 [/SUP] So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe;
 
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Joshua 4:5
New International Version (NIV)

and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites,
 
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Joshua 4:6 (KJV)
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
 

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Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel forever.
 
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Joshua 4:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] Thus the sons of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as the LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the lodging place and put them down there.
 
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Joshua 4:9
New International Version (NIV)

Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been[a] in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.

a. Or Joshua also set up twelve stones
 
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Joshua 4:10
King James Version(KJV)

10.)For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
 
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Joshua 4:11 (KJV)
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.
 
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Joshua 4:12
King James Version(KJV)

12.)And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
 
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Joshua 4:13 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] about 40,000 equipped for war, crossed for battle before the LORD to the desert plains of Jericho.
 
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Joshua 4:14 (KJV)
On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
 
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Joshua 4:15
New International Version (NIV)

Then the LORD said to Joshua,
 
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Joshua 4:16 (NASB)
[SUP]16 [/SUP] "Command the priests who carry the ark of the testimony that they come up from the Jordan."
 
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Joshua 4:17 (NASB)
[SUP]17 [/SUP] So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."
 
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Joshua 4:18 (KJV)
And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
 
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Joshua 4:19
New International Version (NIV)

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.
 
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Joshua 4:21 (NASB)
[SUP]21 [/SUP] He said to the sons of Israel, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What are these stones?'
 

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Joshua 4:22
New International Version (NIV)

tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
 
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Joshua 4:23 (NASB)
[SUP]23 [/SUP] "For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the LORD your God had done to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed;