6that this may be a sign in your midst. When your children ask hereafter, saying, What mean ye by these stones?


In Context

3 and command them, saying, Take up hence out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place where ye shall lodge this night.

4 And Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had appointed of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe;

5 and Joshua said to them, Pass before the ark of Jehovah your God into the midst of the Jordan, and lift up each of you a stone and put it upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,

6 that this may be a sign in your midst. When your children ask hereafter, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

7 then ye shall say to them, That the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it went through the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

8 And the children of Israel did so, as Joshua had commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the lodging-place, and laid them down there.

Joshua 4:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:6That 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?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:6to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, 'What do these stones mean?'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:6that this may be a sign among you, that, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:6that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6That 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?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, 'What do you mean by these stones?'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6so that this is a sign in your midst, when your children ask hereafter, saying, What are these stones to you?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:6That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean you by these stones?