21And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers, to morrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?


In Context

18 And when they that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, were come up, and began to tread on the dry ground, the waters returned into the channel, and ran as they were wont before.

19 And the people came up out of the Jordan, the tenth day of the first month, and camped in Galgal, over against the east side of the city of Jericho.

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

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?

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

23 The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight, until you passed over: As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till we passed through :

Joshua 4:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:21And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What [mean] these stones?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:21He said to the Israelites, "In the future when your descendants ask their fathers, 'What do these stones mean?'

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:21And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children hereafter ask their fathers, saying, What mean these stones?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:21And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, |When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What do these stones mean?'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:21And he speaketh unto the sons of Israel, saying, 'When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What are these stones?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:21And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?