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


In Context

18 And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord . No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage 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 Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.

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

22 tell them, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.'

23 For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:21And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers, to morrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?

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?