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?'


In Context

3 and command them, saying, 'Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of 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 you will lodge tonight.'|

4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

5 Joshua said to them, |Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

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

7 then you shall tell them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.'|

8 The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6that this may be a sign in your midst. When your children ask hereafter, 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 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?