21 The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

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21 There are to be twelve stones, one for each of the names of the sons of Israel,(A) each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.(B)

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14 The twelve stones corresponded to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

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14 There were twelve stones, one for each of the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.(A)

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Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle[a] of the Jordan where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing. The stones are still there today.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:9 Or Now Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the middle

Joshua set up the twelve stones(A) 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.(B)

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  1. Joshua 4:9 Or Joshua also set up twelve stones

20 Then Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan,

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20 And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones(A) they had taken out of the Jordan.

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31 Elijah took twelve stones—according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel will be your name”(A)

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31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.”(A)

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