19 Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped (A)in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. 20 And (B)those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. 21 Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: (C)“When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ 22 then you shall let your children know, saying, (D)‘Israel crossed over this Jordan on (E)dry land’; 23 for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, (F)which He dried up before us until we had crossed over, 24 (G)that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is (H)mighty, that you may (I)fear the Lord your God [a]forever.”

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  1. Joshua 4:24 Lit. all days

19 On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal(A) on the eastern border of Jericho. 20 And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones(B) they had taken out of the Jordan. 21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’(C) 22 tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’(D) 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 what he had done to the Red Sea[a] when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.(E) 24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know(F) that the hand of the Lord is powerful(G) and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.(H)

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  1. Joshua 4:23 Or the Sea of Reeds