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Joshua 4 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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<A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>then thou mayest explain to thy son, saying, The river Jordan was dried up from before the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth, when it passed it: and these stones shall be for a memorial for you for the children of Israel for ever.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the children of Israel did so, as the Lord commanded Joshua; and they took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, (as the Lord commanded Joshua, when the children of Israel had completely passed over,) and carried these stones with them into the camp, and laid them down there. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Joshua set also other twelve stones in Jordan itself, in the place that was under the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and there they are to this day. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood in Jordan, until Joshua <i>had</i> finished all that the Lord commanded him to report to the people; and the people hasted and passed over. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And it came to pass when all the people had passed over, that the ark of the covenant of the Lord passed over, and the stones before them. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses commanded them. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Forty thousand armed for battle went over before the Lord to war, to the city of Jericho.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>In that day the Lord magnified Joshua before all the people of Israel; and they feared him, as <i>they did</i> Moses, as long as he lived.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Charge the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of the testimony of the Lord, to go up out of Jordan. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Joshua charged the priests, saying, Go up out of Jordan. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were gone up out of Jordan, and set their feet upon the land, <i>that</i> the water of Jordan returned impetuously to its place, and went as before over all its banks.<p> <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">The Camp at Gilgal<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And the people went up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month; and the children of Israel encamped in Galgala in the region eastward from Jericho. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Joshua set these twelve stones which he took out of Jordan, in Galgala, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>saying, When your sons ask you, saying, What are these stones? <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Tell your sons, that Israel went over this Jordan on dry land, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>when the Lord our God had dried up the water of Jordan from before them, until they had passed over; as the Lord our God did to the Red Sea, which the Lord our God dried up from before us, until we passed over. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>That all the nations of the earth might know, that the power of the Lord is mighty, and that ye might worship the Lord our God in every work.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../joshua/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joshua 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joshua 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../joshua/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Joshua 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Joshua 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>