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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Joshua 4 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/joshua/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/joshua/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Joshua 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joshua/3.htm" title="Joshua 3">◄</a> Joshua 4 <a href="../joshua/5.htm" title="Joshua 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The People Set Up a Monument</h3><p class="par"><span class="v6_4_1"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.1" class="v6_4_1">1</span>After Israel had crossed the Jordan, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Joshua:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v6_4_2"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.2-Josh.4.3" class="v6_4_2">2-3</span>Tell<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.4.2-Josh.4.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> one man from each of the twelve tribes to pick up a large rock from where the priests are standing. Then tell the men to set up those rocks as a monument at the place where you camp tonight.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_4_4"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.4" class="v6_4_4">4</span>Joshua chose twelve men; then he called them together </span><span class="v6_4_5"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.5" class="v6_4_5">5</span>and said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v6_4_5">Go to the middle of the riverbed where the sacred chest is, and pick up a large rock. Carry it on your shoulder to our camp. There are twelve of you, so there will be one rock for each tribe. </span><span class="v6_4_6"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.6-Josh.4.7" class="v6_4_6">6-7</span>Someday your children will ask, “Why are these rocks here?” Then you can tell them how the water stopped flowing when the chest was being carried across the river. These rocks will always remind our people of what happened here today.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_4_8"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.8" class="v6_4_8">8</span>The men followed the instructions that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had given Joshua. They picked up twelve rocks, one for each tribe, and carried them to the camp, where they put them down.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_4_9"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.9" class="v6_4_9">9</span>Joshua set up a monument next to the place where the priests were standing. This monument was also made of twelve large rocks, and it is still there in the middle of the river.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The People of Israel Set Up Camp at Gilgal</h3><p class="par"><span class="v6_4_10"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.10-Josh.4.13" class="v6_4_10">10-13</span>The army got ready for battle and crossed the Jordan with everyone else. They marched quickly past the sacred chest<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.4.10-Josh.4.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and into the desert near Jericho. Forty thousand soldiers from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.4.10-Josh.4.13!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> led the way, as Moses had ordered.<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.4.10-Josh.4.13!f.3" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_4_10">The priests stayed right where they were until the people had followed the orders that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had given Moses and Joshua. Then they watched as the priests carried the chest the rest of the way across.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_4_14"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.14-Josh.4.18" class="v6_4_14">14-18</span>“Joshua,” the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “tell the priests to come up from the Jordan and bring the chest with them.” So Joshua went over to the priests and told them what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said. And as soon as the priests carried the chest past the highest place that the floodwaters of the Jordan had reached, the river flooded its banks again.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_4_14">That's how the <span class="nd">Lord</span> showed the Israelites that Joshua was their leader.<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.4.14-Josh.4.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> For the rest of Joshua's life, they respected him as they had respected Moses.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v6_4_19"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.19" class="v6_4_19">19</span>It was the tenth day of the first month<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.4.19!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> of the year when Israel crossed the Jordan River. They set up camp at Gilgal, which was east of the land controlled by Jericho. </span><span class="v6_4_20"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.20" class="v6_4_20">20</span>The men who had carried the twelve rocks from the Jordan brought them to Joshua, and they made them into a monument. </span><span class="v6_4_21"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.21" class="v6_4_21">21</span>Then Joshua told the people:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v6_4_21">Years from now your children will ask you why these rocks are here. </span><span class="v6_4_22"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.22-Josh.4.23" class="v6_4_22">22-23</span>Tell them, “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God dried up the Jordan River so we could walk across. He did the same thing here for us that he did for our people at the Red Sea,<a href="#fn" id="link_Josh.4.22-Josh.4.23!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v6_4_24"><span class="reftext" id="Josh.4.24" class="v6_4_24">24</span>because he wants everyone on earth to know how powerful he is. And he wants us to worship only him.”</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.1-3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Joshua … Tell: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “Joshua, you and the other leaders must tell.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.10-13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the sacred chest: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “the <char style="nd">Lord</char>.” The army was marching past the sacred chest, which was a symbol of God's throne on earth (see 1 Samuel 4.4 and Exodus 25.10-22; 37.1-9).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.10-13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Forty thousand soldiers from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “There were forty thousand soldiers altogether, and those from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.10-13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Moses … ordered: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See Numbers 32.16-32; Joshua 1.12-16.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.14-18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">leader: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See 3.7.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.19 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">first month: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Abib (also called Nisan), the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.22,23 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Red Sea: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 2.10.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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