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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Joshua 4 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><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="/bmcc/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="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NRSVCE</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Twelve Stones Set Up at Gilgal</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>When the entire nation had finished crossing over the Jordan, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Joshua: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>“Select twelve men from the people, one from each tribe, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>and command them, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet stood, carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you camp tonight.’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Then Joshua summoned the twelve men from the Israelites, whom he had appointed, one from each tribe. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, one for each of the tribes of the Israelites, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>so that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off in front of the ark of the covenant of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the Israelites a memorial forever.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The Israelites did as Joshua commanded. They took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> told Joshua, carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>(Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.)</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The priests who bore the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan, until everything was finished that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people crossed over in haste. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>As soon as all the people had finished crossing over, the ark of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and the priests, crossed over in front of the people. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the Israelites, as Moses had ordered them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>About forty thousand armed for war crossed over before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> to the plains of Jericho for battle.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>On that day the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him, as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Joshua, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>“Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-5927a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> to come up out of the Jordan.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Joshua therefore commanded the priests, “Come up out of the Jordan.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>When the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet touched dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>Those twelve stones, which they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>saying to the Israelites, “When your children ask their parents in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel crossed over the Jordan here on dry ground.’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you crossed over, as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God did to the Red Sea,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-5934b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> which he dried up for us until we crossed over, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is mighty, and so that you may fear the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God forever.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Joshua 4:16">Joshua 4:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>treaty</i>, or <i>testimony</i>; Heb <i>eduth</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Joshua 4:23">Joshua 4:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sea of Reeds</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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