Joshua 4:21

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And he spake vnto the chyldren of Israel, saying: If your chyldren aske their fathers in tyme to come, and saye: What meane these stones?

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  • Josh 4:6 : 6 That this may be a signe among you: That when your chyldren aske their fathers in tyme to come, saying, What meane these stones with you?
  • Ps 105:2-5 : 2 Sing vnto hym, sing psalmes vnto him: talke you of all his wonderous workes. 3 Glary ye in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God. 4 Seeke God and his strength: seeke his face euermore. 5 Remember the meruaylous workes that he hath done: his wonders, and the iudgementes of his mouth.
  • Ps 145:4-7 : 4 One generation shal praise thy workes vnto another: and they shall declare thy mightie power. 5 I wyll set foorth in wordes the glorious maiestie of thy excellentnesse: and thy wonderous workes. 6 I wyll also declare thy greatnesse: so that men shall speake of the force of thy terrible actes. 7 They shall vtter out of their mouth a memoriall of thyne aboundaunt kyndnesse: and they shall syng of thy ryghteousnesse.

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  • Josh 4:1-9
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    1And so when the people were al gone ouer Iordane (after ye Lord had spoken vnto Iosuah, saying:

    2Take you twelue men out of the people, out of euery tribe a man,

    3And commaunde you them, saying: Take you hence out of the middes of Iordane euen out of the place where the priestes stoode in a redinesse, twelue stones, which ye shall take away with you, and leaue them in the lodgyng where you shall lodge this nyght)

    4Then Iosuah called the twelue men, which he had prepared of the chyldren of Israel, out of euery tribe a man.

    5And Iosuah sayde vnto them: Get you before the arke of the Lorde your God, euen through the middes of Iordane, and take vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shoulder, accordyng vnto the number of the tribes of the chyldren of Israel,

    6That this may be a signe among you: That when your chyldren aske their fathers in tyme to come, saying, What meane these stones with you?

    7Ye maye aunswere them: howe that the waters of Iordane deuided at the presence of the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, (For when it went ouer Iordane, the waters of Iordane deuided) And these stones are become a memoriall vnto the chyldren of Israel for euer.

    8And the chyldren of Israel dyd euen so as Iosuah commaunded, and toke vp twelue stones out of the middes of Iordane as the Lorde sayde vnto Iosuah, accordyng to the number of the tribes of the chyldren of Israel, and caryed them away with them vnto the place where they lodged, & layde them downe there.

    9And Iosuah set vp twelue stones in the middes of Iordane, in the place where the feete of the priestes whiche bare the arke of the testament stoode: and there haue they continued vnto this day.

  • Josh 4:22
    82%

    22Ye shall shewe your chyldren, and say: Israel came ouer this Iordane on drye lande.

  • Josh 4:20
    82%

    20And the twelue stones whiche they toke out of Iordane, dyd Iosuah pitch in Gilgal.

  • Josh 24:26-27
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    76%

    26And Iosuah wrote these wordes in the booke of the lawe of God: and toke a great stone, and pitched it on ende in the sayde place, euen vnder an oke that was in the sanctuarie of the Lorde.

    27And Iosuah sayde vnto al the people: Behold, this stone shalbe a witnesse vnto vs, for it hath hearde al the wordes of the Lorde whiche he spake with vs, it shalbe therfore a witnesse vnto you, lest ye denie your God.

  • Deut 6:20-21
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    76%

    20And when thy sonne asketh thee in tyme to come, saying: What meaneth these testimonies, ordinaunces, and lawes, which the Lorde our God hath commaunded you?

    21Then thou shalt say vnto thy sonne: We were Pharaos bondmen in Egypt, and the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt with a mightie hande:

  • Deut 27:2
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    2And in that day when you shall passe ouer Iordane vnto the lande whiche the Lord thy God geueth thee, thou shalt set thee vp great stones, and plaster them with plaster:

  • Deut 27:4
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    4Therfore when ye be come ouer Iordane, ye shal set vp these stones which I commaunde you this day in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster.

  • Exod 12:26
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    26And when your chyldren aske you, what maner of seruice is this ye do?

  • Josh 3:8-9
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    8And thou shalt comaunde ye priestes that beare the arke of the couenaunt, saying: when ye are come to the edge of the waters of Iordane, ye shall stande still in Iordane.

    9And Iosuah saide vnto the children of Israel: Come hyther, and heare the wordes of the Lorde your God.

  • Josh 4:15
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    15And the Lorde spake vnto Iosuah, saying:

  • Josh 20:1
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    1The Lorde also spake vnto Iosuah, saying:

  • Exod 13:14
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    14And when thy sonne aske thee in time to come, saying: what is this? Thou shalt saye vnto hym: With a myghtie hande the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

  • Josh 22:24
    71%

    24And yf we haue not rather done it for feare of this thyng, saying, In tyme to come your chyldren myght say vnto ours: What haue you to do with the Lorde God of Israel?

  • Deut 11:19
    71%

    19And ye shall teache them your chyldren, that they may talke of them when thou sittest in thyne house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou lyest downe, and when thou risest vp.

  • Deut 31:13
    71%

    13And that their children which knowe nothyng, may heare, and learne to feare the Lorde your God, as long as ye lyue in the lande whyther ye go ouer Iordane to possesse it.

  • Josh 22:27-28
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    70%

    27But for a witnesse betweene vs and you, and our generations after vs, that we should serue the Lorde with our offerynges, sacrifices, & peace offerynges before him: & that your children shoulde not say to ours in tyme to come, Ye haue no part in the Lorde.

    28Therfore sayde we, that yf they should so say to vs or to our generations in tyme to come: that we wolde say again, Behold the fassion of the aulter of the Lord which our fathers made, neither for burnt offringes nor sacrifices, but for a witnesse betweene vs and you.

  • Ps 78:5-6
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    70%

    5For he reuiued a statute in Iacob, and gaue Israel a lawe: in the whiche he commaunded our forefathers to teache their children.

    6To the intent the posteritie shoulde knowe it, and children whiche shalbe borne: that they shoulde ryse vp and declare it to their children.

  • Josh 1:12
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    12And vnto the Rubenites, Gadites, and halfe the tribe of Manasses spake Iosuah saying:

  • Num 33:51
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    51Speake vnto the chyldren of Israel, and say vnto them: When ye are come ouer Iordane to enter into the lande of Chanaan,

  • Josh 8:31-32
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    31As Moyses the seruaunt of the Lord commaunded the chyldren of Israel, and as it is written in the booke of the lawe of Moyses, an aulter of whole stones, ouer which no man hath lyft an iron: And they sacrificed theron burnt sacrifices vnto the Lorde, and offered peace offerynges.

    32And he wrote there vpon the stones a rehearsal of the lawe of Moyses, and wrote it in the presence of the chyldren of Israel.

  • Deut 4:10
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    10Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lorde thy God in Horeb, when the Lorde sayd vnto me: Gather me the people together, & I wyll make them heare my wordes, that they may learne to feare me all the dayes that they shall lyue vpon the earth, and that they may teache their children.

  • Exod 39:7
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    7And he put them on the shoulders of the Ephod, that they shoulde be stones for a remembraunce of the children of Israel, as the Lorde commaunded Moyses.

  • Deut 32:46
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    46And sayde vnto them: Set your heartes vnto all the wordes which I testifie vnto you this day, and ye shall commaunde them vnto your children, that they may obserue and do all the wordes of this lawe.

  • Josh 22:1
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    1Then Iosuah called the Rubenites, the Gadites, & the halfe tribe of Manasses,

  • Joel 1:3
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    3Of this thyng tell your children, and let your children shewe it to their children, and their children to their posteritie afterwarde.

  • Josh 1:10
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    10Then Iosuah commaunded the officers of the people, saying:

  • Josh 23:2
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    2And Iosuah called for all Israel, and for their elders, their heades, their iudges, and officers, and sayd vnto them: I am olde and stricken in age,

  • Josh 4:18
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    18And when the priestes that bare the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, were come vp out of the middes of Iordane, and assoone as the soles of the priestes feete were set on ye drie land, the waters of Iordane returned vnto their place, and went ouer all their bankes as they dyd before.

  • Deut 4:44
    68%

    44And so this is the lawe which Moyses set before the children of Israel:

  • Deut 3:21
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    21And I commaunded Iosuah hym selfe the same tyme, saying: Thyne eyes haue seene all that the Lorde your God hath done vnto these two kynges: euen so shall he do vnto all kyngdomes whither thou goest.

  • Josh 7:25
    68%

    25And Iosuah sayde: In as much as thou hast troubled vs, the Lorde shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned hym with stones, and burned them with fire, and ouerwhelmed them with stones.

  • Josh 8:35
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    35And there was not one worde of all that Moyses commaunded, which Iosuah read not before all the congregation of Israel, aswel the women and chyldren, as the straungers that were conuersaunt among them.