Joshua 4:21 Parallel Translations

He said to the people of Israel, "In the future when children ask their parents, 'What do these stones mean?'(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

ASV:

And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

BBE:

And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?

DBY:

And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children hereafter ask their fathers, saying, What mean these stones?

ERV:

And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

JPS:

And he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying: 'When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying: What mean these stones?

WBS:

And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

WEB:

He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying,'What do these stones mean?'

YLT:

And he speaketh unto the sons of Israel, saying, 'When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What are these stones?

Joshua 4:21 Cross References

XREF:

Joshua 4:20 Those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.

Joshua 4:22 then you shall inform your children, saying, 'Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.' (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

4:20-24 It is the duty of parents to tell their children betimes of the words and works of God, that they may be trained up in the way they should go. In all the instruction parents give their children, they should teach them to fear God. Serious godliness is the best learning. Are we not called, as much as the Israelites, to praise the loving-kindness of our God? Shall we not raise a pillar to our God, who has brought us through dangers and distresses in so wonderful a way? For hitherto the Lord hath helped us, as much as he did his saints of old. How great the stupidity and ingratitude of men, who perceive not His hand, and will not acknowledge his goodness, in their frequent deliverances!

CONC:

Descendants Fathers Future Hereafter Mean Reason Saying Sons Spake Speaketh Spoke Stones

Children Descendants Hereafter Israel Israelites Mean Speaketh Stones Time What

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