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Joshua 4:6

to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

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ASV

that this may be a sign among you, that, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

KJV

That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לְמַ֗עַןle.Ma.'anso thatH4616 →
תִּֽהְיֶ֛הtih.Yehit may beH1961 →
זֹ֥אתzotthisH2063 →
א֖וֹת'ota signH226 →
בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑םbe.kir.be.Khemin midst yourH7130 →
כִּֽי־ki-ifH3588 →
יִשְׁאָל֨וּןyish.'a.Lunthey will ask !H7592 →
בְּנֵיכֶ֤םbe.nei.Khemchildren yourH1121 →
מָחָר֙ma.ChartomorrowH4279 →
לֵאמֹ֔רle.Mor<to> sayingH559 →
מָ֛הmahwhat?H4100 →
הָאֲבָנִ֥יםha.'a.va.Nim[are] the stonesH68 →
הָאֵ֖לֶּהha.'E.leh<the> theseH428 →
לָכֶֽם׃la.Khemto <the> you

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Exodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.Joshua 4:21Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.Deuteronomy 6:20–21In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”Deuteronomy 11:19Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.Joshua 22:27Rather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD!’Psalms 71:18Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.Exodus 12:26–27When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’Isaiah 55:13Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”Isaiah 38:19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.Psalms 78:3–8that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.Joshua 22:24But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?Numbers 16:38As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”Exodus 12:14And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.Ezekiel 20:12I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.Exodus 13:9It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”Exodus 31:13“Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

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The Walls of Jericho Fall Down — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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