Joshua 4:21

21 Then he said to the people of Isra'el, "In the future, when your children ask their fathers what these stones mean,

Joshua 4:21 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 4:21

And he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying
At the same time he set up the stones:

when you children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying,
What [mean] these stones? (See Gill on Joshua 4:6).

Joshua 4:21 In-Context

19 The people came up out of the Yarden on the tenth day of the first month and camped at Gilgal, by the eastern boundary of Yericho.

20 Those twelve stones which they took out of the Yarden, Y'hoshua piled up at Gilgal.

21 Then he said to the people of Isra'el, "In the future, when your children ask their fathers what these stones mean,

22 you are to explain it to them by saying, 'Isra'el came over this Yarden on dry land.

23 For ADONAI your God dried up the water in the Yarden from in front of you, until you had crossed, just as ADONAI your God did to the Sea of Suf, which he dried up from in front of us, until we had crossed.