And command you them, saying
As follows:
take you hence out of the midst of Jordan;
so that they were obliged to go back into the midst of Jordan,
having already passed over it, as appears from ( Joshua 4:1 ) ;
out of the place where the priests' feet stood
firm;
where being stones, they chose to stand upon them, and which were
a firm standing for them; and which secured them from the slime
and mud at the bottom of the river the waters left behind; though
it is not absolutely necessary to understand it that they were to
take, and did take, the stones from under their feet, but those
that lay about the place where they stood:
twelve stones;
each man a stone; and, according to the Samaritan Chronicle
F6, every man inscribed his name on the
stone:
and ye shall carry them over with you;
from the place they took them up, to the place they should next
stop at:
and leave them in the lodging place where you shall lodge
this night:
which was in the place afterwards called Gilgal, ( Joshua 4:19 Joshua 4:20 ) .