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19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.
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On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
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And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.
21 And he said to the people of Israel, "When your children ask their fathers in times to come, 'What do these stones mean?'
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He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’
22 then you shall let your children know, 'Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.'
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tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,
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For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.
24 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever."
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He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God.”
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