Joshua 4:22 “you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’”

Joshua 4:22

you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

World English Bible

Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

American Standard Version

then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then ye shall shew your children, and say, Israel came ouer this Iorden on dry land:

Darby Translation

then ye shall let your children know, saying, On dry land did Israel come over this Jordan;

Young's Literal Translation

then ye have caused your sons to know, saying, On dry land Israel passed over this Jordan;

Bible in Basic English

Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.

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Cross references

“Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.”

Joshua 3:17 Isaiah 51:10 Exodus 14:29 Exodus 15:19 Isaiah 44:27 Revelation 16:12

Joshua 3:17 · BSB

The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.

Isaiah 51:10 · BSB

Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?

Exodus 14:29 · BSB

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Exodus 15:19 · BSB

For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

Isaiah 44:27 · BSB

who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

Revelation 16:12 · BSB

And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.

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