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  • Good one. I think it was 12 - for the number of tribes.
    • RareCatch
      Stay Ahead! Aug. 16 2017
    • RareCatch
      Correct Aug. 16 2017
  • 8-16-2017 Joshua 4:4 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying, 2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, 3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night. 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: 5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: 6 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? 7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. 8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the Lord spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
    • RareCatch
      Interesting Aug. 16 2017
  • Joshua 4:8 "They took up 12 stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as Jehovah had instructed Joshua, to correspond to the number of the tribes of the Israelites. They took them over to the place where they would spend the night and set them down there." Joshua 4:9"Joshua also set up 12 stones in the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood," Joshua 4:20 "As for the 12 stones that they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set these up at Gilʹgal." In answer to your question, 12 stones were set in the Jordan river and remained there. Another 12 were set-up at the camp at Gilgal. So, 2 sets of 12 stones?
  • Twelve...presumably as a reminder for "the landed tribes". There were thirteen tribes (the important Levites often being omitted in Biblical lists of the tribes because they had neither an independent tribal territory nor soldiers).

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