OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 4:5

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Joshua said to them, “Cross before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

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Verse 5. Of Israel, who had twelve sons. The same expression occurs Deuteronomy 32:8, and must be explained of the immediate sons of Jacob, without including those grandchildren who might be born before his death. Bible.

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