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Joshua 4:8Josh.4.8

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.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Les enfants d'Israël firent ce que Josué leur avait ordonné. Ils enlevèrent douze pierres du milieu du Jourdain, comme l'Eternel l'avait dit à Josué, selon le nombre des tribus des enfants d'Israël, ils les emportèrent avec eux, et les déposèrent dans le lieu où ils devaient passer la nuit.

KJV

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.

Patristic reading

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    Patrologia Latina Vol. 120 (Migne)

    de medio Jordanis in terram transportari jusserat, atque alios ex terra in eodem alveo restituerat (Jos. IV, 8) . Ad quos tunc fortassis lapides digitum extendens, aiebat: Potens est Deus ex lapidibus istis, per quos Judaeorum necatio et gentium ad lucis speciem transformatio pr…

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