Holy Scripture
Joshua 4:3
A church father on this verse
“The people of the Hebrews, as we learn, after many sufferings, and after accomplishing their weary course in the desert, did not enter the land of promise until it had first been brought, with Joshua for its guide and the pilot of its life, to the passage of the Jordan. But it is clear that Joshua also, who set up the…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3and charge them; and ye shall take out of the midst of Jordan twelve fit stones, and having carried them across together with yourselves, place them in your camp, where ye shall encamp for the night.
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1And when the people had completely passed over Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,
2Take men from the people, one of each tribe,
— Joshua 4:3 —
4And Joshua having called twelve men of distinction among the children of Israel, one of each tribe,
5said to them, Advance before me in the presence of the Lord into the midst of Jordan, and each having taken up a stone from thence, let him carry it on his shoulders, according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel: