Bible Cross References
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Joshua 22:25-28
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Whereas the Lord has set boundaries between us and you, even the Jordan, and you have no portion in the Lord: so your sons shall alienate our sons, that they should not worship the Lord.
26
And we gave orders to do thus, to build this altar, not for burnt offerings, nor for meat offerings;
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but that this may be a witness between you and us, and between our posterity after us, that we may do service to the Lord before Him, with our burnt offerings and our meat offerings and our peace offerings: so your sons shall not say to our sons, hereafter, You have no portion in the Lord.
28
And we said, If ever it should come to pass that they should speak [so] to us, or to our posterity hereafter; then shall they say, Behold the likeness of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for the sake of burnt offerings, nor for the sake of meat offerings, but it is a witness between you and us, and between our sons.
Joshua 4:5-9
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said to them, Advance before me in the presence of the Lord into the midst of the Jordan, and each having taken up a stone from there, let him carry it on his shoulders, according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel,
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that these may be to you continually for an appointed sign, that when your son asks you in the future, saying, What are these stones to us?
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then you may explain to your son, saying, The River Jordan was dried up from before the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth, when it crossed over; and these stones shall be for a memorial for you for the children of Israel forever.
8
And the children of Israel did so, as the Lord commanded Joshua; and they took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, (as the Lord commanded Joshua, when the children of Israel had completely passed over) and carried these stones with them into the camp, and laid them down there.
9
And Joshua also set twelve other stones in the Jordan itself, in the place that was under the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and they are there to this day.
Joshua 24:26
And he wrote these words in the Book of the Laws of God. And Joshua took a great stone, and set it up under the oak before the Lord.
Joshua 24:27
And Joshua said to the people, Behold, this stone shall be among you for a witness, for it has heard all the words that have been spoken to it by the Lord; for He has spoken to you this day; and this [stone] shall be among you for a witness in the last days, whenever you shall deal falsely with the Lord my God.
Genesis 28:18
And Jacob rose up in the morning, and took the stone he [had] laid there by his head, and he set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
Genesis 31:46-52
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And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and you this day.
47
And Laban called it, the Heap of Testimony; and Jacob called it, the Witness Heap.
48
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and the pillar, which I have set between me and you; this heap witnesses, and this pillar witnesses; therefore its name was called, The Heap Witnesses.
49
And the vision of which he said, Let God look to it between me and you, because we are about to depart from each other.
50
If you shall humble my daughters, if you should take wives in addition to my daughters, see, there is no one with us looking on. God is witness between me and you.
51
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold, this heap and this pillar are a witness.
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For if I should not cross over unto you, neither should you cross over to me, for mischief beyond this heap and this pillar.