Bible Cross References
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Joshua 22:25-28
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For Jehovah has made the Jordan a border between you and us, you sons of Reuben and sons of Gad. You have no portion in Jehovah. Thus your sons would make our sons cease to fear Jehovah.
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Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice,
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but that it may be a witness between you and us and our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your sons may not say to our sons in time to come, You have no portion in Jehovah.
28
Therefore we thought that it shall be, when they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Look at the pattern of the altar of Jehovah which our fathers have made, though not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between you and us.
Joshua 4:5-9
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and Joshua said to them: Cross over before the ark of Jehovah your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel,
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that this may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come, saying, What are these stones to you?
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Then you shall answer them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel for all time.
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And the children of Israel did so, as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
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And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, at the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
Joshua 24:26
And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Jehovah.
Joshua 24:27
And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of Jehovah which He has spoken to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.
Genesis 28:18
And Jacob arose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
Genesis 31:46-52
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And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap.
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Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
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And Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and me this day. Therefore its name was called Galeed;
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also, Mizpah; because he said, May Jehovah watch between you and me when we are hidden (being absent) one from another.
50
If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, although no man is with us; consider that God is witness between you and me.
51
And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap and this pillar, which I have cast between me and you:
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This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a testimony, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for evil.