Joshua 4:22
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New International Version (©2011)
tell them, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then you can tell them, 'This is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
then you shall inform your children, saying, 'Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
you should tell your children, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.'

International Standard Version (©2012)
you are to tell your descendants: 'Israel crossed this Jordan River on dry ground

NET Bible (©2006)
explain to your children, 'Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
the children should be told that Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

American King James Version
Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

American Standard Version
Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall teach them and say: Israel passed over this Jordan through the dry channel.

Darby Bible Translation
then ye shall let your children know, saying, On dry land did Israel come over this Jordan;

English Revised Version
Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

World English Bible
Then you shall let your children know, saying, 'Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Young's Literal Translation
then ye have caused your sons to know, saying, On dry land Israel passed over this Jordan;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:20-24 It is the duty of parents to tell their children betimes of the words and works of God, that they may be trained up in the way they should go. In all the instruction parents give their children, they should teach them to fear God. Serious godliness is the best learning. Are we not called, as much as the Israelites, to praise the loving-kindness of our God? Shall we not raise a pillar to our God, who has brought us through dangers and distresses in so wonderful a way? For hitherto the Lord hath helped us, as much as he did his saints of old. How great the stupidity and ingratitude of men, who perceive not His hand, and will not acknowledge his goodness, in their frequent deliverances!

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then ye shall let your children know,.... The meaning of the erection of these stones, acquaint them with the whole history, the meaning of which they are designed to perpetuate:

saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land; and if they should ask how that could possibly be done, or if they did not, they were to inform them by what means it was brought about, as follows.

Joshua 4:22 Parallel Commentaries
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The Camp at Gilgal
…21And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? 22Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until you were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:

Exodus 14:22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.
Joshua 3:17 The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.
Joshua 4:21 He said to the Israelites, "In the future when your descendants ask their parents, 'What do these stones mean?'