Joshua 4:6
to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, 'What do these stones mean to you?'
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Joshua 22:27
Rather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.' Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, 'You have no share in the LORD!'

Exodus 12:14
And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

Exodus 13:9
It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

Exodus 31:13
"Tell the Israelites, 'Surely you must observe My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

Numbers 16:38
As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites."

Isaiah 55:13
Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD as an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed."

Ezekiel 20:12
I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

when your

Joshua 4:21
Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "In the future, when your children ask their fathers, 'What is the meaning of these stones?'

Exodus 12:26
When your children ask you, 'What does this service mean to you?'

Exodus 13:14
In the future, when your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' you are to tell him, 'With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Deuteronomy 6:20, 21
In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances the LORD our God has commanded you?" . . .

Deuteronomy 11:19
Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Psalm 44:1
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in days of long ago.

Psalm 71:18
Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

Psalm 78:3-8
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us. . . .

Isaiah 38:19
The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.

Acts 2:39
This promise belongs to you and to your children and to all who are far off, to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself."

in time to come [heb] to-morrow

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
"Let this be a sign among you, so that when your children ask later, saying, 'What do these stones mean to you?'

King James Bible
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
so that this will be a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, 'What do these stones mean to you?'

International Standard Version
Let this serve as a sign among you, so that when your children ask in times to come, 'What do these stones mean to you,'

NET Bible
The stones will be a reminder to you. When your children ask someday, 'Why are these stones important to you?'
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