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OET (OET-LV) And_DOM two_plus ten the_stones the_these which they_had_taken from the_Yardēn Yəhōshūˊa he_set_up at_Gilgāl.
Twelve men from among the Israelites each took a stone from the middle of the Jordan River. With these stones Joshua built a monument to remind the Israelite people, and their descendants, about how God helped them cross the river.
Here are some other possible section headings:
Setting up memorial stones
Twelve memorial stones
A reminder that God brought them to the promised land
And there at Gilgal Joshua set up
Joshua set up at Gilgal as a monument
Joshua commanded the men to set up as a memorial at Gilgal
Joshua set up: It is likely that Joshua commanded the men to set up the stones. He probably did not do this himself. However, this is not certain. You may wish to rearrange the parts of this verse, for example:
The men who had carried the twelve rocks from the Jordan brought them to Joshua, and they made them into a monument (CEV)
Joshua had the men set up a memorial with the twelve stones that they had taken from the Jordan River and carried to Gilgal
the twelve stones
the twelve stones they carried with them
those twelve stones
the twelve stones: The phrase the twelve stones refers to the twelve stones that Joshua told the men to take out of the Jordan River.
they had taken from the Jordan.
that they took from the Jordan River.
which they carried from the Jordan River.
they had taken from the Jordan: The word they refers to the twelve men whom Joshua chose to take the stones from the middle of the river.
In this verse the object (the stones) comes first and the subject (Joshua) comes after the verb. This is a device used in the Hebrew language to emphasize the stones. If possible, use the natural grammar of your language to give emphasis to the stones.
4:19-20 The tenth day of the first month occurred a few days before Passover.
• Gilgal became an important worship center for early Israel. Although its location is uncertain, it was somewhere just east or northeast of Jericho. Its name (which means “wheel of a cart,” cp. Isa 28:28) implies that Joshua set the twelve stones in a circle (cp. study note on Josh 5:9).
OET (OET-LV) And_DOM two_plus ten the_stones the_these which they_had_taken from the_Yardēn Yəhōshūˊa he_set_up at_Gilgāl.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.