Verse List for JOS 4:21

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator,Yehoshua (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Then Yehoshua told the Israelis, “In the future when your descendants ask why these boulders are here,

OET-LV And_he/it _said to the _people _of Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) to_say that they_will _ask children _of_your(pl) tomorrow DOM fathers _of_their to_say what are_the_stones the_these.

ULT And he spoke to the sons of Israel, saying, “When your sons ask their fathers tomorrow, saying, ‘What are these stones?’

UST Then Joshua said to the people of Israel, “In the future, when your descendants ask, ‘Why are these stones here?’

BSB & MSB Then [Joshua] said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

OEB He said to the Israelites, ‘When in the future your children ask what these stones mean,

WEBBE & WMBB He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’

NET He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’

LSV And he speaks to the sons of Israel, saying, “When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones?

FBV He told the Israelites, “When some day your children ask you their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’

T4T Joshua said to the Israeli people, “In the future, when your children and grandchildren ask, ‘◄What do these stones mean/Why are these stones here►?’,

LEB And he said to the _⌊Israelites_⌋,[fn] “When your children ask in the future _⌊their parents_⌋,[fn] ‘_⌊What is the meaning of these stones_⌋?’[fn]

BBE And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?

Moff He said to the Israelites, ”When your children in after days ask their fathers what these stones mean,

JPS And he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying: 'When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying: What mean these stones?

ASV And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

DRA And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers, tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?

YLT And he speaketh unto the sons of Israel, saying, 'When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones?

Drby And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children hereafter ask their fathers, saying, What [mean] these stones?

RV And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

SLT And he will say to the sons of Israel, saying, When your sons shall ask their fathers to-morrow, saying, What these stones?

Wbstr And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

KJB-1769 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?[fn]

KJB-1611 And he spake vnto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shal aske their fathers [fn]in time to come, saying, What meane these stones?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation and footnotes))

Bshps And he spake vnto the chyldren of Israel, saying: If your chyldren aske their fathers in tyme to come, and saye: What meane these stones?
(And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying: If your children ask their fathers in time to come, and say: What mean these stones?)

Gnva And he spake vnto ye childre of Israel, saying, When your children shall aske their fathers in time to come, and say, What meane these stones?
(And he spake unto ye/you_all children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, and say, What mean these stones?)

Cvdl & saide vnto the children of Israel: Whan youre children are their fathers herafter, & saie: What meane these stones?
(and said unto the children of Israel: When your(pl) children are their fathers hereafter, and say: What mean these stones?)

Wycl And he seide to the sones of Israel, Whanne youre sones schulen axe to morewe her fadris, and schulen seie to hem, What wolen these stoonys `to hem silf?
(And he said to the sons of Israel, When your(pl) sons should axe to morning her fathers, and should say to them, What woollen these stones to themself?)

Luth Und sprach zu den Kindern Israel: Wenn eure Kinder hernachmals ihre Väter fragen werden und sagen: Was sollen diese Steine?
(And spoke to/for the children Israel: When your(pl) children subsequently their/her fathers asks become and say: What should this/these stones?)

ClVg et dixit ad filios Israël: Quando interrogaverint filii vestri cras patres suos, et dixerint eis: Quid sibi volunt lapides isti?
(and he/she_said to children Israel: When interrogaverint children yours tomorrow fathers his_own, and they_said to_them: What to_himself they_want stones these?)

UHB וַ⁠יֹּ֛אמֶר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵ⁠אמֹ֑ר אֲשֶׁר֩ יִשְׁאָל֨וּ⁠ן בְּנֵי⁠כֶ֤ם מָחָר֙ אֶת־אֲבוֹתָ֣⁠ם לֵ⁠אמֹ֔ר מָ֖ה הָ⁠אֲבָנִ֥ים הָ⁠אֵֽלֶּה׃ ‡

BrLXX λέγων, ὅταν ἐρωτῶσιν ὑμᾶς οἱ υἱοι ὑμῶν λέγοντες, τί εἰσιν οἱ λίθοι οὗτοι;

BrTr saying, When your sons ask you, saying, What are these stones?