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Joshua 4:6

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

That this may be a sign among you,.... A commemorative one:[that] when your children ask [their fathers] in time to come; or "tomorrow" and so in all time, or any time hereafter:saying, what mean you by these stones?

what is the reason of setting them up, and in this place, and being just of such a number? rxm aurion, Sept.

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