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Pillar by Joshua, the Crossing of the Jordan River Joshua 4:1–9

When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua, / “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, / and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”

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Pillar by Joshua, the Crossing of the Jordan River Deuteronomy 27:2–6

And on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster. / Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you. / And when you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to coat them with plaster.

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Pillar by Joshua, the Crossing of the Jordan River Joshua 8:30

At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,

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