Joshua 22:28
For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.
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Joshua 22:28
For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.
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Joshua 22:27
But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.
Joshua 24:26
And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.
Joshua 24:27
And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
Genesis 31:44
Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.
Genesis 31:45
Then Jacob took a stone and put it up as a pillar.
Genesis 31:46
And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones.
Genesis 31:47
And the name Laban gave it was Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob gave it the name of Galeed.
Genesis 31:48
And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,
Genesis 31:49
And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings.
Genesis 31:50
If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.
Genesis 31:51
And Laban said, See these stones and this pillar which I have put between you and me;
Genesis 31:52
They will be witness that I will not go over these stones to you, and you will not go over these stones or this pillar to me, for any evil purpose.
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Joshua 4:6
So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?
Joshua 4:21
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?
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