1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Joshua 4:5

And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your God to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your shoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,

Of Israel, who had twelve sons. The same expression occurs [in] Deuteronomy 32:8., and must be explained of the immediate sons of Jacob, without including those grandchildren who might be born before his death. (Haydock)