1 When all the people were completely passed over Jordan, Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,
2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
3 And you command them, saying, You take from here, out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and you shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where you shall lodge this night.
4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
5 And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Jehovah your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
6 That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean you by these stones?
7 Then you shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel to the Kingdom Age.
8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as Jehovah spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.
10 For the priests who carried the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until everything was completed that Jehovah commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hurried and passed over.
11 When all the people were completely passed over, the ark of Jehovah passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.
12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them:
13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before Jehovah to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14 On that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they reverenced him, as they reverenced Moses, all the days of his life.
15 And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,
16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come you up out of Jordan.
18 When the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of Jehovah had come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry land, the waters of Jordan returned to their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the East border of Jericho.
20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
21 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?
22 Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
23 For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until you were passed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
24 That all the people of the Earth might know the hand of Jehovah, that it is mighty: that you might reverence Jehovah your God for a time.