Joshua 4:1-7

Thomson(i) 1 And when all the people had entirely crossed the Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, 2 Take men from among the people, one from every tribe, 3 and give them orders. And you shall take up, out of the middle of the Jordan, twelve smooth stones, and carry them with you, and place them in your encampment, wherever you encamp to night. 4 So Joshua called out twelve men of eminent dignity from among the children of Israel, one from every tribe, 5 and said to them, Go on before me in the presence of the Lord, into the middle of the Jordan, and let every one take up thence a stone, and carry it on his shoulders, according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel; 6 that they may be to you an everlasting memorial; that when thy son shall hereafter ask thee, saying, What are these stones to us? 7 thou mayst explain them to thy son, and say, Because the river Jordan dried up at the presence of the Ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth, when it crossed it, therefore you shall have these stones for an everlasting memorial for the children of Israel.