And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over the Yarden, that the Lord spoke to Yehoshua saying,

Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

and command them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of the Yarden, 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.

Then Yehoshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Yisra᾽el out of every tribe a man:

and Yehoshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Yarden, and take up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Yisra᾽el:

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?

then you shall answer them, That the waters of the Yarden were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over the Yarden, the waters of the Yarden were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Yisra᾽el forever.

And the children of Yisra᾽el did as Yehoshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Yarden, as the Lord spoke to Yehoshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Yisra᾽el, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

And Yehoshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Yarden, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.

For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Yarden, until every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Yehoshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moshe commanded Yehoshua: and the people hastened and passed over.

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the Lord passed over, and the priests, before the people.

And the children of Re᾽uven, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Menashshe, passed over armed before the children of Yisra᾽el, as Moshe spoke to them:

about forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the Lord to battle, to the plains of Yeriĥo.

On that day the Lord magnified Yehoshua in the sight of all Yisra᾽el; and they feared him, as they feared Moshe, all the days of his life.

And the Lord spoke to Yehoshua, saying,

Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Yarden.

Yehoshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Yarden.

And it came to pass, when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were come up out of the midst of the Yarden, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up to the dry land, that the waters of the Yarden returned to their place, and flowed over all its banks, as they did before.

And the people came up out of the Yarden on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Yeriĥo.

And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Yarden, did Yehoshua pitch in Gilgal.

And he spoke to the children of Yisra᾽el, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

Then you shall let your children know, saying, Yisra᾽el came over this Yarden on dry land.

For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Yarden from before you, until you were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Sea of Suf, which he dried up before us, until we were gone over:

that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that you might fear the Lord your God forever.