Joshua 4:1–8

And when they were passed over, the Lord said to Josue:

²Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:

³And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night.

⁴And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the children of Israel, one out of every tribe,

⁵And 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,

⁶That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask you tomorrow, saying: What means these stones?

⁷You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over the same: therefore were these stones set for a monument of the children of Israel forever.

⁸The children of Israel therefore did as Josue commanded them, carrying out of the channel of the Jordan twelve stones, as the Lord had commanded him according to the number of the children of Israel unto the place wherein they camped, and there they set them.