And he said to the people of Israel, “In the future, when your children ask you what these stones mean,
In the future, when your son asks what this observance means, you will answer him, ‘By using great power the Lord brought us out of Egypt, the place where we were slaves.
There Joshua set up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan.
you will tell them about the time when Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.
These stones will remind the people of what the Lord has done. In the future, when your children ask what these stones mean to you,