Then he said to the sons of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
And it will be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘With a strong hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
And those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
then you shall make your children know, saying, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on dry land.’
in order that this would be a sign among you, so that when your children ask later, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’