He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’
“In days to come, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.
tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’