Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future your children will ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’
“And in the future, your children will ask you, ‘What does all this mean?’ Then you will tell them, ‘With the power of his mighty hand, the Lord brought us out of Egypt, the place of our slavery.
It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.
Then you can tell them, ‘This is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
We will use these stones to build a memorial. In the future your children will ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’