saying to the Israelites, “When your children ask their parents in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’
When in the future your child asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall answer, ‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
Those twelve stones that they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal,
then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel crossed over the Jordan here on dry ground.’
so that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’