1. And when they were passed over, the Lord said to Josue:
2. Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:
3. And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night.
4. And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the children of Israel, one out of every tribe,
5. And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your God to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your shoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,
6. That it may be a sign among you end when your children shall ask you to morrow, saying: What mean these stones?
7. You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, when it passed over the same: therefore were these atones set for a monument of the children of Israel for ever.