⁶ to serve as a sign^(A) among you. In the future, when your children^(B) ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’^{(C) 7} tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off^(D) before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial^(E) to the people of Israel forever.”

⁸ So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones^(F) from the middle of the Jordan,^(G) according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the Lord had told Joshua;^(H) and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down.