Joshua 4:5-7

The Voice

Joshua: Go back into the Jordan riverbed to the covenant chest of the Eternal your God, and each carry a stone upon your shoulder, (twelve stones for the twelve tribes of the Israelites) ⁶ so that we may build a memorial of this day. Someday when your children ask you, “Why are these stones piled up here?” ⁷ you will tell them how the waters of the Jordan parted as the covenant chest of the Eternal One crossed the river, and these stones will fix that memory for the Israelites forever.