He said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones mean?’
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19The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped at Gilgal, on the eastern edge of Jericho. 20And the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal. 21He said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22you are to tell them: Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground. 23For Yahweh your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as Yahweh your God did to the Reed Sea, which he dried up before us until we had crossed —
