Joshua 4:4-6

Revised Geneva Translation

⁴ then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared from the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe.

⁵ And Joshua said to them, “Go over before the Ark of the LORD your God, through the midst of the Jordan. And every man take up for himself a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel.

⁶ “So that this may be a sign among you. So that when your children shall ask their fathers in times to come, saying, ‘What did you mean by these stones?’,