Joshua 4:19-24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁹ The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.^{(A) 20} Those twelve stones that they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal,^{(B) 21} saying to the Israelites, “When your children ask their parents in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’^{(C) 22} then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel crossed over the Jordan here on dry ground.’^{(D) 23} For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea,^[a] which he dried up for us until we crossed over,^{(E) 24} so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty and so that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”^(F)