Twelve memorial stones

After all the people crossed the Jordan River, God told Joshua to choose one person from each of the twelve tribes. These people were to go back to where the priests stood in the middle of the riverbed and each carry one stone back to the shore on their shoulder. Joshua also set up twelve more stones in the Jordan River where the priests had stood. When the priests stepped out of the river and their feet touched the dry ground, the Jordan River water immediately flowed back as it had before, rising high above its banks. The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped at Gilgal. Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan at Gilgal, and told the Israelites: When your children in the future ask what these stones mean, tell them that the people of Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground, and that the LORD made the Jordan River water dry up before you. This was so that all peoples on earth would know the LORD's hand is powerful, and so that you would always fear the LORD your God.