16`Command the priests bearing the ark of the testimony, and they come up out of the Jordan.`
17And Joshua commandeth the priests, saying, `Come ye up out of the Jordan.`
18And it cometh to pass, in the coming up of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the midst of the Jordan -- the soles of the feet of the priests have been drawn up into the dry ground -- and the waters of the Jordan turn back to their place, and go as heretofore over all its banks.
19And the people have come up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and encamp in Gilgal, in the extremity east of Jericho;
20and these twelve stones, which they have taken out of the Jordan, hath Joshua raised up in Gilgal.
21And he speaketh unto the sons of Israel, saying, `When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones?
