15 The lord had said to Joshua,
16 “Command the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant to come up out of the riverbed.”
17 So Joshua gave the command.
18 As soon as the priests carrying the Ark of the lord’s Covenant came up out of the riverbed and their feet were on high ground, the water of the Jordan returned and overflowed its banks as before.
19 The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month. Then they camped at Gilgal, just east of Jericho.
20 It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.
21 Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future your children will ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’