⁷ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off^(A) before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial^(B) to the people of Israel forever.”

⁸ So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones^(C) from the middle of the Jordan,^(D) according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the Lord had told Joshua;^(E) and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down. ⁹ Joshua set up the twelve stones^(F) that had been^[a] in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.^(G)