⁹ Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.

¹² Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.

² Yahweh's works are great, Pondered by all those who delight in them.

³ His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever.

⁴ He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.

⁹ The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day.

³¹ Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, Israel shall be your name.

³ and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day).

²⁵ It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

²⁶ The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name of it Luz, which is the name of it to this day.

²⁶ Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

⁶ He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day.

²¹ The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

¹² Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

¹⁸ Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

³³ He called it Shibah.{Shibah means "oath" or "seven."} Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba{Beersheba means "well of the oath" or "well of the seven"} to this day.