^{6 Ref} so that this is a sign in your midst, when your children ask hereafter, saying, What `are' these stones to you?

^{7 Ref} that ye have said to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off, at the presence of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; in its passing over into the Jordan were the waters of the Jordan cut off; and these stones have been for a memorial to the sons of Israel -- to the age.'