You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear.”

Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working at his wheel.

“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”

You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; you are to have them set in gold filigree settings.

then the priest is to command that the stones that had the infection in them be pulled and thrown outside the city into an unclean place.

They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.

“If the infection returns and breaks out in the house after he has pulled out the stones, scraped the house, and it is replastered,

Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

So when you cross the Jordan you must erect on Mount Ebal these stones about which I am commanding you today, and you must cover them with plaster.

The stones will be a reminder to you. When your children ask someday, ‘Why are these stones important to you?’

He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’

There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses.

With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs of seed.

Then fire from the Lord fell from the sky. It consumed the offering, the wood, the stones, and the dirt, and licked up the water in the trench.

You are to put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron will bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial.

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.

The Lord gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

tell them how the water of the Jordan stopped flowing before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan stopped flowing. These stones will be a lasting memorial for the Israelites.”

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. It was there that the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.