²¹ The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

¹⁴ The twelve stones corresponded to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

⁹ Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle^[a] of the Jordan where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing. The stones are still there today.^(A)

²⁰ Then Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan,

³¹ Elijah took twelve stones – according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, ‘Israel will be your name’^(A) –