Teach them to your children. Repeat them when you are at home and when you are away, when you are resting and when you are working.

When your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean?'

In the future, when your son asks what this observance means, you will answer him, 'By using great power the LORD brought us out of Egypt, the place where we were slaves.

These stones will remind the people of what the LORD has done. In the future, when your children ask what these stones mean to you,

you will tell them that the water of the Jordan stopped flowing when the LORD's Covenant Box crossed the river. These stones will always remind the people of Israel of what happened here."

And he said to the people of Israel, "In the future, when your children ask you what these stones mean,

Tell them that the LORD your God dried up the water of the Jordan for you until you had crossed, just as he dried up the Red Sea for us.

Teach children how they should live, and they will remember it all their life.