# General Information: Joshua and Israel continue to do as Yahweh commanded. # they picked up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan This refers to the twelve men picking up stones from the middle of the Jordan River bed. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]]) # Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan These were twelve additional stones, not the stones that the twelve men carried from the river bed. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]]) # The memorial is there to this day This means the memorial was there to the day that the author was writing this book.