Bible Verses About Stones: Memorial pillars of

And Jacob arising in the morning, took the stone which he had laid under his head, and set it up for a title, pouring oil upon the top of it.

And he called the name of the city Bethel, which before was called Luza.

And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

And I shall return prosperously to my father's house: the Lord shall be my God:

And this stone, which I have set up for a title, shall be called the house of God: and of all things that thou shalt give to me, I will offer tithes to thee.

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a title.

And he said to his brethren: Bring hither stones. And they, gathering stones together, made a heap, and they ate upon it.

And Laban called it, The witness heap; and Jacob, The hillock of testimony: each of them according to the propriety of his language.

And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.

If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.

And he said again to Jacob: Behold this heap, and the stone which I have set up between me and thee,

Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it thinking harm to me.

Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:

And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night.

And Joshua called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the children of Israel, one out of every tribe,

And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your God to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your shoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,

That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask you tomorrow, saying: What means these stones?

You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over the same: therefore were these stones set for a monument of the children of Israel forever.

The children of Israel therefore did as Joshua commanded them, carrying out of the channel of the Jordan twelve stones, as the Lord had commanded him according to the number of the children of Israel unto the place wherein they camped, and there they set them.

And Joshua put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark of the covenant: and they are there until this present day.

And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Joshua pitched in Galgal,

And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?

You shall teach them, and say: Israel passed over this Jordan through the dry channel,

The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight, until you passed over: