and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites,

So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the Lord had told Joshua; and they carried them over with them to their camp, where they put them down.

They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots—a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

The total number of towns for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, came to thirteen, together with their pasturelands.

The total number of towns of the Gershonite clans came to thirteen, together with their pasturelands.

The total number of towns allotted to the Merarite clans, who were the rest of the Levites, came to twelve.