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

then ye shall let your children know, saying, On dry land did Israel come over this Jordan;

then ye have caused your sons to know, saying, On dry land Israel passed over this Jordan;

Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.

Indicabitis filiis vestris dicendo, Per aridam transivit Israel Jordanem istum:

Then ye shall let your children know - The necessity of an early religious education is inculcated through the whole oracles of God. The parents who neglect it have an awful account to give to the Judge of quick and dead.

Then ye shall let your children know,.... The meaning of the erection of these stones, acquaint them with the whole history, the meaning of which they are designed to perpetuate:
saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land; and if they should ask how that could possibly be done, or if they did not, they were to inform them by what means it was brought about, as follows.