Kamień – świadek przymierza w Sychem (Joz 24,1-28)
Stone – a Witness of the Covenant in Shechem (Joshua 24:1-28)

Summary/Abstract: Stones have always been used in the everyday life of people living in Canaan. They have also served as witnesses of important events in the history of the Chosen People, carrying within themselves a certain message for people, both for those times and to future generations. An example of one such witness is the great stone which Joshua had set up under an oak in Shechem on the occasion of the renewal of the covenant between God and the Israelites. The stone was to remind them about the miraculous interventions of Yahweh in the story of the Chosen People, about solemn declarations which they had vowed to God (mostly the resignation of the worship of foreign gods and abiding by the Law, which was to guarantee God’s blessing), and about the covenant made, or renewed, on that spot.

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