יהושע כ״ד:כ״ז-כ״ח

האבן הזאת תהיה בנו לעדה וגו'. הא אבנא הדא תהי לנא כתרין לוחי אבן קיימא ארי יתה עבדנא לסהדו ארי פתגמיא דכתיבין עלה מעין כל פתגמיא דה' דמליל עמנא וגם יש לפותרו כמשמעו, כי היא שמעה את הדברים אשר דברתי לכם בשליחותו של מקום:

Behold this stone will be witness against us, etc.²²The question is, how could the stone hear? Another problem: the verse states that it heard “all the words of Adonoy that He spoke to us,” and yet there is no mention of Adonoy having spoken to them. [Here Rashi quotes from Targum Yonasan]: This stone will be for us as the two stone tablets of the covenant,²³Yehoshua compared it to the two tablets of the Ten Commandments which were witness to the covenant at Mount Sinai, and are therefore always referred to as the לוּחוֹת הָעֵדוּת, the Tablets of Testimony. for we have made it for a witness,²⁴It would stand as a silent witness to the covenant they had made on that day. since the words written on it [the stone] are almost similar to all the words of God that He spoke to us. This verse can also be explained according to its plain meaning: for it [the stone] has heard the words that I have spoken to you, on behalf of the Omnipresent.