And the priests bearing the ark are standing in the midst of the Jordan till the completion of the whole thing which JEHOVAH commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua, and the people haste and pass over.
And it cometh to pass when all the people have completed to pass over, that the ark of JEHOVAH passeth over, and the priests, in the presence of the people;
and the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, pass over, by fifties, before the sons of Israel, as Moses had spoken unto them;
about forty thousand, armed ones of the host, passed over before JEHOVAH for battle, unto the plains of Jericho.
On that day hath JEHOVAH made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel, and they reverence him, as they reverenced Moses, all days of his life.
And JEHOVAH speaketh unto Joshua, saying,
‘Command the priests bearing the ark of the testimony, and they come up out of the Jordan.’
And Joshua commandeth the priests, saying, ‘Come ye up out of the Jordan.’
And it cometh to pass, in the coming up of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of JEHOVAH out of the midst of the Jordan — the soles of the feet of the priests have been drawn up into the dry ground — and the waters of the Jordan turn back to their place, and go as heretofore over all its banks.
And the people have come up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and encamp in Gilgal, in the extremity east of Jericho;
and these twelve stones, which they have taken out of the Jordan, hath Joshua raised up in Gilgal.
And he speaketh unto the sons of Israel, saying, ‘When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones?
then ye have caused your sons to know, saying, On dry land Israel passed over this Jordan;
because JEHOVAH your God dried up the waters of the Jordan at your presence, till your passing over, as JEHOVAH your God did to the Red Sea which He dried up at our presence till our passing over;
so that all the people of the land do know the hand of JEHOVAH that it [is] strong, so that ye have reverenced JEHOVAH your God all the days.’
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