1 Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim,
and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged
there before they passed over. 2 It happened after three days, that the
officers went through the midst of the camp; 3 and they commanded the
people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God,
and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall remove from your
place, and go after it. 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it,
about two thousand cubits by measure: don’t come near to it, that you
may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this
way heretofore. 5 Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for
tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you. 6 Joshua spoke to the priests,
saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people.
They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. 7 Yahweh
said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify you in the sight of all
Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying,
When you are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you
shall stand still in the Jordan. 9 Joshua said to the children of Israel,
Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God. 10 Joshua said, Hereby
you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will
without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and
the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the
Jebusite. 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth
passes over before you into the Jordan. 12 Now therefore take twelve men
out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. 13 It shall come to
pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh,
the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the
waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from
above; and they shall stand in one heap. 14 It happened, when the people
removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the
ark of the covenant being before the people; 15 and when those who bore
the ark were come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark
were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks
all the time of harvest,) 16 that the waters which came down from above
stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is
beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even
the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against
Jericho. 17 The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood
firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on
dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.
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