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¹⁰For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hurried and passed over.

¹¹It happened, when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of Yahweh passed over, with the priests, in the presence of the people.

¹²The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them:

¹³about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

¹⁴On that day Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

¹⁵Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

¹⁶Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan.

¹⁷Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come you up out of the Jordan.

¹⁸It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests` feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.

¹⁹The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.

²⁰Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.

²¹He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

²²Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

²³For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you were passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over;

²⁴that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.