When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the lord said to Joshua, take, twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man, and command them, take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priest's feet stood, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.

Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe, and Joshua said to them, pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, that this may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come, what do those stones mean to you?

Then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the lord, when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial to ever.

And the men of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, as the lord told Joshua.

They carried them over with them to the place where they lodge, and laid them down there. Joshua set up twelve stones amid the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priest bearing the ark of the covenant had stood, and they are there to this day.

For the priest who bore the ark stood amid the Jordan until everything was finished that the lord commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua.

The people passed over in haste, and when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the lord and the priest passed over before the people. The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had bidden them.

About forty thousand ready and armed for war passed over before the Lord for battle, to the plains of Jericho. On that day the lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him, as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.

The Lord said to Joshua, command the priest who bears the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan. Joshua, therefore, commanded the priest, to come up out of the Jordan.

When the priest bearing the ark of the covenant of the lord came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the ppriest'sfeet were lifted on the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.

The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.

He said to the people of Israel when your children ask their fathers in time to come, what do these stones mean?
Then you shall let your children know, Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.

For the lord, your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over, so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the lord is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.

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