Joshua:3-4
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And Joshua rose early in the morning ;
and they removed from Shittim ,
and came to the Jordan ,
he and all the children of Israel ,
and lodged there before they passed over .
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And it came to pass at the end of three days ,
that the officers went through the camp ;
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and they commanded the people ,
saying ,
When ye see the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God ,
and the priests the Levites bearing it ,
then remove from your place ,
and go after it ;
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yet there shall be a distance between you and it ,
about two thousand cubits by measure .
Ye shall not come near it ,
that ye may know the way by which ye must go ;
for ye have not passed this way heretofore .
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And Joshua said to the people ,
Hallow yourselves ;
for to-morrow Jehovah will do wonders in your midst .
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And Joshua spoke to the priests ,
saying ,
Take up the ark of the covenant ,
and go over before the people .
And they took up the ark of the covenant ,
and went before the people .
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And Jehovah said to Joshua ,
This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel ,
that they may know that as I was with Moses ,
so will I be with thee .
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And thou shalt command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant ,
saying ,
When ye come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan ,
stand still in the Jordan .
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And Joshua said to the children of Israel ,
Come hither ,
and hear the words of Jehovah your God .
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And Joshua said ,
Hereby shall ye know that the living �
God is in your midst ,
and [
that ]
he will without fail dispossess from before you the Canaanites ,
and the Hittites ,
and the Hivites ,
and the Perizzites ,
and the Girgashites ,
and the Amorites ,
and the Jebusites .
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Behold ,
the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into the Jordan .
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And now take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel ,
one man for each tribe .
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And it shall come to pass ,
when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Jehovah ,
the Lord of all the earth ,
rest in the waters of the Jordan ,
the waters of the Jordan ,
the waters flowing down from above ,
shall be cut off ,
and shall stand up in a heap .
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And it came to pass when the people removed from their tents ,
to pass over the Jordan ,
that the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were before the people ;
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and when they that bore the ark were come to the Jordan ,
and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (
and the Jordan is full over all its banks throughout the days of harvest ),
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the waters which flowed down from above stood [
and ]
rose up in a heap ,
very far ,
by Adam ,
the city that is beside Zaretan ;
and those that flowed down towards the sea of the plain ,
the salt sea ,
were completely cut off .
And the people went over opposite to Jericho .
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And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan .
And all Israel went over on dry ground ,
until all the nation had completely gone over the Jordan .
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And it came to pass when the whole nation had completely gone over the Jordan ,
that Jehovah spoke to Joshua ,
saying ,
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Take you twelve men out of the people ,
one man out of every tribe ,
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and command them ,
saying ,
Take up hence out of the midst of the Jordan ,
from the place where the priests '
feet stood firm ,
twelve stones ,
and carry them over with you ,
and lay them down in the lodging-place where ye shall lodge this night .
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And Joshua called the twelve men ,
whom he had appointed of the children of Israel ,
a man out of every tribe ;
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and Joshua said to them ,
Pass before the ark of Jehovah your God into the midst of the Jordan ,
and lift up each of you a stone [
and put it ]
upon his shoulder ,
according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel ,
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that this may be a sign in your midst .
When your children ask hereafter ,
saying ,
What mean ye by these stones ?
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then ye shall say to them ,
That the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah ;
when it went through the Jordan ,
the waters of the Jordan were cut off .
And these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever .
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And the children of Israel did so ,
as Joshua had commanded ,
and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan ,
as Jehovah had spoken to Joshua ,
according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel ;
and they carried them over with them to the lodging-place ,
and laid them down there .
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And twelve stones did Joshua set up in the midst of the Jordan ,
in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant had stood firm ;
and they are there to this day .
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And the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan ,
until everything was finished that Jehovah had commanded Joshua to speak unto the people ,
according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua .
And the people hasted and passed over .
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And it came to pass ,
when all the people had completely gone over ,
that the ark of Jehovah went over ,
and the priests ,
in the presence of the people .
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And the children of Reuben ,
and the children of Gad ,
and the half tribe of Manasseh ,
went over in array before the children of Israel ,
as Moses had spoken to them .
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About forty thousand armed for military service passed over before Jehovah to the war ,
unto the plains of Jericho .
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On that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel ;
and they feared him ,
as they had feared Moses ,
all the days of his life .
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And Jehovah spoke to Joshua ,
saying ,
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Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony ,
that they come up out of the Jordan .
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And Joshua commanded the priests ,
saying ,
Come up out of the Jordan .
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And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah had come up out of the midst of the Jordan , [
when ]
the soles of the priests '
feet were lifted up on to the dry land ,
that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place ,
and they flowed as previously ,
over all its banks .
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And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month ,
and encamped in Gilgal ,
on the eastern extremity of Jericho .
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And those twelve stones which they had taken out of the Jordan did Joshua set up in Gilgal .
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And he spoke to the children of Israel ,
saying ,
When your children hereafter ask their fathers ,
saying ,
What [
mean ]
these stones ?
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then ye shall let your children know ,
saying ,
On dry land did Israel come over this Jordan ;
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because Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you ,
until ye had passed over ,
as Jehovah your God did to the Red sea ,
which he dried up from before us ,
until we had passed over ;
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that all peoples of the earth might know the hand of Jehovah ,
that it is mighty ;
that ye might fear Jehovah your God continually .
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And it came to pass when all the kings of the Amorites ,
who were beyond the Jordan westward ,
and all the kings of the Canaanites ,
who were by the sea ,
heard that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel ,
until they had passed over ,
that their heart melted ,
and there was no spirit in them any more ,
because of the children of Israel .