Joshua:4

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* And when all the people were wholy gone ouer Iorden , (after the Lord had spoken vnto Ioshua , saying , * Take you twelue me out of the people , out of euery tribe a man , * And command ye them , saying , Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan , out of the place where the priests ' feet stood (note :)As in ( Jos_3:17 ).(:note ) firm , twelve stones , and ye shall carry them over with you , and leave them in the Meaning , the place where they would camp . lodging place , where ye shall lodge this night . * Then Ioshua called the twelue men , whome he had prepared of the children of Israel , out of euery tribe a man , * And Ioshua said vnto them , Go ouer before the Arke of the Lorde your God , euen through the middes of Iorden , and take vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shoulder acccording vnto the nomber of the tribes of the children of Israel , * That this may be a sign among you , [that ] when your (note :)God commands that not only we ourselves profit by this wonderful work , but that our posterity may know the cause of it , and glorify his Name .(:note ) children ask [their fathers ] in time to come , saying , What [mean ] ye by these stones ? * Then ye may answere them , That the waters of Iorden were cut off before the Arke of the couenant of the Lord : for when it passed through Iorden , the waters of Iorden were cut off : therefore these stones are a memoriall vnto the children of Israel for euer . * Then ye children of Israel did euen so as Ioshua had commanded , &amp ; tooke vp twelue stones out of the mids of Iorden as ye Lord had said vnto Ioshua , according to the nomber of the tribes of the children of Israel , &amp ; caried them away with them vnto the lodging , &amp ; layd them down there . * And Joshua set up (note :)Besides the twelve stones that were carried by the tribes and set up in Gilgal .(:note ) twelve stones in the midst of Jordan , in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood : and they are there unto this day . * So the Priests , which bare ye Arke , stoode in the middes of Iorden , vntill euery thing was finished that ye Lorde had comanded Ioshua to say vnto the people , according to all that Moses charged Ioshua : then the people hasted &amp ; went ouer . * And it came to pass , when all the people were clean passed over , that the ark of the LORD passed over , and the priests , (note :)Meaning , in the presence or sight of the people .(:note ) in the presence of the people . * And the sonnes of Reuben , &amp ; the sonnes of Gad , and halfe the tribe of Manasseh went ouer before the children of Israel armed , as Moses had charged them . * About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the (note :)That is , before the Ark .(:note ) LORD unto battle , to the plains of Jericho . * That day the Lord magnified Ioshua in the sight of all Israel , and they feared him , as they feared Moses all dayes of his life . * And the Lord spake vnto Ioshua , saying , * Command the priests that bear the (note :)Because the ark testified God 's presence , and the tables of the Law contained in it signified God 's will toward his people .(:note ) ark of the testimony , that they come up out of Jordan . * Ioshua therefore commanded the Priests , saying , Come ye vp out of Iorden . * And when the Priests that bare the Arke of the couenant of ye Lorde were come vp out of the middes of Iorden , and assoone as the soles of the Priests feete were set on the dry land , the waters of Iorde returned vnto their place , &amp ; flowed ouer all the bankes thereof , as they did before . * And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day ] of the (note :)Called Abib or Nisan , containing part of March and part of April .(:note ) first month , and encamped in Gilgal , in the east border of Jericho . * Also the twelue stones , which they tooke out of Iorden , did Ioshua pitch in Gilgal . * And he spake vnto ye childre of Israel , saying , When your children shall aske their fathers in time to come , &amp ; say , What meane these stones ? * Then ye shall shew your children , and say , Israel came ouer this Iorden on dry land : * For the Lord your God dryed vp ye waters of Iorden before you , vntill ye were gone ouer , as the Lord your God did the red Sea , which hee dryed vp before vs , till we were gone ouer , * That all the people of the (note :)God 's benefits serve as a further condemnation to the wicked , and stir up his own to reverence and obey him .(:note ) earth might know the hand of the LORD , that it [is ] mighty : that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever .

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