And Joshua rose early in the morning. And they departed from Shittin, and they came unto the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel. And they rested up there before passing over.
And it came to pass after three days, went through the camp.
And they gave charge to the people, saying, Whenever you should behold the ark of the covenant of the lord our God, and the priests, and the Levites lifting it, that you shall depart from your place and go after it!
But let there be a far space between you and that ark, as much as two thousand cubits! You shall stand you should not draw near it, that you should know the way which you go by it. not the way either yesterday third day before.
And Joshua said to the people, Be sanctified by the morrow! for tomorrow among
And Joshua said to the priests, saying, Lift the ark of the covenant of the lord, and go before in front of the people! And lifted the ark of the covenant of the lord, and they went in front of the people.
And to Joshua, On this day I begin to raise you up high in front of all of Israel, that they should know in so far as I was with Moses, so shall I also be with you.
And now give charge to the priests lifting the ark of the covenant! saying, As soon as you should enter upon a part of the water of the Jordan, then in the Jordan you shall stand.
And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Lead forward here and hearken to the word of the lord your God!
And Joshua said, In this you shall know that God among you, and by annihilating he will annihilate from our face the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the lord of all the earth passes over before
And now handpick for yourselves twelve men from the sons of Israel, one from each tribe!
And it will be as whenever shall rest of the ones lifting the ark of the covenant of the lord of all the earth in the water of the Jordan, the water of the Jordan shall fail, and the water going down shall stand from above as a heap.
And it happened as departed from out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan, that the priests lifted the ark of the covenant of the lord in front of the people.
And as entered lifting the ark of the covenant unto the Jordan, that the feet of the priests lifting the ark were dipped into a part of the water of the Jordan, and the Jordan filled up entire as in days of harvest,
and stood going down from above, it stood in abstaining far off, very vehemently unto Adam the city, unto of Kirjath Jearim. And the part going down went down into the sea of Araba, of salts, unto the end were it ceased. And the people stood before Jericho.
And stood the ones lifting the ark of the covenant of the lord, upon dry land in of the Jordan ready. And all the sons of Israel passed over through dry land, until of which time completed passing over the Jordan.