Joshua 3
1
And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and they
journey from Shittim, and come in unto the Jordan, he
and all the sons of Israel, and they lodge there before they pass over. 2 And
it cometh to pass, at the end of three days, that the authorities pass over
into the midst of the camp, 3 and command the people, saying, `When ye see the
ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing
it, then ye journey from your place, and have gone after it; 4 only, a distance
is between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; ye do not come
near unto it, so that ye know the way in which ye go, for ye have not passed
over in the way heretofore.' 5 And Joshua saith unto
the people, `Sanctify yourselves, for to-morrow doth Jehovah do in your midst
wonders.' 6 And Joshua speaketh unto the priests,
saying, `Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people;' and
they take up the ark of the covenant, and go before the people. 7 And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, `This day I begin to make thee great in
the eyes of all Israel, so that they know that as I was with Moses I am with
thee; 8 and thou, thou dost command the priests bearing the ark of the
covenant, saying, When ye come unto the extremity of the waters of the
Jordan--in the Jordan ye stand.' 9 And Joshua saith
unto the sons of Israel, `Come nigh hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your
God; 10 and Joshua saith, `By this ye know that the
living God [is] in your midst, and He doth certainly dispossess from before you
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and
the Perizzite, and the Girgashite,
and the Amorite, and the Jebusite: 11 lo, the ark of
the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into
Jordan; 12 and now, take for you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one
man--one man for a tribe; 13 and it hath been, at the resting of the soles of
the feet of the priests bearing the ark of Jehovah, Lord of all the earth, in
the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan are cut off--the waters
which are coming down from above--and they stand--one heap.' 14 And it cometh
to pass, in the journeying of the people from their tents to pass over the
Jordan, and of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,
15 and at those bearing the ark coming in unto the Jordan, and the feet of the
priests bearing the ark have been dipped in the extremity of the waters (and
the Jordan is full over all its banks all the days of harvest)--16 that the
waters stand; those coming down from above have risen--one heap, very far above
Adam the city, which [is] at the side of Zaretan; and
those going down by the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, have been completely
cut off; and the people have passed through over-against Jericho; 17 and the
priests bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stand on dry ground in the
midst of the Jordan--established, and all Israel are passing over on dry ground
till that all the nation hath completed to pass over the Jordan.