The people passed over in haste; 11and when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of Yahweh and the priests passed over before the people. 12The 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; 13about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before Yahweh for battle, to the plains of Jericho. 14On that day Yahweh 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. 15And Yahweh said to Joshua, 16"Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan." 17JOSHUA therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan." 18And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before. 19The 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. 20And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. 21And he said to the people of Israel, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, 'What do these stones mean? 22then you shall let your children know, 'Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.' 23For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over, 24so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of Yahweh is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God for ever."
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