Joshua 3

¹ JoshuaJoshua rose uprose up earlyearly in the morningmorning; and they moved from Shittim, and camecame to the JordanJordan, he and all the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael. They lodged there before they passedpassed over.

² It happenedhappened after threethree daysdays, that the officers went through the midst of the campcamp;

³ and they commandedcommanded the people, saying, "When you seesee the arkark of the covenant of YahwehYahweh your GodGod, and the priestspriests the Levites bearingbearing it, then you shall movemove from your placeplace, and followfollow it.

⁴ Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousandthousand cubits by measuremeasure. Don't come nearnear to it, that you may knowknow the wayway by which you must gogo; for you have not passedpassed this wayway before."

⁵ JoshuaJoshua saidsaid to the people, "SanctifySanctify yourselves; for tomorrowtomorrow YahwehYahweh will do wonders among you."

⁶ JoshuaJoshua spokespoke to the priestspriests, saying, "Take up the arkark of the covenant, and passpass over beforebefore the people." They took up the arkark of the covenant, and went beforewent before the people.

⁷ YahwehYahweh saidsaid to JoshuaJoshua, "TodayToday I will begin to magnify you in the sightsight of all IsraelIsrael, that they may knowknow that as I was with MosesMoses, so I will be with you.

⁸ You shall commandcommand the priestspriests who bearbear the arkark of the covenant, saying, 'When you comecome to the brink of the waters of the JordanJordan, you shall standstand still in the JordanJordan.'"

⁹ JoshuaJoshua saidsaid to the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael, "Come here, and hearhear the wordswords of YahwehYahweh your GodGod."

¹⁰ JoshuaJoshua saidsaid, "Hereby you shall knowknow that the livingliving God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the HittiteHittite, and the HiviteHivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from beforebefore you.

¹¹ Behold, the arkark of the covenant of the LordLord of all the earthearth passes over beforebefore you into the JordanJordan.

¹² Now therefore take twelve menmen out of the tribestribes of IsraelIsrael, for every tribe a manman.

¹³ It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feetsoles of the feet of the priestspriests who bearbear the arkark of YahwehYahweh, the Lordthe Lord of all the earthearth, rest in the waters of the JordanJordan, that the waters of the JordanJordan will be cut offcut off, even the waters that come downcome down from above; and they shall standstand in oneone heap."

¹⁴ It happenedhappened, when the people moved from their tentstents to passpass over the JordanJordan, the priestspriests who borebore the arkark of the covenant being beforebefore the people,

¹⁵ and when those who borebore the arkark had comecome to the JordanJordan, and the feetand the feet of the priestspriests who borebore the arkark had dipped in the edge of the waterwater (for the JordanJordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvestharvest),

¹⁶ that the waters which came downdown from above stoodstood, and rose uprose up in oneone heap, a great wayway off, at AdamAdam, the citycity that is beside Zarethan; and those that went downdown toward the seasea of the Arabah, even the SaltSalt seasea, were wholly cut offcut off. Then the people passedpassed over right against JerichoJericho.

¹⁷ The priestspriests who borebore the arkark of the covenant of YahwehYahweh stoodstood firm on dry grounddry ground in the middlemiddle of the JordanJordan; and all IsraelIsrael passedpassed over on dry grounddry ground, until all the nationnation had passedpassed completely over the JordanJordan.