Joshua 3
3:1And 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.
3:2And it came to pass after three days, that the scribes went through the camp.
3:3And 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!
3:4But 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. For you have not gone the way either yesterday or the third day before.
3:5And Joshua said to the people, Be sanctified by the morrow! for tomorrow the lord shall do wonders among you.
3:6And Joshua said to the priests, saying, Lift the ark of the covenant of the lord, and go before in front of the people! And the priests lifted the ark of the covenant of the lord, and they went in front of the people.
3:7And the lord said to Joshua, On this day I begin to raise you up high in front of all the sons of Israel, that they should know in so far as I was with Moses, so shall I also be with you.
3:8And 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.
3:9And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Lead forward here and hearken to the word of the lord your God!
3:10And Joshua said, In this you shall know that God is living 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.
3:11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the lord of all the earth passes over the Jordan before you.
3:12And now handpick for yourselves twelve men from the sons of Israel, one from each tribe!
3:13And it will be as whenever the feet of the priests 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.
3:14And it happened as the people 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.
3:15And as the priests 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 its entire bank as in days of harvest,
3:16and the waters stood going down from above, it stood as a bank of water in abstaining far off, very vehemently unto Adam the city, unto the part of Kirjath Jearim. And the part going down went down into the sea of Araba, the sea of salts, unto the end were it ceased. And the people stood before Jericho.
3:17And the priests stood, the ones lifting the ark of the covenant of the lord, upon dry land in the midst of the Jordan ready. And all the sons of Israel passed over through dry land, until of which time all the people completed passing over the Jordan.