Joshua 3

3And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed ^afrom Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. ²And it came to pass ^bafter three days, that ^cthe officers went through the host; ³And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and ^dthe priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. ^4eYet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way ^†heretofore. ⁵And Joshua said unto the people, ^fSanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you. ⁶And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, ^gTake up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

⁷And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to ^hmagnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, ⁱas I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. ⁸And thou shalt command ^jthe priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ^kye shall stand still in Jordan. ⁹And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God. ¹⁰And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that ^lthe living God is among you, and that he will without fail ^mdrive out from before you ⁿthe Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites. ¹¹Behold, the ark of the covenant of ^othe Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan. ¹²Now therefore ^ptake you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, ^qout of every tribe a man. ¹³And it shall come to pass, ^ras soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, ^othe Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they ^sshall stand upon an heap.

¹⁴And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ^tark of the covenant before the people; ¹⁵And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and ^uthe feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for ^xJordan overfloweth all his banks ^yall the time of harvest,) ¹⁶That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside ^zZaretan: and those that came down ^atoward the sea of the plain, even ^bthe salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho. ¹⁷And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, ^cand all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.