[Josh 3] 1. Therefore Joshua, rising up by night, moved the camp; and, going out from Shittim, they came to the Jordan — he and all the sons of Israel — and they tarried there three days. 2. When these had elapsed, the heralds went through the middle of the camp, 3. and began to cry out: “When you shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the Levitical stock carrying it, you too rise up and follow [them] going before. 4. And let there be between you and the ark a space of two thousand cubits, that you may be able to see afar off, and to know by what way you may go in — because you have not walked by it before; and beware lest you approach the ark.” 5. And Joshua said to the people: “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” 6. And he said to the priests: “Take up the ark of the covenant, and go before the people.” And they, fulfilling the commands, took [it] up and walked before them. 7. And the Lord said to Joshua: “Today I will begin to exalt you before all Israel, that they may know that, just as I was with Moses, so I am also with you. 8. But do you command the priests who carry the ark of the covenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered part of the water of the Jordan, stand in it.” 9. And Joshua said to the sons of Israel: “Come here, and hear the word of the Lord your God.” 10. And again: “By this,” he said, “you shall know that the Lord, the living God, is in the midst of you, and [that] he will destroy before your sight the Canaanite and the Hittite, the Hivite and the Perizzite, the Girgashite too and the Jebusite, and the Amorite. 11. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you through the Jordan. 12. Prepare twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. 13. And when the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the God of all the earth, shall have set the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan, the waters which are below [downstream] shall run down and fail; but those which come from above shall stand together in one heap.” 14. Therefore the people went out from their tents, to cross the Jordan; and the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were going before it. 15. And when they had entered the Jordan, and their feet were dipped in part of the water — now the Jordan had filled the banks of its channel in the time of harvest — 16. the waters descending stood still in one place, and, swelling up like a mountain, appeared afar off from the city which is called Adam, as far as the place Zarethan; but those which were below [downstream] descended into the Sea of the wilderness (which is now called Dead), until they wholly failed. 17. But the people advanced against [toward] Jericho; and the priests who carried the ark of the covenant—
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[Josh 3] 17. —[the priests who carried the ark] of the covenant of the Lord stood upon the dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, girded [ready]; and all the people passed over through the dried-up channel.