And Yehoshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Yarden, he and all the children of Yisra᾽el, and spent the night there before they passed over.

And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the camp;

and they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall remove from your place, and go after it,

(yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near to it;) that you may know the way by which you must go: for you have not passed this way heretofore.

And Yehoshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

And Yehoshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take 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.

And the Lord said to Yehoshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Yisra᾽el, that they may know that, as I was with Moshe, so I will be with thee.

And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the water of the Yarden, you shall stand still in the Yarden.

And Yehoshua said to the children of Yisra᾽el, Come here, and hear the words of the Lord your God.

And Yehoshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Kena῾ani, and the Ḥitti, and the Ḥivvi, and the Perizzi, and Girgashi, and the Emori and the Yevusi.

Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Yarden.

Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Yisra᾽el, out of every tribe a man.

And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Yarden, that the waters of the Yarden shall be cut off, those waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in a heap.

And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Yarden, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;

and as they that bore the ark were come to the Yarden. And the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water, (for the Yarden overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest,)

that the waters which came down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Żaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the ῾Arava, the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over opposite Yeriĥo.

And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Yarden, and all Yisra᾽el passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over the Yarden.