Josh 3
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And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and departed from Sattin; and they came as
far as Jordan, and lodged there before they crossed over.
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And it came to pass after three days, that the scribes went through the camp;
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and they charged the people, saying, When you shall see the ark of the covenant of
the Lord our God, and our priests and the Levites bearing it, you shall depart from
your places, and you shall go after it.
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But let there be a distance between you and it; you shall stand as much as two thousand
cubits from it. Do not draw nigh to it, that you may know the way which you are to
go; for you have not gone the way Gr. from yesterday and the third day; A frequent Hebraism before.
5
And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, for to-morrow
the Lord will do wonders among you.
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And Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and go
before the people: and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and
went before the people.
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And the Lord said to Joshua, This day do I begin to exalt you before all the children
of Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you.
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And now charge the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, As soon as you
shall enter on a part of the water of Jordan, then you shall stand in Jordan.
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And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Gr. bring here, sc. yourselves Come here, and hearken to the word of the Lord our
God.
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Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and will utterly destroy from
before our face the Chananite, and the Chettite and Pherezite, and the Evite, and
the Amorite, and the Gergesite, and the Jebusite.
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Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over Jordan.
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Choose for yourselves twelve men of the sons of Israel, one of each tribe.
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And it shall come to pass, when the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the covenant
of the Lord of the whole earth rest in the water of Jordan, the water of Jordan below
shall fail, and the water coming down from above shall stop.
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And the people removed from their tents to cross over Jordan, and the priests bore
the ark of the covenant of the Lord before the people.
15
And when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord entered upon Jordan,
and the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were dipped
in part of the water of Jordan; (now Jordan overflowed Gr. its whole channel all its banks Gr. as on the days about the time
of wheat harvest:
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then the waters that came down from above stopped; there stood one solid heap very
far off, as far as Gr. a part the region of Kariathiarim, and Gr. that which came down the lower part came down to the sea
of Araba, the salt sea, till it completely failed;
and the people stood opposite Jericho.
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And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry land in
the midst of Jordan; and all the children of Israel went through on dry land, until
all the people had completely gone over Jordan.