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They camped there before crossing over. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>At the end of three days the officers went through the camp </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>and commanded the people, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God being carried by the levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place. Follow it, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>so that you may know the way you should go, for you have not passed this way before. Yet there shall be a space between you and it, a distance of about two thousand cubits; do not come any nearer to it.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Then Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will do wonders among you.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>To the priests Joshua said, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass on in front of the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went in front of the people.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so that they may know that I will be with you as I was with Moses. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>You are the one who shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, ‘When you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Joshua then said to the Israelites, “Draw near and hear the words of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Joshua said, “By this you shall know that among you is the living God who without fail will drive out from before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is going to pass before you into the Jordan. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>So now select twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>When the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan flowing from above shall be cut off; they shall stand in a single heap.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>When the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were in front of the people. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest. So when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the edge of the water, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>the waters flowing from above stood still, rising up in a single heap far off at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, while those flowing toward the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-5910a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> were wholly cut off. Then the people crossed over opposite Jericho. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>While all Israel were crossing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, until the entire nation finished crossing over the Jordan.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Joshua 3:16">Joshua 3:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>Salt Sea</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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