^3:1 And Joshua rose up early in the morning. And they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel and they lodged there before they passed over. ^3:2 And it happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp, ^3:3 and they commanded the people, saying, When you^* see the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your^* God and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you^* will move from your^* place and go after it.

    ^3:4 Only a space will be between you^* and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near to it, that you^* may know the way by which you^* must go, because you^* have not passed this way yesterday and the day before.

    ^3:5 And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, because tomorrow Jehovah will do wonders among you^*. ^3:6 And Joshua 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.

    ^3:7 And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day I will begin to make you great in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. ^3:8 And you will command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you^* have come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you^* will stand still in the Jordan.

    ^3:9 And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Come here and hear the words of Jehovah your^* God. ^3:10And Joshua said, You^* will know that the living God is among you^* by this and that he will without fail, drive out the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite from before you^*.

    ^3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you^* into the Jordan. ^3:12 Now therefore take for yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man for every tribe. ^3:13And it will happen, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, will rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above and they will stand in one heap.

    ^3:14 And it happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan– the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people– ^3:15 and when those who bore the ark came to the Jordan and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), ^3:16 that the waters which came down from above, stood and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were entirely cut off. And the people passed over right against Jericho.

    ^3:17 And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan and all Israel passed over on dry ground until all the nation had passed clean over the Jordan.