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Joshua

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1 And it came to pass, when all the peo­ple were clean passed over Jor­dan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, say­ing, 2 Take you twelve men out of the peo­ple, out of ev­ery tribe a man, 3 And com­mand ye them, say­ing, Take you hence out of the midst of Jor­dan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall car­ry them over with you, and leave them in the lodg­ing place, where ye shall lodge this night. 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had pre­pared of the chil­dren of Is­rael, out of ev­ery tribe a man: 5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over be­fore the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jor­dan, and take ye up ev­ery man of you a stone upon his shoul­der, ac­cord­ing unto the num­ber of the tribes of the chil­dren of Is­rael: 6 That this may be a sign among you, that when your chil­dren ask their fathers in time to come, say­ing, What mean ye by these stones? 7 Then ye shall an­swer them, That the wa­ters of Jor­dan were cut off be­fore the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jor­dan, the wa­ters of Jor­dan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memo­ri­al unto the chil­dren of Is­rael for ev­er. 8 And the chil­dren of Is­rael did so as Joshua com­mand­ed, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jor­dan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, ac­cord­ing to the num­ber of the tribes of the chil­dren of Is­rael, and car­ried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jor­dan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day. 10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jor­dan, un­til ev­ery thing was fin­ished that the LORD com­mand­ed Joshua to speak unto the peo­ple, ac­cord­ing to all that Moses com­mand­ed Joshua: and the peo­ple hast­ed and passed over. 11 And it came to pass, when all the peo­ple were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the pres­ence of the peo­ple. 12 And the chil­dren of Reuben, and the chil­dren of Gad, and half the tribe of Man­asseh, passed over armed be­fore the chil­dren of Is­rael, as Moses spake unto them: 13 About forty thou­sand pre­pared for war passed over be­fore the LORD unto bat­tle, to the plains of Jeri­cho. 14 On that day the LORD mag­ni­fied Joshua in the sight of all Is­rael; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. 15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, say­ing, 16 Com­mand the priests that bear the ark of the tes­ti­mo­ny, that they come up out of Jor­dan. 17 Joshua there­fore com­mand­ed the priests, say­ing, Come ye up out of Jor­dan. 18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jor­dan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lift­ed up unto the dry land, that the wa­ters of Jor­dan re­turned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did be­fore. 19 And the peo­ple came up out of Jor­dan on the tenth day of the first month, and en­camped in Gil­gal, in the east bor­der of Jeri­cho. 20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jor­dan, did Joshua pitch in Gil­gal. 21 And he spake unto the chil­dren of Is­rael, say­ing, When your chil­dren shall ask their fa­thers in time to come, say­ing, What mean these stones? 22 Then ye shall let your chil­dren know, say­ing, Is­rael came over this Jor­dan on dry land. 23 For the LORD your God dried up the wa­ters of Jor­dan from be­fore you, un­til ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from be­fore us, un­til we were gone over: 24 That all the peo­ple of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ev­er.