Joshua 4:8-18

Legacy Standard Bible

⁸ Thus the sons of Israel did as Joshua commanded and carried twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel; and they carried them over with them to ^(A)the lodging place and laid them down there. ⁹ But Joshua set up twelve ^(B)stones in the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing, and they are there to this day. ¹⁰ Now the priests who carried the ark were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything was completed that Yahweh had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. And the people hurried and crossed. ¹¹ And it happened when all the people had completed crossing, that the ark of Yahweh and the priests crossed before the people. ^12 (C)And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over in battle array before the sons of Israel, just as Moses had spoken to them; ¹³ about 40,000 equipped for war crossed for battle before Yahweh to the desert plains of Jericho.

^14 (D)On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel, so that they ^[a]feared him, just as they had ^[b]feared Moses all the days of his life.

¹⁵ Then Yahweh said to ^[c]Joshua, ¹⁶ “Command the priests who carry ^(E)the ark of the testimony that they come up from the Jordan.” ¹⁷ So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.” ¹⁸ So it happened when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh had come up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were ^[d]lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went over all its banks as before.