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Then Joshuaroseearly in the morning; and he and all the sons of Israelset out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and they lodgedtherebefore they crossed.
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and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God with the Leviticalpriestscarrying it, then you shall set out from your place and goafter it.
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"However, there shall be between you and it a distance of about 2,000cubits by measure. Do not comenear it, that you may know the way by which you shall go, for you have not passed this waybefore*."
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And Joshuaspoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant and crossoverahead of the people." So they took up the ark of the covenant and wentahead of the people.
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Now the LORDsaid to Joshua, "Thisday I will begin to exalt you in the sight of allIsrael, that they may know that just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you.
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"You shall, moreover, command the priests who are carrying the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.' "
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Joshuasaid, "By this you shall know that the livingGod is among you, and that He will assuredlydispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
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"It shall come about when the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cutoff, and the waters which are flowingdown from above* will stand in oneheap."
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and when those who carried the arkcame into the Jordan, and the feet of the priestscarrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordanoverflows*all its banksall the days of harvest ),
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the waters which were flowingdown from above*stood and rose up in oneheap, a greatdistance away at Adam, the city that is beside*Zarethan; and those which were flowingdowntoward the sea of the Arabah, the SaltSea, were completelycutoff. So the peoplecrossedoppositeJericho.
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And the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORDstoodfirm on dryground in the middle of the Jordan while allIsraelcrossed on dryground, until*all the nation had finishedcrossing the Jordan.