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and command them, saying, 'Take up for yourselves twelve*stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the placewhere the priests'feet are standingfirm, and carry them over with you and lay them down in the lodgingplacewhere you will lodgetonight.' "
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and Joshuasaid to them, "Crossagain to the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
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then you shall say to them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cutoffbefore* the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cutoff.' So thesestones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israelforever*."
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Thus the sons of Israeldid as Joshuacommanded, and took up twelve*stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as the LORDspoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the lodgingplace and put them downthere.
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Then Joshuaset up twelve*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 thisday.
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For the priests who carried the ark were standing in the middle of the Jordanuntileverything was completed that the LORD had commandedJoshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commandedJoshua. And the peoplehurried and crossed;
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The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe* of Manassehcrossedover in battlearraybefore the sons of Israel, just as Moses had spoken to them;
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It came about when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests'feet were lifted up to the dryground, that the waters of the Jordanreturned to their place, and wentoverall its banks as before.
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"For the LORD your Goddried up the waters of the Jordanbefore* you until you had crossed, just as the LORD your God had done to the Red*Sea, which He dried up before* us until we had crossed;