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And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
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And they commanded the people,saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levitesbearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and goafter it.
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Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousandcubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this wayheretofore*.
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And Joshuaspake unto the priests,saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass overbefore the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and wentbefore the people.
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And the LORDsaid unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
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And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant,saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.
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And Joshuasaid, Hereby ye shall know that the livingGod is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
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And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon anheap.
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And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordanoverfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
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That the waters which came down from abovestood and rose up upon anheapveryfar from the cityAdam, that is besideZaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the saltsea,failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
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And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORDstoodfirm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passedcleanoverJordan.