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18 And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.
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And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage as before.
19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.
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On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
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And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.
21 And he said to the people of Israel, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, 'What do these stones mean?'
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He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’
22 then you shall let your children know, 'Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.'
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tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,
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For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.
24 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty; that you may fear the LORD your God for ever."
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He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God.”
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