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Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way heretofore.
5
Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.
6
Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
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Yahweh said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
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You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.
9
Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.
10
Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
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Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
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Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
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It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.
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It happened, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people;