1 ¶ And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, See also: Deuteronomy 27:2 Joshua 3:17
2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, See also: Joshua 3:12 Numbers 1:4-15 Numbers 13:2 Numbers 34:18 Deuteronomy 1:23
3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night. See also: Joshua 4:19-20 Joshua 3:13 Joshua 4:8 Genesis 28:22 Deuteronomy 27:1-26
4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: See also: Joshua 4:2 Mark 3:14-19
5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
6 That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? See also: Exodus 13:14 Joshua 4:21 Psalms 44:1 Deuteronomy 6:20-21 Deuteronomy 11:19
7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. See also: Exodus 12:14 Exodus 28:12 Numbers 16:40 Psalms 111:4 Joshua 3:13-16
8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. See also: Joshua 1:16-18 Joshua 4:2-5 Joshua 4:20
9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day. See also: 1 Samuel 7:12 Genesis 26:33 Genesis 28:18 Exodus 24:12 Exodus 28:21
10 ¶ For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over. See also: Joshua 3:13 Exodus 12:39 Numbers 27:21-23 Deuteronomy 31:9 Joshua 3:16-17
11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. See also: Joshua 3:8 Joshua 3:17 Joshua 4:18
12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: See also: Numbers 32:20-32 Joshua 1:14
13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho. See also: Ephesians 6:11 2 Kings 25:5 Jeremiah 39:5 Jeremiah 52:8 Joshua 5:10
14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. See also: Joshua 3:7 2 Chronicles 30:12 1 Kings 3:28 Joshua 1:16-18 Romans 13:4
15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. See also: Exodus 25:16-22 Joshua 3:3-6 Revelation 11:19
17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. See also: Genesis 8:16-18 Acts 16:23 Acts 16:35-39 Daniel 3:26
18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before. See also: Joshua 3:15 Exodus 14:26-28 Joshua 3:13 1 Chronicles 12:15 Isaiah 8:8
19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. See also: Joshua 5:9 Micah 6:5 Exodus 12:2-3 Joshua 10:6 Joshua 10:43
20 ¶ And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. See also: Joshua 4:3 Joshua 4:8
21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? See also: Joshua 4:6 Psalms 145:4-7 Psalms 105:2-5
22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. See also: Joshua 3:17 Isaiah 51:10 Exodus 14:29 Exodus 15:19 Psalms 66:5-6
23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: See also: Exodus 14:21 Isaiah 43:16 Isaiah 63:12-14 Nehemiah 9:11 Psalms 77:16-19
24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever. See also: Psalms 106:8 1 Kings 8:42-43 Psalms 89:13 Exodus 14:31 Exodus 15:16