Joshua 4:10-18 ▼

10 And the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until the completion of all that YHWH had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. And the people hurried and passed over.

11 And it came to pass, when all the people had finished passing over, that the ark of YHWH and the priests passed over before the faces of the people.

12 And the men of Reuben, and the men of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the faces of the sons of Israel, as Moses had spoken to them.

13 About forty thousand armed ones of the host passed over before the face of YHWH for battle to the plains of Jericho.

14 On that day YHWH exalted Joshua in the eyes of all Israel, and they feared him as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life.

15 And YHWH spoke to Joshua, saying,

16 “Command the priests who bear the ark of the Testimony to come up from the Jordan.”

17 And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.”

18 And it came to pass, when had come the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of YHWH from the midst of the Jordan, the soles of the feet of the priests having touched unto the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed as yesterday and the day before yesterday, over all its banks,