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17 Iosuah therefore commaunded the priestes, saying: Come ye vp out of Iordane. 18 And when the priestes that bare the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, were come vp out of the middes of Iordane, and assoone as the soles of the priestes feete were set on ye drie land, the waters of Iordane returned vnto their place, and went ouer all their bankes as they dyd before. 19 And the people came vp out of Iordane the tenth day of the first moneth, and pitched in Gilgal, euen in the east border of the citie Iericho. 20 And the twelue stones whiche they toke out of Iordane, dyd Iosuah pitch in Gilgal. 21 And he spake vnto the chyldren of Israel, saying: If your chyldren aske their fathers in tyme to come, and saye: What meane these stones? 22 Ye shall shewe your chyldren, and say: Israel came ouer this Iordane on drye lande. 23 For the Lorde your God dried vp the water of Iordane before you, vntill ye were gone ouer, as ye Lorde your God dyd the red sea, which he dried vp before vs, tyll we were gone ouer. 24 That all the people of ye world may knowe the hande of the Lorde howe mightie it is, and that ye might feare the Lorde your God for euer. Joshua 4:17-24, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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