Josué 3

¹ And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came toWhich according to the Hebrews was in March, about 40 days after Moses' death.Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

² And it came to pass afterWhich was given to prepare food (Jos_1:11).three days, that the officers went through the host;

³ And commanded the people, saying, When ye see the Arke of the couenat of the Lord your God, and the Priestes of the Leuites bearing it, ye shall depart from your place, and goe after it.

⁴ Yet there shalbe a space betweene you and it, about two thousande cubites by measure: ye shall not come neere vnto it, that ye may knowe the way, by the which ye shall goe: for ye haue not gone this way in times past.

⁵ (Nowe Ioshua had saide vnto the people, Sanctifie your selues: for to morowe the Lord will doe wonders among you)

⁶ Also Ioshua spake vnto the Priestes, saying, Take vp the Arke of the couenant, and goe ouer before the people: so they tooke vp the Arke of the couenant, & went before the people.

⁷ Then the Lorde saide vnto Ioshua, This day will I begin to magnifie thee in the sight of all Israel, which shall knowe, that as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee.

⁸ And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand stillEven in the channel where the stream had run, (Jos_3:17)in Jordan.

⁹ Then Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, Come hither, and heare the wordes of the Lord your God.

¹⁰ And Joshua said,By this miracle in dividing the water.Hereby ye shall know that the living God [is] among you, and [that] he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

¹¹ Beholde, the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde of all the worlde passeth before you into Iorden.

¹² Now therefore take youWho would set up twelve stones in remembrance of the benefit.twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

¹³ And assoone as the soles of the feete of the Priestes (that beare the Arke of the Lorde God the Lorde of all the worlde) shall stay in the waters of Iorden, the waters of Iorden shall be cut off: for the waters that come from aboue, shall stande still vpon an heape.

¹⁴ Then when the people were departed from their tentes to goe ouer Iorden, the Priestes bearing the Arke of the Couenant, went before people.

¹⁵ And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all hisBecause the river was accustomed at this time to be full, the miracle is so much greater.banks all the time of harvest,)

¹⁶ Then the waters that came downe from aboue, stayed and rose vpon an heape and departed farre from the citie of Adam, that was beside Zaretan: but the waters that came downe towarde the Sea of the wildernes, euen the salt Sea, failed, and were cut off: so the people went right ouer against Iericho.

¹⁷ And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stoodEither tarrying till the people were past, or as some read, sure, as though they had been on dry land.firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.