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Joshua 4:12

Verse 12 of 24. The 4th of 24 chapters in Joshua, in History.

8The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. They carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there.

9Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

10For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.

11When all the people had completely crossed over, the LORD’s ark crossed over with the priests in the presence of the people.

12The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.

13About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war, passed over before the LORD to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

14On 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.

15The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

16“Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of the Jordan.”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.