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chapter 3
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And
Josue rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they departed from Setim,
and came to the Jordan, he, and all the children of Israel, and they abode
there for three days.
2 After which, the heralds went through the midst of
the camp,
3 And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of
the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying
it, rise you up also, and follow them as they go before:
4 And let there be between you and the ark the space of
two thousand cubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way you must
go: for you have not gone this way before: and take care you come not near the
ark.
5 And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for
to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
6 And he said to the priests: Take up the ark of the
covenant, and go before the people. And they obeyed his commands, and took it
up and walked before them.
7 And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to
exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am
with thee also.
8 And do thou command the priests that carry the ark of
the covenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered into part of the
water of the Jordan, stand in it.
9 And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither
and hear the word of the Lord your God.
10 And again he said: By this you shall know that the
Lord the living God is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy before
your sight the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the Pherezite, the
Gergesite also and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite.
11 Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all
the earth shall go before you into the Jordan.
12 Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one
of every tribe.
13 And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord
the God of the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of
the Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and those
that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap.
14 So the people went out of their tents, to pass over
the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant. went on
before them.
15 And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their
feet were dipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time,
had filled the banks of its channel,)
16 The waters that came down from above stood in one
place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off from the city that
is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down
into the sea of the wilderness (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they
wholly failed.
17 And the people marched over against Jericho: and the
priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the
dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over through
the channel that was dried up.
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