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chapter 4
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when they were passed over, the Lord said to Josue:
2 Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:
3 And command them to take out of the midst of the
Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you
shall set in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this
night.
4 And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out
of the children of Israel, one out of every tribe,
5 And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord
your God to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on
your shoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,
6 That it may be a sign among you end when your
children shall ask you to morrow, saying: What mean these stones?
7 You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran
off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, when it passed over the same:
therefore were these atones set for a monument of the children of Israel for
ever.
8 The children of Israel therefore did as Josue
commanded them, carrying out of the channel of the Jordan twelve stones, as the
Lord had commanded him, according to the number of the children of Israel, unto
the place wherein they camped, and there they set them.
9 And Josue put other twelve stones in the midst of the
channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark of the
covenant: and they are there until this present day.
10 Now the priests that carried the ark, stood in the
midst of the Jordan till all things were accomplished which the Lord had
commanded Josue to speak to the people, and Moses had said to him. And the
people made haste and passed over.
11 And when they had all passed over, the ark also of
the Lord passed over, and the priests went before the people.
12 The children of Ruben also and Gad, and half the
tribe of Manasses, went armed before the children of Israel as Moses had
commanded them.
13 And forty thousand fighting men by their troops, and
bands, marched through the plains and fields of the city of Jericho.
14 In that day the Lord magnified Josue in the sight of
all Israel, that they should fear him, as they had feared Moses, while he
lived.
15 And he said to him:
16 Command the priests, that carry the ark of the
covenant, to come up out of the Jordan.
17 And he commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of the
Jordan.
18 And when they that carried the ark of the covenant
of the Lord, were come up, and began to tread on the dry ground, the waters
returned into the channel, and ran as they were wont before.
19 And the people came up out of the Jordan, the tenth
day of the first month, and camped in Galgal, over against the east side of the
city of Jericho.
20 And the twelve stones which they had taken out of
the channel of the Jordan, Josue pitched in Galgal,
21 And said to the children of Israel: When your
children shall ask their fathers, to morrow, and shall say to them: What mean
these stones?
22 You shall teach them and say: Israel passed over
this Jordan through the dry channel.
23 The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in
your sight, until you passed over:
24 As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried
up till we passed through :
25 That all the people of the earth may learn the most
mighty hand of the Lord, that you also may fear the Lord your God for ever.
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