7. The Lord said to Joshua, This day I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
8. You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.
9. Joshua said to the Israelites, Come near, hear the words of the Lord your God.
10. Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out from before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
11. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan!
12. So now take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
13. When the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord of all the earth shall rest in the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan coming down from above shall be cut off and they shall stand in one heap.
14. So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,
15. And when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were in the brink of the water–for the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest–