3. and they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God and the priests the Levites bearing it, then remove from your place, and go after it;
4. yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Ye shall not come near it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
5. And Joshua said to the people, Hallow yourselves; for to-morrow Jehovah will do wonders in your midst.
6. And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and go over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
7. And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee.
8. And thou shalt command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, stand still in the Jordan.
9. And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God
10. And Joshua said, Hereby shall ye know that the living ·God is in your midst, and that he will without fail dispossess from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
11. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into the Jordan.