Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Josue 4:9-15 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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: