10. And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.
11. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes the Jordan before you.
12. Now, therefore, take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of each tribe a man.
13. And when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off; for the waters that come down from above shall stand in a heap.
14. And it came to pass when the people removed from their tents to pass the Jordan and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,
15. when those that bore the ark entered into the Jordan, as soon as the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brim of the water (for Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),