10. The priests carrying the ark stood in the Jordan riverbed until everything had been done that the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people, just as Moses had commanded Joshua. The people crossed over quickly,
11. and when all the people had completed the crossing, the ark of the Lord also crossed; and the priests were now in front of them.
12. The Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh, armed, marched in the vanguard of the Israelites, as Moses had ordered.
13. About forty thousand troops, equipped for battle, crossed over before the Lord to the plains of Jericho for war.
14. That day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and so during his whole life they feared him as they had feared Moses.
15. Then the Lord said to Joshua:
16. Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant to come up from the Jordan.
17. Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up from the Jordan,”
18. and when the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come up from the Jordan riverbed, as the soles of their feet regained the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan resumed their course and as before overflowed all its banks.
19. The people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and camped in Gilgal on the eastern limits of Jericho.
20. At Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been taken from the Jordan,
21. saying to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’
22. you shall inform them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan here on dry ground.’
23. For the Lord, your God, dried up the waters of the Jordan in front of you until you crossed over, just as the Lord, your God, had done at the Red Sea, drying it up in front of us until we crossed over,
24. in order that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, and that you may fear the Lord, your God, forever.”