13. About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the Lord to fight on the plains of Jericho.
14. That day the Lord brought honor to Joshua before all Israel. They respected him all his life, just as they had respected Moses.
15. The Lord told Joshua,
16. “Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan.”
17. So Joshua instructed the priests, “Come up from the Jordan!”
18. The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan, and as soon as they set foot on dry land, the water of the Jordan flowed again and returned to flood stage.
19. The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.