16. "Command the priests to come up out of the Jordan River. They are carrying the ark where the tablets of the covenant are kept."
17. So Joshua gave a command to the priests. He said, "Come up out of the Jordan River."
18. Then the priests came up out of the river. They were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord. As soon as they stepped out on dry ground, the water of the Jordan began to flow again. It went over its banks, just as it had done before.
19. On the tenth day of the first month the people went up out of the Jordan River. They camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
20. Joshua set up the 12 stones at Gilgal. They were the ones the people had taken out of the Jordan.
21. Then he spoke to the people of Israel. He said, "In days to come, your children after you will ask their parents, 'What do these stones mean?'
22. Their parents must tell them, 'Israel went across the Jordan River on dry ground.'
23. The Lord your God dried up the Jordan for you until you had gone across it. He did to the Jordan River the same thing he had done to the Red Sea. He dried up the Red Sea ahead of us until we had gone across it.