9. Joshua said to the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God.
10. This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that he will certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites.
11. See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of you.
12. Now then, choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.