The Scriptures 1998

Joshua 4:15-23 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

15. And יהוה spoke to Yehoshua, saying,

16. “Command the priests who bear the ark of the Witness, and let them come up from the Yardĕn.”

17. And Yehoshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Yardĕn.”

18. And it came to be, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of יהוה had come from the midst of the Yardĕn, and the soles of the priests’ feet touched the dry land, that the waters of the Yardĕn returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as before.

19. And the people came up from the Yardĕn on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Yeriḥo.

20. And those twelve stones which they took out of the Yardĕn, Yehoshua set up in Gilgal.

21. And he said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’

22. then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Yisra’ĕl passed over this Yardĕn on dry land,’

23. for יהוה your Elohim dried up the waters of the Yardĕn before you until you had passed over, as יהוה your Elohim did to the Sea of Reeds, which He dried up before us until we had passed over,