Josh.4
[1] And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto
Joshua, saying,
[2] Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
[3] And command ye
them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood
firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where
ye shall lodge this night.
[4] Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children
of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
[5] And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD
your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according
unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
[6] That this may be a sign among you, that when
your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
[7] Then ye shall
answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when
it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto
the children of Israel for ever.
[8] And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up
twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of
the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged,
and laid them down there.
[9] And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where
the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
[10] For
the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD
commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and
the people hasted and passed over.
[11] And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed
over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.
[12] And
the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed
before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
[13] About forty thousand prepared for war
passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
[14] On that day the LORD magnified
Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
[15]
And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
[16] Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony,
that they come up out of Jordan.
[17] Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out
of Jordan.
[18] And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD
were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry
land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
[19]
And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in
the east border of Jericho.
[20] And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch
in Gilgal.
[21] And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers
in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
[22] Then ye shall let your children know, saying,
Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
[23] For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan
from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried
up from before us, until we were gone over:
[24] That all the people of the earth might know the hand of
the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.
Josh.5
[1] And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward,
and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters
of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither
was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
[2] At that time the LORD said unto
Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
[3] And
Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
[4] And
this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males,
even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
[5] Now all the
people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way
as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
[6] For the children of Israel walked
forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were
consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would