06:004:003 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.
06:004:004 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom
he had prepared of the
children
of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
06:004:005 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before
the ark of the
lord
your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up
every
man
of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the
number
of the tribes of the children of Israel:
06:004:006 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?
06:004:007 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.
06:004:008 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.
06:004:009 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.
06:004:010 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.
06:004:011 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.
06:004:012 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:
06:004:013 About forty thousand prepared for war passed
over before the
lord
unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
06:004:014 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.


