11. When all the people had passed over, the ark of the Lord and the priests went over in the presence of the people.
12. And the sons of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the [other] Israelites, as Moses had bidden them;
13. About 40,000 [of these] prepared for war passed over before the Lord to the plains of Jericho for battle.
14. On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him, as they stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.
15. And the Lord said to Joshua,
16. Order the priests bearing the ark of the Testimony to come up out of the Jordan.
17. So Joshua commanded the priests, Come up out of the Jordan.
18. And when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of their feet were lifted up to the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as they had before.
19. And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and encamped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.
20. And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan Joshua set up in Gilgal.
21. And he said to the Israelites, When your children ask their fathers in time to come, What do these stones mean?
22. You shall let your children know, Israel came over this Jordan on dry ground.
23. For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up for us until we passed over,
24. That all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty and that you may reverence and fear the Lord your God forever.