12. Choose one man from each of the 12 tribes of Israel.
13. The priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of the whole earth, will stand in the water of the Jordan. Then the water flowing from upstream will stop and stand up like a dam.”
14. So they broke camp to cross the Jordan River. The priests who carried the ark of the promise went ahead of the people.
15. (The Jordan overflows all its banks during the harvest season.) When the priests who were carrying the ark came to the edge of the Jordan River and set foot in