12. The Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh went in battle formation in front of the Israelites, as Moses had instructed them.
13. About 40,000 equipped for war crossed to the plains of Jericho in the Lord’s presence.
14. On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him throughout his life, as they had revered Moses.
15. The Lord told Joshua,
16. “Command the priests who carry the ark of the testimony to come up from the Jordan.”
17. So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up from the Jordan.”
18. When the priests carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant came up from the middle of the Jordan, and their feet stepped out on solid ground, the waters of the Jordan resumed their course, flowing over all the banks as before.
19. The people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and camped at Gilgal on the eastern limits of Jericho.
20. Then Joshua set up in Gilgal the 12 stones they had taken from the Jordan,
21. and he said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones? ’
22. you should tell your children, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’