10. Joshua said, “By this you will know that the living God is in your midst, and he will certainly drive out the Canaanites from before you, and the Hittites, Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
11. Look! The ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is about to cross over ahead of you into the Jordan.
12. So then, take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
13. When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of Yahweh, Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off upstream, and they will stand still in one heap.