13. About forty thousand armed for fighting crossed over before the presence of Yahweh to the plains of Jericho for battle.
14. On that day Yahweh exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they respected him as they respected Moses all the days of his life.
15. Then Yahweh said to Joshua, saying,
16. “Command the priests carrying the ark of the testimony to come up from the Jordan.”
17. So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.”
18. And it happened that when the priests carrying the ark came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet touched dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as before.
19. And the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho.
20. And those twelve stones that they took from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
21. And he said to the Israelites, “When your children ask in the future their parents, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
22. you will let your children know by saying, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.’