13. About forty thousand battle-ready men crossed over before the Lord for battle on the plains of Jericho.
14. On that day, the Lord honored Joshua in the sight of all Israel. They feared him as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life.
15. The Lord spoke to Joshua,
16. “Command the priests carrying the ark of the testimony: ‘Come up out of the Jordan!’ ”
17. So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up out of the Jordan!”
18. Then when the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan and the soles of the priests’ feet touched the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks as before.
19. Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped at Gilgal, on the eastern border of Jericho.
20. Joshua set up in Gilgal those twelve stones that they took from the Jordan.
21. He said to the children of Israel, “When your children someday ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’
22. then you shall explain to your children, ‘Israel crossed over the Jordan here on dry ground!’
23. For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea when He dried it up before us until we crossed over,