8. Now command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, “When you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, there take your stand.”
9. So Joshua said to the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord, your God.”
10. He continued: “By this you will know that there is a living God in your midst: he will certainly dispossess before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
11. The ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth will cross the Jordan before you.
12. Now choose twelve men, one from each of the tribes of Israel.
13. When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Lord of the whole earth, touch the waters of the Jordan, it will cease to flow; the water flowing down from upstream will halt in a single heap.”
14. The people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan, with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant ahead of them.