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Joshua 4:16-21 New King James Version (NKJV)

16. “Command the priests who bear the ark of the Testimony to come up from the Jordan.”

17. Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.”

18. And it came to pass, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet touched the dry land, that 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 in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

20. And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.

21. Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’

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