15. Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
16. “Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan.”
17. Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan!”
18. When the priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet had been lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
19. The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
20. Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.
21. He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
22. Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
23. For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you had crossed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over;
24. that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’”