Joshua 4
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Joshua 4:14-24

141On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; so that they 2revered him, just as they had 3revered Moses all the days of his life.

15Now the Lord said to 4Joshua, 16“Command the priests who carry 5the ark of the testimony that they come up from the Jordan.” 17So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.” 18It came about when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were 6lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks as before.

19Now the people came up from the Jordan on the 7tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho. 2089Those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up 10at Gilgal. 21He said to the sons of 11Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ 22then you shall inform your children, saying, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on 12dry ground.’ 23For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the Lord your God had done to the 13Red Sea, 14which He dried up before us until we had crossed; 24that 15all the peoples of the earth may know that the 16hand of the Lord is mighty, so that you may 1718fear the Lord your God 19forever.”

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Notes

  1. 1. Joshua 4:14 Josh 3:7 ↩
  2. 2. Joshua 4:14 Or feared ↩
  3. 3. Joshua 4:14 Or feared ↩
  4. 4. Joshua 4:15 Lit Joshua, saying ↩
  5. 5. Joshua 4:16 Ex 25:16 ↩
  6. 6. Joshua 4:18 Lit drawn out ↩
  7. 7. Joshua 4:19 Deut 1:3 ↩
  8. 8. Joshua 4:20 Lit these ↩
  9. 9. Joshua 4:20 Josh 4:8 ↩
  10. 10. Joshua 4:20 Josh 4:3, 8 ↩
  11. 11. Joshua 4:21 Lit Israel, saying, ↩
  12. 12. Joshua 4:22 Josh 3:17 ↩
  13. 13. Joshua 4:23 Lit Sea of Reeds ↩
  14. 14. Joshua 4:23 Ex 14:21 ↩
  15. 15. Joshua 4:24 1 Kin 8:42; 2 Kin 19:19; Ps 106:8 ↩
  16. 16. Joshua 4:24 Ex 15:16; 1 Chr 29:12; Ps 89:13 ↩
  17. 17. Joshua 4:24 Or reverence ↩
  18. 18. Joshua 4:24 Ex 14:31; Ps 76:7f; Jer 10:7 ↩
  19. 19. Joshua 4:24 Lit all the days ↩

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