Joshua 4:15-24

15Now the Lord said to 1Joshua, 16“Command the priests who carry 2the 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 3lifted 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 4tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal, on the eastern edge of Jericho. 20As for 56those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set them up 7at Gilgal. 21And he said to the sons of 8Israel, “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 9dry 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 10Red Sea, 11which He dried up before us until we had crossed; 24so that 12all the peoples of the earth may know that the 13hand of the Lord is mighty, so that you may 1415fear the Lord your God 16forever.”