Book 06 : NEVIIM - JOSHUA - Chapter 003
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And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and they removed
from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and
they lodged there before they passed over
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And it came to pass after three days, that the officers
went through the midst of the camp
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and they commanded the people, saying: 'When ye see the ark
of the covenant of HaShem your G-d, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then
ye shall remove from your place, and go after it
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Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two
thousand cubits by measure; come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by
which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
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And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for
to-morrow HaShem will do wonders among you.
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And Joshua spoke unto the priests, saying: 'Take up the ark
of the covenant, and pass on before the people.' And they took up the ark of the
covenant, and went before the people
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And HaShem said unto Joshua: 'This day will I begin to
magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with
Moses, so I will be with thee
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And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the
covenant, saying: When ye are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, ye
shall stand still in the Jordan.
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And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'Come hither,
and hear the words of HaShem your G-d.
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And Joshua said: 'Hereby ye shall know that the living G-d
is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the
Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite
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Behold, the ark of the covenant of the L-rd of all the
earth passeth on before you over the Jordan
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Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of
Israel, for every tribe a man
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And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of
the priests that bear the ark of HaShem, the L-rd of all the earth, shall rest
in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off,
even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.
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And it came to pass, when the people removed from their
tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bore the ark of the covenant
being before the people
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and when they that bore the ark were come unto the Jordan,
and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the
water--for the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest-
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that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose
up in one heap, a great way off from Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and
those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were
wholly cut off; and the people passed over right against Jericho
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And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of
HaShem stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, while all Israel
passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the
Jordan
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