10. For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.
11. When all the people had completely crossed over, Yahweh’s ark crossed over, with the priests, in the presence of the people.
12. The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.
13. About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14. On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
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?’