1 Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.
2 And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,
3 Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;
4 But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.
5 And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.
6 Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the agreement and go over in front of the people. So they took up the ark of the agreement and went in front of the people.
7 And the Lord said to Joshua, From now on I will give you glory in the eyes of all Israel, so that they may see that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
8 And you are to give orders to the priests who take up the ark of the agreement, and say, When you come to the edge of the waters of Jordan, go no further.
9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.
10 And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.
11 See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan.
12 So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.
13 And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass.
14 So when the people went out from their tents to go over Jordan, the priests who took up the ark of the agreement were in front of the people;
15 And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water (for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting),
16 Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.
17 And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.
1 约书亚清早起来， 和全体以色列人从什亭出发， 来到约旦河， 在那里住宿， 等候过河。
2 过了三天， 官长走遍营中，
3 吩咐人民说： "你们看见耶和华你们的 神的约柜， 又看见抬约柜的利未支派的祭司的时候， 就要从你们所住的地方出发， 跟在约柜后面走。
4 只是你们和约柜之间应有一段距离， 相隔约一公里， 不可走近约柜， 好使你们知道你们应走的路， 因为这条路你们以前没有走过。"
5 约书亚对人民说： "你们要自洁， 因为明天耶和华要在你们中间行奇事。"
6 约书亚又吩咐祭司说： "你们要抬起约柜， 在人民前面过河去。"于是他们抬起约柜， 走在人民的前面。
7 耶和华对约书亚说： "今天起， 我要使你在以色列众人眼中成为尊大， 这样他们就知道我怎样与摩西同在， 也必照样与你同在。
8 你要吩咐抬着约柜的祭司说： ‘你们到了约旦河水边的时候， 要站在约旦河中。’"
9 约书亚对以色列人说： "你们走近这里来， 聆听耶和华你们的 神的话。
10 约书亚说： "看哪， 全地之主的约柜必在你们前面过约旦河， 你们因此就知道永活的 神是在你们中间， 他必把迦南人、赫人、希未人、比利洗人、革迦撒人、亚摩利人和耶布斯人， 从你们面前驱逐出去。
12 现在你们要从以色列众支派中选十二个人， 每支派一人。
13 抬全地之主耶和华约柜的祭司的脚掌一踏进约旦河水里， 约旦河的水必被截断， 那从上游流下来的水必立起成垒。"
14 人民离开帐棚出发， 要过约旦河的时候， 抬约柜的祭司在人民的前面。
15 抬约柜的祭司来到约旦河， 他们的脚碰到水边的时候（原来约旦河水在收割的日子， 常是涨过两岸的），
16 水就停住了， 那从上游流下来的水立起成垒， 在很远的地方， 就是在撒拉但旁边的亚当城那里停住； 那往下流入亚拉巴海， 就是盐海的水完全被截断； 于是人民就在耶利哥的对面过了河。
17 抬耶和华约柜的祭司在约旦河中间的干地上站住， 等以色列众人都在干地上走过去， 直到全国的人都完全走过了约旦河为止。