And the priests who carried the Ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was completed that Jehovah had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. And the people hurried and crossed over.

And when all the people had completely crossed over, the Ark of Jehovah with the priests crossed over before the people.

And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over in battle array before the children of Israel, as Moses had told them to do;

About forty thousand equipped for war crossed over before Jehovah into the plains of Jericho for battle.

On that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him as they had revered Moses all the days of his life.

Then Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,

Command the priests who carry the Ark of the Testimony to come up out of the Jordan.

And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.

And when the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah came up out from the middle of the Jordan, when the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up onto the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went over all its banks as before.

And the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal, at the eastern edge of Jericho.

And those twelve stones, which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua erected in Gilgal.

And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean?

You shall let your children know, saying, On dry ground Israel crossed over this Jordan.

For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you crossed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we crossed over;

That all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Jehovah, that it is mighty; that you may fear Jehovah your God always.

Now when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel until they crossed over, their hearts melted, and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the children of Israel.

At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make knives of flint, and circumcise again the children of Israel a second time.

And Joshua made knives of flint and circumcised the children of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

And this is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Egypt.

Although all the people who came out were circumcised, all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way, after the others had come out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.