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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">After three days the officers went throughout the camp, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">giving orders to the people: &#8220;When you see the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3,000 feet or about 900 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> between you and the ark; do not go near it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.3.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Joshua told the people, &#8220;Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do amazing things among you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.3.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Joshua said to the priests, &#8220;Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.&#8221; So they took it up and went ahead of them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.3.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua, &#8220;Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you as I was with Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Tell the priests who carry the ark of the covenant: &#8216;When you reach the edge of the Jordan&#8217;s waters, go and stand in the river.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.3.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Joshua said to the Israelites, &#8220;Come here and listen to the words of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that he will certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go into the Jordan ahead of you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now then, choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;the Lord of all the earth&#8212;set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.3.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water&#8217;s edge, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> stopped in the middle of the Jordan and stood on dry ground, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHP.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I can do all this through him who gives me strength.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHP.4.13"></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, &#8216;What do these stones mean?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.4.7"></span></div>
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