and they commanded the people, saying: When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord our God, and our priests and the Levites carrying it, then you shall set out from your places and go after it.
But let there be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits; you shall stand, do not draw near to it, that you may know the way by which you are to go it, for you have not traveled the way before.
And Joshua said to the priests: Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and go before the people. And the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and went in front of the people.
And the Lord said to Joshua: On this day I begin to exalt you before all the sons of Israel, that they may know that just as I was with Moses, so also will I be with you.
And now command the priests who carry the ark of the covenant, saying: When you come to the edge of the water of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.
By this you shall know that a living God is among you, and that destroying he will destroy from before us the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Amorite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.
And it shall be that when the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth come to rest in the water of the Jordan, the water of the Jordan shall fail, and the water coming down shall stand still.
And as the priests who carried the ark of the covenant came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord were dipped into the edge of the water of the Jordan — now the Jordan was filling all along its bank, as in the days of the wheat harvest —
then the waters that came down from above stood still; they stood as one solid mass, standing off exceedingly far, as far as the region of Kariathiarim; and the water going down went down into the sea of Araba, the sea of salt, until it completely failed. And the people stood opposite Jericho.
And the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the sons of Israel crossed over on dry ground until all the people finished crossing the Jordan.