8And 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.
9And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.
10And 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.
11See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan.
12So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.
13And 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.
14So 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;