12The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them:
13about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14On that day Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
16Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan.
17Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come you up out of the Jordan.
18It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests` feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.
