13 When the feet[a] of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of the whole earth, come to rest in the Jordan’s water, its water will be cut off. The water flowing downstream will stand up in a mass.”(A)

14 When the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant(B) ahead of the people. 15 Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season.(C) But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan, their feet touched the water at its edge 16 and the water flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a mass that extended as far as[b] Adam, a city next to Zarethan. The water flowing downstream into the Sea of the Arabah(D)—the Dead Sea—was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:13 Lit soles of the feet
  2. 3:16 Alt Hb tradition reads mass at

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