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16 the waters which were flowing down from above stopped and rose up in one mass a great distance away at [a]Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan. Those [waters] flowing downward toward the sea of the Arabah, the [b]Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed [the river] opposite Jericho.(A) 17 And while all [the people of] Israel crossed over on dry ground, the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan [riverbed], until all the nation had finished crossing over the Jordan.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 3:16 The city of Adam was located about sixteen miles up the river from Jericho.
  2. Joshua 3:16 I.e. Dead Sea.

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