⁷ Adonai said to Y’hoshua, “Starting today, I will make you great in full view of all Isra’el; so that they will know that just as I was with Moshe, so I will be with you. ⁸ Now you are to order the cohanim carrying the ark for the covenant as follows: ‘When you come to the edge of the Yarden River, you are to stop in the Yarden itself.’”

⁹ Y’hoshua said to the people of Isra’el, “Come here, and listen to the words of Adonai your God.”