⁷ Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “This day I will begin exalting you in the sight^[a] of all Israel, that they may know that I was with Moses, and I will be with you. ⁸ You will command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘At the moment that you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you will stand still in the Jordan.’” ⁹ And Joshua said to the Israelites,^[b] “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”