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16 “Command the priests carrying the ark of the testimony[a] to come up[b] from the Jordan.” 17 So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.” 18 And it happened that when the priests carrying the ark came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet touched dry land,[c] the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as before.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 4:16 That is, the ark of the covenant
  2. Joshua 4:16 Literally “and let them come up”
  3. Joshua 4:18 Literally “were raised from the ground to dry land”

16 “Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant law(A) to come up out of the Jordan.”

17 So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up out of the Jordan.”

18 And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place(B) and ran at flood stage(C) as before.

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