Joshua 4:18-24

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁸ When the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan, as soon as the soles of their feet reached dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and it overflowed all its banks as before. ¹⁹ The people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and set up camp at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

²⁰ Those twelve stones that they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal. ²¹ He said to the people of Israel, “When your children in the future ask their fathers, ‘What are these stones?’ ²² you shall teach your children, ‘On dry land Israel crossed over this Jordan.’ ²³ For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan in front of you until you crossed over, just as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up in front of us until we had crossed over. ²⁴ He did this so that all the peoples of the earth would know that the hand of the Lord is strong, so that you would fear the Lord your God always.”