06:004:010 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over. 06:004:011 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. 06:004:012 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: 06:004:013 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho. 06:004:014 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. 06:004:015 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, 06:004:016 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. 06:004:017 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. 06:004:018 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before. 06:004:019 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. 06:004:020 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. 06:004:021 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? 06:004:022 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 06:004:023 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: 06:004:024 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever. 06:005:001 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. 06:005:002 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. 06:005:003 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.