004:014 On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel;
and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days
of his life.
004:015 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
004:016 "Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony,
that they come up out of the Jordan."
004:017 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out
of the Jordan!"
004:018 It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh had come up out of the middle of the Jordan,
and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground,
that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place,
and went over all its banks, as before.
004:019 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day
of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east
border of Jericho.
004:020 Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of
the Jordan, n Gilgal.
004:021 He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, "When your
children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What do
these stones mean?'
004:022 Then you shall let your children know, saying, 'Israel came
over this Jordan on dry land.
004:023 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from
before you, until you had passed over, as Yahweh your God
did to the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}, which he dried up
from before us, until we had passed over;
004:024 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh,
that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.'"
005:001 It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond
the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites,
who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up
the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel,
until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was
there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
005:002 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make flint knives,
and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time."
005:003 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children
of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
005:004 This is the reason Joshua circumcised: all the people who came
out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war,
died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
005:005 For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all
the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they
came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
005:006 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness,
until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt,
were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh.
Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn't let them see the land