And Josue rose before
day-light, and removed
the camp: and they departed
from Setim, and came
-- --
to the Jordan, he, and all the
children of Israel, and they
abode there for three days.
2 After which, the heralds
went through the midst
of the camp,
3 And began to proclaim:
When you shall see the ark of
the covenant of the Lord your
God, and the priests of the
race of Levi carrying it, rise
you up also, and follow them
as they go before:
4 And let there be between
you and the ark the space of
two thousand cubits: that you
may see it a-far off, and know
which way you must go: for
you have not gone this way
before: and take care you
come not near the ark.
5 And Josue said to the
people: Be ye sanctified: for
to-morrow the Lord will do
wonders among you.
6 And he said to the
priests: Take up the ark of
the covenant, and go before
the people. And they obeyed
his commands, and took it
up and walked before them.
7 And the Lord said to
Josue: This day will I begin
to exalt thee before Israel:
that they may know that as
I was with Moses, so I am
with thee also.
8 And do thou command
the priests, that carry the ark
of the covenant, and say to
them: When you shall have
entered into part of the water
of the Jordan, stand in it.
9 And Josue said to the
children of Israel: Come hither
and hear the word of
the Lord your God.
10 And again he said: By
this you shall know that the
Lord the living God is in the
midst of you, and that he
shall destroy before your fight
the Chananite and the Hethite,
the Hevite and the Pherezite,
the Gergesite also and
the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite.
11 Behold the ark of the
covenant of the Lord of all
the earth shall go before you
into the Jordan.
12 Prepare ye twelve men
of the tribes of Israel, one of
every tribe.
13 And when the priests,
that carry the ark of the
Lord the God of the whole
earth, shall set the soles of
their feet in the waters of the
Jordan, the waters that are beneath,
shall run down and
go off: and those that come
from above, shall stand together
upon a heap.
14 So the people went out
of their tents, to pass over
the Jordan: and the priests,
that carried the ark of the covenant,
went on before them.
15 And as soon as they
came into the Jordan, and
their feet were dipped in part
of the water, (now the Jordan,
it being harvest time, had
filled the banks of its channel.)
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16 The waters that came
down from above stood in one
place, and swelling up like a
mountain, were seen a-far off
from the city that is called
Adom, to the place of Sarthan:
but those that were beneath,
ran down into the sea
of the wilderness, (which now
is called the dead sea) until
they wholly failed.
17 And the people marched
over-against Jericho: and the
priests that carried the ark of
the covenant of the Lord, stood
girded upon the dry ground
in the midst of the Jordan,
and all the people passed over
through the channel, that
was dried up.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
