A   And it fortuned, that whan the people. were all gone ^note ouer Iordan, the Lorde spake vnto Iosua, sayinge: Take you twelue men out of the people, out of euery trybe a man. And commaunde you them, sayinge: take you hence out of the myddes of Iordan (euen out of the place where the preastes stoode in a redynes) twelue (of the most hardest) stones, which ye shall take awaye with you, and leaue them in þe; place, where you shal lodge this night. And Iosua called the twelue men, which he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of euery trybe a man, and Iosua sayde vnto them: gett you before the arcke of the Lord youre God, euen thorow the myddes of Iord&abar; ^note and take vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shulder, according vnto the nombre of the trybes of the children of Israel, that this maye be a signe among you. That wh&ebar; youre childr&ebar; aske thier fathers in tyme to come, say&ibar;ge: what meane these stones with you? Ye maye answere them how that þe; waters of Iordan deuyded at the presence of the arcke of the appoyntement of the Lorde. For whan it went ouer Iordan, þe; waters of Iordan deuided: And these stones are become a memoriall vnto B    the children of Israel for euer.

And the children of Israel dyd euen so as Iosua commaunded, and toke vp ^note twelue stones out of the myddes of Iordan, as the Lorde sayde vnto Iosua, accordynge to þe; n&obar;bre of þe; tribes of the children of Israel, ∧ caryed them awaye with them vnto the place where they lodged, ∧ layed th&ebar; doune there. And Iosua set vp twelue stones also in the myddes of Iordan, in the place where the fete of the preastes which bare the arcke of the testament, stode. And there haue they c&obar;tinued vnto &lhand; this daye. For the preastes which bare þe; arcke stode in the myddes of Iordan, vntill all was finisshed that the Lorde c&obar;maunded Iosua to saye vnto the people, accord&ibar;g to all that Moses charged Iosua. And þe; people hasted, and w&ebar;t ouer. It fortuned also, that wh&abar; all the people were cleane ouer, C   þe; arke of þe; Lord went ouer also, ∧ þe; preastes before the people. ^noteAnd the childr&ebar; of Ruben, ∧ the children of Gad, ∧ halfe the tribe of Manasses went before the children of Israel armed, as Moses charged th&ebar;. Eu&ebar; fourty thousande prepared for warre, w&ebar;t before the Lorde vnto battell, thorow the playne of Iericho. ^noteThat daye the Lorde magnified Iosua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared &lhand; him, as they feared Moses all dayes of his lyfe.

And the Lord spake vnto Iosua, saying: c&obar;ma&ubar;de the preastes that beare the arcke of witnesse, to come vp out of Iordan. Iosua therfore c&obar;maunded þe; preastes, D   saying: Come ye vp out of Iordan, And when the preastes þt; bare the arcke of the apoyntm&ebar;t of the Lorde were come vp out of the myddes of Iordan, and as sone as the soales of the preastes fete were set on the drye l&abar;d, þe; waters of Iordan retourned agayne vnto their place, ∧ went ouer all their banckes, as they dyd before. And the people came vp out of Iordan the tenth daye of the fyrst moneth, and pitched in Gilgal, euen in the east border of the cyte Iericho.

And the twelue stones which they toke out of Iordan, did Iosua pitche in Gilgal And he spake vnto the children of Israel, saying: ^note Yf youre children aske their fathers in tyme to come, ∧ saye: what meane these stones? ye shal shewe youre childr&ebar;, ∧ saye: Israel came ouer this Iordan on drie l&abar;d. For the Lord youre God dryed vp the water of Iordan before you, vntill ye were gone ouer, as þe; Lorde youre God dyd þe; red see ^note which he dryed vp before vs, tyll we were gone ouer: that all the people of the worlde maye knowe þe; h&abar;de of þe; Lord, how myghtie it is, and that ye might feare the Lord youre God for euer.

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