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Joshua 4
¹⁸ As soon as the priests carrying the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant came up out of the riverbed and their feet were on high ground, the water of the Jordan returned and overflowed its banks as before.
¹⁹ The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month. Then they camped at Gilgal, just east of Jericho.
²⁰ It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.
²¹ Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future your children will ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’
²² Then you can tell them, ‘This is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
²³ For the LORD your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did at the Red Sea when he dried it up until we had all crossed over.
²⁴ He did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the LORD’s hand is powerful, and so you might fear the LORD your God forever.”
Joshua 5
¹ When all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings who lived along the Mediterranean coast heard how the LORD had dried up the Jordan River so the people of Israel could cross, they lost heart and were paralyzed with fear because of them.
² At that time the LORD told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise this second generation of Israelites.”
³ So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
⁴ Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness.