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The .iiij. Chapter.
1 Twelue stones out of the chanell be erected for a signe of the drying of Iordane. 3 The Rubenites, the Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasse do go before their brethren armed. 19 Iordane commeth agayne, and fylleth the chanell.
[unspec A] 1 AND so when the peo∣ple were al gone * 1.1ouer Iordane (after ye Lord had spoken vnto Io∣suah, saying:
2 Take you twelue men out of the people, out of euery tribe a man,
3 And commaunde you them, saying: Take you hence out of the middes of Iordane [euen] out of the place where the priestes stoode in a redinesse, twelue stones, which ye shall take away with you, and leaue them in the (a) 1.2 lodgyng where you shall lodge this nyght)
4 Then Iosuah called the twelue men, which he had prepared of the chyldren of Israel, out of euery tribe a man.
5 And Iosuah sayde vnto them: Get you before the arke of the Lorde your God, euen through the middes of Ior∣dane, * 1.3 and take vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shoulder, accordyng vn∣to the number of the tribes of the chyl∣dren of Israel,
[unspec B] 6 That this may be a signe among you: That when your (b) 1.4 chyldren aske their fathers in tyme to come, saying, What [meane] these stones with you?
7 Ye maye aunswere them: howe that the waters of Iordane deuided at the presence of the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, (for when it went ouer Iordane, the waters of Iordane deui∣ded) And these stones are become a me∣moriall vnto the chyldren of Israel for euer.
8 And the chyldren of Israel dyd euen so as Iosuah commaunded, and toke vp twelue stones out of the middes of Iordane as the Lorde sayde vnto Iosuah, accordyng to the number of the tribes of the chyldren of Israel, and caryed them away with them vnto the place where they lodged, & layde them downe there.
9 And Iosuah set vp twelue c 1.5 stones in the middes of Iordane, in the place where the feete of the priestes whiche bare the arke of the testament stoode: and there haue they continued vnto this day.
10 For the priestes whiche bare the arke [unspec C] stoode in the middes of Iordane, vntyll all was finished that the Lorde com∣maunded Iosuah to saye vnto the peo∣ple, accordyng to all that Moyses char∣ged Iosuah: And the people hasted, & went ouer.
11 And when all the people were cleane passed ouer, the arke of the Lord went ouer also, and the priestes (d) 1.6 before the people.
12 * 1.7And the chyldren of Ruben, and the chyldren of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasse, went before the chyldren of Israel armed, as Moyses charged thē.
13 Euen fourtie thousande prepared for warre, went before the (e) 1.8 Lorde vnto battayl, through the plaine of Iericho.
14 * 1.9That day the Lorde magnified Io∣suah in the syght of all Israel: and they feared hym, as they feared Moyses all dayes of his lyfe.
15 And the Lorde spake vnto Iosuah, saying:
16 Commaunde the priestes that beare [unspec D] the f 1.10 arke of the testimonie to come vp out of Iordane.
17 Iosuah therefore commaunded the priestes, saying: Come ye vp out of Ior∣dane.
18 And when the priestes that bare the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, were come vp out of the middes of Ior∣dane, and assoone as the soles of the priestes feete were set on ye drie land, the waters of Iordane returned vnto their place, and went ouer all their bankes as they dyd before.
19 And the people came vp out of Ior∣dane the tenth [day] of the (g) 1.11 first mo∣neth, and pitched in Gilgal, euen in the east border of the citie Iericho.
20 And the twelue stones whiche they toke out of Iordane, dyd Iosuah pitch in Gilgal.
21 And he spake vnto the chyldren of Is∣rael, saying: If your chyldren aske their fathers in tyme to come, and saye: What [meane] these stones?
22 Ye shall shewe your chyldren, and say: Israel came ouer this Iordane on drye lande.