12|When thepeople heardthe sound ofthe rams’God createdthe heavens15 The Lord had said to Joshua, 16 “Command the priests carrying the Ark of theCovenant to come up out of the riverbed.” 17 So Joshua gave the command. 18 Assoon as the priests carrying the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant came up out of theriverbed and their feet were on high ground, the water of the Jordan returnedand overflowed its banks as before.19 The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month. Then theycamped at Gilgal, just east of Jericho. 20 It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled upthe twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.21 Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future your children will ask, ‘Whatdo these stones mean?’ 22 Then you can tell them, ‘This is where the Israelitescrossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ 23 For the Lord your God dried up the riverright before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he didat the Red Sea when he dried it up until we had all crossed over.24He did this so all the nations of the earthmight know that the LORD’s handhorns,they shoutedas loud asis powerful,and so you might fearthe LORD your God forever.”they could.Suddenly,the wallsof Jerichocollapsed,and theIsraeliteschargedstraight intothe town andcaptured it.God created the heavensJos hua 6:205When all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kingswho lived along the Mediterranean coast heard how the Lord had driedup the Jordan River so the people of Israel could cross, they lost heart andwere paralyzed with fear because of them.Israel Reestablishes Covenant Ceremonies2 At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise this secondgeneration of Israelites.” 3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entiremale population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.4 Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough tofight in battle when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness. 5 Those who leftEgypt had all been circumcised, but none of those born after the Exodus, duringthe years in the wilderness, had been circumcised. 6 The Israelites had traveled inthe wilderness for forty years until all the men who were old enough to fight inbattle when they left Egypt had died. For they had disobeyed the Lord, and theLord vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us—a landflowing with milk and honey. 7 So Joshua circumcised their sons—those who hadgrown up to take their fathers’ places—for they had not been circumcised on theway to the Promised Land. 8 After all the males had been circumcised, they restedin the camp until they were healed.Then the LORD said to Joshua,9“Today I have rolled awaythe shame of your slavery in Egypt.”
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