Chapter summary

After the nation finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord instructed Joshua to select twelve men, one from each tribe, to retrieve twelve stones from the middle of the river where the priests stood. The Israelites carried these stones to their campsite, while Joshua also erected twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan and later set up the twelve retrieved stones at Gilgal. Once the people and the armed troops of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had crossed, the priests carrying the ark came up from the river, and the waters of the Jordan returned to their normal flow. Joshua explained that the stones would serve as a permanent memorial for future generations to recount how the Lord dried up the Jordan for Israel.

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