Joshua 3:4

3:4 But stay about three thousand feet behind it. ¹  Keep your distance ²  so you can see ³  which way you should go, for you have not traveled this way before.”

Joshua 3:16

3:16 the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. ⁴  It piled up far upstream ⁵  at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea). ⁶  The people crossed the river opposite Jericho. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in measurement.”

² tn Heb “do not approach it.”

³ tn Heb “know.”

⁴ tn Heb “the waters descending from above stood still.”

⁵ tn Heb “they stood in one pile very far away.”

⁶ tn Heb “the [waters] descending toward the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) were completely cut off.”

⁷ map For the location of Jericho see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.