About forty thousand battle-ready troops<n id="1" /> marched past the <sc>Lordsc> to fight<n id="2" /> on the plains of Jericho.<n id="3" />

And he told<n id="1" /> the army,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Move ahead<n id="3" /> and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

&#8220;Go through the camp and command the people, &#8216;Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is ready to hand over to you.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing.<n id="1" /> It piled up far upstream<n id="2" /> at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea).<n id="3" /> The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.<n id="4" />

Joshua told them, &#8220;Go in front of the ark of the <sc>Lordsc> your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.

<p class="bodytext">When Joshua gave the army its orders,<n id="1" /> the seven priests carrying the seven rams&#8217; horns before the <sc>Lordsc> moved ahead and blew the horns as the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> followed behind.

Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment!<n id="1" /> They have taken some of the riches;<n id="2" /> they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions.<n id="3" />

But if your own land<n id="1" /> is impure,<n id="2" /> cross over to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s own land,<n id="3" /> where the <sc>Lordsc> himself lives,<n id="4" /> and settle down among us.<n id="5" /> But don&#8217;t rebel against the <sc>Lordsc> or us<n id="6" /> by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the <sc>Lordsc> our God.