<p class="poetry">If the river rages,<n id="1" /> it is not disturbed,p> <p class="poetry">it is secure,<n id="2" /> though the Jordanp> <p class="poetry">should surge up to its mouth.p>

When the feet<n id="1" /> of the priests carrying the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>, the Ruler<n id="2" /> of the whole earth, touch<n id="3" /> the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

When the ones carrying the ark reached the Jordan and the feet of the priests carrying the ark touched the surface<n id="1" /> of the water &#8211; (the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest time)<n id="2" /> &#8211;

The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. All Israel crossed over on dry ground until the entire nation was on the other side.<n id="1" />p>

The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> came up from the middle of the Jordan, and as soon as they set foot on dry land,<n id="1" /> the water of the Jordan flowed again and returned to flood stage.<n id="2" />p>

Joshua prayed,<n id="1" /> &#8220;O, Master, <sc>Lordsc>! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us?

It included the valley of Beth Haram,<n id="1" /> Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, and the rest of the realm of King Sihon of Heshbon, the area east of the Jordan to the end of the Sea of Kinnereth.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan and built there, near the Jordan, an impressive altar.<n id="1" />

So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River.<n id="1" /> By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.p>

Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled<n id="1" /> toward the east.p> <p class="bodytext">So the relatives separated from each other.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">When they came to the threshing floor of Atad<n id="1" /> on the other side of the Jordan, they mourned there with very great and bitter sorrow.<n id="2" /> There Joseph observed a seven day period of mourning for his father.

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks<n id="1" /> of the Jordan.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the plains of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho.<n id="1" />

So they said, &#8220;If we have found favor in your sight,<n id="1" /> let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross<n id="2" /> the Jordan River.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the <sc>Lordsc> until he drives out his enemies from his presence

&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and tell them, &#8216;When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Then the border will continue down the Jordan River<n id="1" /> and its direction will be to the Salt Sea. This will be your land by its borders that surround it.&#8217;&#8221;p>

&#8220;Speak to the Israelites and tell them, &#8216;When you cross over the Jordan River<n id="1" /> into the land of Canaan,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must give three towns on this side of the Jordan, and you must give three towns in the land of Canaan; they must be towns of refuge.

<p class="bodytext">These are the commandments and the decisions that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded the Israelites through the authority<n id="1" /> of Moses, on the plains of Moab by the Jordan River<n id="2" /> opposite Jericho.<n id="3" />p>