13 In the presence of the Lord about forty thousand men ready for war crossed over to the plain near Jericho.
14 What the Lord did that day made the people of Israel consider Joshua a great man. They honored him all his life, just as they had honored Moses.
15 Then the Lord told Joshua
16 to command the priests carrying the Covenant Box to come up out of the Jordan.
17 Joshua did so,
18 and when the priests reached the riverbank, the river began flowing once more and flooded its banks again.
19 The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped at Gilgal, east of Jericho.