Hear the words of Yahweh

9Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “Come here and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”

10And Joshua said, “By this you will know that the living God is among you, and that he will surely drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.”

11Look, the ark of the covenant, the Lord of all the earth, is crossing ahead of you in the Jordan.

12Now take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from each tribe.

13And when the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters flowing down from above will be cut off in the Jordan, and they will stand in one heap.