8. You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.
9. Joshua said to the Israelites, Come near, hear the words of the Lord your God.
10. Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out from before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
11. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan!
12. So now take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.