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14 So when the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan with the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant before the people, 15 and when those who were carrying the ark came up to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the ark were submerged at the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all of its banks throughout the time of harvest), 16 the waters which were flowing down from above stopped and rose up in one mass a great distance away at [a]Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan. Those [waters] flowing downward toward the sea of the Arabah, the [b]Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed [the river] opposite Jericho.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 3:16 The city of Adam was located about sixteen miles up the river from Jericho.
  2. Joshua 3:16 I.e. Dead Sea.

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