Holy Scripture
Joshua 4:18
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“After they had crossed over the Jordan, the waters returned to their place and overflowed all its banks as before. For the mystical Jordan also increases when the full number of the faithful enters in. Accordingly, we read, "Lift up your eyes and see that the fields are ripe for the harvest," and again, "The harvest i…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were gone up out of Jordan, and set their feet upon the land, that the water of Jordan returned impetuously to its place, and went as before over all its banks.
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16Charge the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of the testimony of the Lord, to go up out of Jordan.
17And Joshua charged the priests, saying, Go up out of Jordan.
— Joshua 4:18 —
19And the people went up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month; and the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal in the region eastward from Jericho.
20And Joshua set these twelve stones which he took out of Jordan, in Gilgal,