13 And it shall come to pass, (A)as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, (B)the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and they (C)shall stand as a heap.”

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13 And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the Lord—the Lord of all the earth(A)—set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream(B) will be cut off(C) and stand up in a heap.(D)

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16 that the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away [a]at Adam, the city that is beside (A)Zaretan. So the waters that went down (B)into the Sea of the Arabah, (C)the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 3:16 Qr., many mss. and vss. from Adam

16 the water from upstream stopped flowing.(A) It piled up in a heap(B) a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan,(C) while the water flowing down(D) to the Sea of the Arabah(E) (that is, the Dead Sea(F)) was completely cut off.(G) So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.(H)

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