²³ For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea^[a] when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.^{(A) 24} He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know^(B) that the hand of the Lord is powerful^(C) and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.^(D)”