(A)Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits[a] in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.” Then Joshua said to the people, (B)“Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.” And Joshua said to the priests, (C)“Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 3:4 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

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