16 and the water flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a mass that extended as far as[a] Adam, a city next to Zarethan. The water flowing downstream into the Sea of the Arabah(A) (the Dead Sea) was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 3:16 Alt Hb tradition reads mass at

12 Baana son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam;

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