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22 And you will tell them, “Israel crossed the Jordan here on dry ground.” 23 For the Eternal One, your God, dried up the waters of the Jordan until you crossed over (just as He held back the Red Sea for our parents until they crossed) 24 so that everyone on earth would know how powerful the Eternal is and so that you would reverence your God, the Eternal, forever.

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22 then you shall let your children know, saying, (A)‘Israel crossed over this Jordan on (B)dry land’; 23 for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, (C)which He dried up before us until we had crossed over, 24 (D)that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is (E)mighty, that you may (F)fear the Lord your God [a]forever.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 4:24 Lit. all days