12 August 2021, General Week 19 - Thursday
MASS READINGS
FIRST LECTURE
"The ark of the Covenant of the Lord will pass over the Jordan before you"
Reading the Book of Joshua 3, 7-10a.11.13-17
In those days,
the Lord said to Joshua,
“Today
I will begin to make you grow up before all Israel,
so that they may know that I am with you
as I was with Moses.
You, you will give this order
to the priests who carry the ark of the Covenant:
“When you arrive at the edge of the Jordan,
you will stop in the bed of the river.” "
Joshua then said to the son of Israel:
" Come, listen to the words of the Lord your God.
By this you will know that the living God is in your midst,
and that He will bring you into possession of the land of the Canaanites,
behold the ark of the Covenant of the Lord of all the earth
will pass the Jordan in front of you.
As soon as the priests
who carry the ark of the Lord out of all the earth
have set the soles of their feet
in the waters of the Jordan,
the waters which are upstream will be cut off,
and they will stop forming a single mass. "
When the people broke camp to cross the Jordan,
the priests carrying the ark of the Covenant before the people.
However, the Jordan is full of banks
throughout the harvest season.
As soon as the priests who carried the ark
arrived at the Jordan, and their feet touched the water,
the waters stopped upstream
and stood up as one mass.
over a great distance,
from Adame, a neighboring town of Sartane;
and downstream the waters finished flowing
to the Araba Sea, the Dead Sea.
The people crossed over to Jericho.
The priests who carried the ark of the Covenant of the Lord
stood still on the dry land in the middle of the Jordan.
Then all Israel crossed on dry ground,
until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.
- Word of the Lord.
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