Joshua 4:22
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you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
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The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.