Textes liés sur Josué 4:5

When they were still in the Jordan, Joshua said to them, "For this purpose are you crossing to the Land: That you will dispossess its inhabitants, as it is said (Num. 33:52), 'And you shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the Land before you, and destroy them, etc.' And if you do not dispossess them (Num. 33:56), 'it shall be that as I planned to do to them, I will do to you.' And if you do not accept [this commandment], the waters will come and wash over you." When they were still in the Jordan, Joshua said to them, "And each man among you shall lift one stone onto your shoulders, corresponding to the number of tribes of the Children of Israel" (Josh. 4:5), "And you shall rest them, etc." (Josh. 4:3), "beneath the spot where the priests' feet [had stood]" (Josh. 4:9), as a sign for the children that their forefathers had crossed through the Jordan. When they were still in the Jordan, Joshua said to them (Josh. 4:3), "Pick up twelve stones for yourselves from here, within the Jordan, from beneath the spot where the priests' feet [had stood]." Rabbi Yehuda says, Rabbi Chalafta and Elazar ben Matya and Chananiah ben Chachinai (alt., "Chinai" (see Lieberman)) stood on the same stones, and weighed each and every one, [and found that] they each had a weight of forty seahs. From here you can estimate how much the grapes [taken back by the spies] weighed. And as soon as the last one who was among the Israelites ascended from the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, as it is said (Josh. 4:18), "And the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and they flowed like previous day and the day before that, over the entire riverbed." It turns out that Israel was on one side, and the Ark and its bearers were on one side, the Ark was carried by its bearers, and they brought it across the Jordan.