Joshua 3:15 Cross References - NSB

¹⁵ As they carried the ark into the Jordan and the feet of the priests dipped into the water, for Jordan is at food stage at the time of harvest.

¹⁰ »Tell the Israelites: ‘When you come to the land I am going to give you and you harvest grain, bring a bundle of the first grain you harvest to the priest. ¹¹ »‘He will present it to Jehovah so that you will be accepted. He will present it on the day after Passover. ¹² »‘On the day you present the bundle, you must sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects as a burnt offering to Jehovah. ¹³ »‘Present a grain offering of four quarts of flour mixed with olive oil with it. This will be a sacrifice by fire made to Jehovah. It will be a soothing aroma. Use one quart of wine for the wine offering. ¹⁴ »‘Do not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this same day. Then bring the offering to your God. It is a long lasting law for generations to come wherever you live. ¹⁵ »‘Count seven full weeks from the day after Passover, the day you bring the bundle of grain as an offering presented to Jehovah ¹⁶ until the day after the seventh week. This is a total of fifty days. Then bring a new grain offering to Jehovah.

¹ »Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to Jehovah your God. It was in the month of Abib that Jehovah your God brought you out of Egypt by night. ² »Sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Jehovah chooses to establish his name. ³ »Do not eat leavened bread with it. Eat unleavened bread for seven days. It is the bread of affliction. You should remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt in haste. ⁴ »No leaven should be seen with you in all your territory for seven days. None of the flesh you sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall remain overnight until morning. ⁵ »You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your towns Jehovah your God is giving you. ⁶ »It must be at the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish his name. Sacrifice the Passover in the evening at sunset, at the time that you came out of Egypt. ⁷ »Cook and eat it in the place Jehovah your God chooses. In the morning you are to return to your tents. ⁸ »Eat unleavened bread for six days. On the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God. Do not do work on it. ⁹ »You shall count seven weeks for yourself. Count off seven weeks from the beginning of your grain harvest.

¹³ »As soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the Ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, set foot in the Jordan the waters of Jordan shall be cut off and they shall stand in a heap.«

¹⁸ When the priests that carried the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah were up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up onto the dry land that the waters of Jordan returned to their place, and flowed over all its banks, as they did before.

¹⁰ The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. ¹¹ After the Passover they ate the old corn of the land, unleavened cakes, and parched corn. ¹² The manna ceased the morning after they ate the old corn of the land. The children of Israel had no more manna. But they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

¹⁵ They crossed the Jordan River during its seasonal flooding at the beginning of the year and drove out all the people living in the lowlands on both the east and west banks.

⁶ »Feet trample it down, the feet of the depressed, the footsteps of the poor (needy).«

⁵ Jehovah says: »Jeremiah, if you get tired racing against people, how can you race against horses? If you cannot even stand up in open country, how will you manage in the thicket by the Jordan?«

¹⁹ »Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan River up to the green pastureland, I will come and make the Edomites run away suddenly from their country. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me?«