Bible Verses About The River Jordan: Division of its waters to let Israel pass over

Now choose yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Isra'el, one man for each tribe.

As soon as the cohanim carrying the ark of ADONAI, the Lord of all the earth, put the soles of their feet in the water of the Yarden, the water of the Yarden will be cut off upstream and stand piled up like an embankment."

So the people left their tents to cross the Yarden, with the cohanim carrying the ark for the covenant ahead of the people.

When those carrying the ark had come to the Yarden, and the cohanim carrying the ark had waded into the water (for throughout harvest season the Yarden overflows its banks),

the water upstream stood piled up like an embankment for a great distance at Adam, the city next to Tzartan; so that the water flowing downstream toward the Sea of the 'Aravah, the Dead Sea, was completely cut off; and the people crossed over right by Yericho.