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[Begin
Standard Episcopal Lectionary] The
people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the
first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border
of Jericho. Those twelve stones, which they had taken
out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal, saying to
the Israelites, "When your children ask their parents
in time to come, 'What do these stones mean?' then you
shall let your children know, 'Israel crossed over the
Jordan here on dry ground.' For the LORD your God dried
up the waters of the Jordan for you until you crossed
over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he
dried up for us until we crossed over, so that all the
peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD
is mighty, and so that you may fear the LORD your God
forever."
[Begin
RCL] The LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled
away from you the disgrace of Egypt." And so that
place is called Gilgal to this day.
While
the Israelites were camped in Gilgal they kept the passover
in the evening on the fourteenth day of the month in the
plains of Jericho. On the day after the passover, on that
very day, they ate the produce of the land, unleavened
cakes and parched grain. The manna ceased on the day
they ate the produce of the land, and the Israelites no
longer had manna; they ate the crops of the land of Canaan
that year.
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