3 and command them, saying, ‘Take up for yourselves from the very middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet stood motionless,+ twelve stones,+ and YOU must carry them over with YOU and deposit them in the lodging place+ in which you will lodge tonight.’”

8 Then E·liʹjah took his official garment+ and wrapped it up and struck the waters, and gradually they were divided this way and that way, so that both of them went across on the dry ground.+