Quotes About Crossing

On rooftops overlooking each crossing, Cossacks had begun setting up machine guns.

There are things we find only at our lowest depths. The idea of wings and then wings themselves. An ocean worth crossing one dark mile at a time. The whole of the sky.

During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.

But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manassehís head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.

“If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”

Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?

They set out from Pi-hahiroth and crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

“Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered.” So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.

“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.

just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

And on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster.

And when you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to coat them with plaster.

“Go through the camp and tell the people, ëPrepare your provisions, for within three days you will cross the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.í”

So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.

When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,

you are to tell them, ëThe waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.í Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”

and after everyone had finished crossing, the priests with the ark of the LORD crossed in the sight of the people.

you are to tell them, ëIsrael crossed the Jordan on dry ground.í