The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
The notation that the crossing took place on the tenth day of the first month (Joshua 4:19) is significant. It was exactly 40 years earlier, to the day, that God instructed Israel to prepare to depart from Egypt by setting apart the paschal lambs (Exodus 12:3).