For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hurried and passed over.
"Thus, it is the amazing symbolism of these events, as we found so frequently in Exodus, that bears eloquent and indestructible testimony of the divine nature of this narrative.  It is beyond the power of any man who ever lived to have concocted a story like this, even if he had had one hundred prior sources to help him!  The hand of the infinite God is in every line of this sacred narrative!