Joshua 4:19

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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.

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Gilgal was Israel’s first camp in Canaan, east of Jericho, where they lodged after crossing the Jordan River. Its location marked the transition from wilderness wandering into the promised land, and it became the setting for the memorial stones commemorating God’s miraculous crossing.

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Joshua 4:19 mentions Gilgal, Jericho and Jordan.