My ignorance of the Bible came to the fore (for myself, once again!) as I read the first reading during the Mass today. It was the passage where the Israelites pass through the river Jordan on dry ground, with the ark of the covenant parting the waters! Just the same as the Isrealites were escaping the Egyptians passed through the Red Sea!
What surprised me was this instance of the people of Israel passing through the Jordan (river) on dry ground. I never before came across this passage!!! I was under the impression that the incident of the Red Sea was the only one of its kind. Now I know that the Israelites had made walking through water, without getting wet or drowned, a habit!
As I read this passage during the Mass, the meaning of the Psalm that we read for our morning (or evening?) prayers, where it says 'Jordan turned back on its course'. So that Psalm (no. 114) was referring to this incident. I had no clue!
Whew!
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