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Joshua 3:12

10 He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.

Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.

13 When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”

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

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
KJV
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
WEB
Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
ASV
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
DARBY
And now take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
BLB
And now take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel—one man—one man for a tribe.
ÅB
Så velg nå ut tolv menn av Israels stammer, én mann for hver stamme!
OTB
Velg nå ut tolv menn fra Israels stammer, én mann fra hver stamme.
B1930
Så velg nu ut tolv menn av Israels stammer, én mann for hver stamme!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Joshua 4:2

    “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,

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  • Joshua 4:4

    So Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe,

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  • Joshua 4:9

    Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

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