Devine Scripture

Joshua 3:12

Joshua chapter 3 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

Context

v.11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into the Jordan.

v.12This passage

v.13And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Joshua 4:9

    And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

  • Joshua 4:2

    Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

  • Joshua 4:4

    Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: