Joshua 4:17

Myles Coverdale Bible

So Iosua comaunded the prestes, & sayde: Come vp out of Iordane.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up from the Jordan.”

Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua therefore commanded the Kohanim, saying, Come up out of the Yarden.

King James Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.

Lexham English Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

English Standard Version
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

New Century Version
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

New English Translation
So Joshua instructed the priests, "Come up from the Jordan!"

Amplified Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out of the Jordan."

New American Standard Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ioshua therefore commanded the Priests, saying, Come ye vp out of Iorden.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

Complete Jewish Bible
So Y'hoshua ordered the cohanim, "Come up out of the Yarden!"

Darby Translation
And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come out of the Jordan River."

George Lamsa Translation
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.

Good News Translation
Joshua did so,

Literal Translation
And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, Rise out of the Jordan.

American Standard Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of the Jordan.

Bible in Basic English
So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iosuah therefore commaunded the priestes, saying: Come ye vp out of Iordane.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying: 'Come ye up out of the Jordan.'

King James Version (1611)
Ioshua therefore commaunded the Priests, saying, Come yee vp out of Iordan.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua charged the priests, saying, Go up out of Jordan.

English Revised Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.

Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up from the Jordan."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Josue comaundide to hem, and seide, Stie ye fro Jordan.

Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua commandeth the priests, saying, `Come ye up out of the Jordan.'

Update Bible Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.

Webster's Bible Translation
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.

World English Bible
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come you up out of the Jordan.

New King James Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

New Living Translation
So Joshua gave the command.

New Life Bible
So Joshua told the religious leaders to come up from the Jordan.

New Revised Standard
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, - Come ye up out of the Jordan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of the Jordan.

Revised Standard Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

THE MESSAGE
Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ As for ye prestes that bare ye Arke, they stode in the myddes of Iordane, vntyll all was perfourmed that the LORDE charged Iosua to saye vnto ye people acordinge as Moses gaue Iosua in commaundemet. The people also made haist, and wente ouer. ¹¹ Now whan all the people was gone ouer, the Arke of the LORDE wente ouer also, and the prestes wente before the people. ¹² And the Rubenites, & Gaddites, and ye halfe trybe of Manasse wente harnessed before the childre of Israel, like as Moses had sayde vnto the: ¹³ Aboute a fortye thousande men ready harnessed to the warre, wente before the LORDE to the battayll, vpon ye felde of Iericho. ¹⁴ In that daye the LORDE made Iosua greate in the sighte of all Israel: and like as they feared Moses, so stode they in awe of him, all his life longe. ¹⁵ And the LORDE sayde vnto Iosua: ¹⁶ Commaunde the prestes which beare the Arke of witnesse, that they come vp out of Iordane. ¹⁷ So Iosua comaunded the prestes, & sayde: Come vp out of Iordane. ¹⁸ And whan the prestes yt bare the Arke of the couenaut of ye LORDE were come out of Iordane, and trode with the soles of their fete vpon the drye londe, ye water of Iordane came agayne in to his place, and flowed (like as afore tyme) vpon all his banckes. ¹⁹ It was ye tenth daye of the first moneth, whan the people came vp out of Iordane: & they pitched their tentes in Gilgall vpon ye East syde of ye cite of Iericho.

Bible Verse Review
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Come ye up: Genesis 8:16-18, Daniel 3:26, Acts 16:23, Acts 16:35-39

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
And Abell brought also of the firstlinges of his shepe, and of ye fat of them. And the LORDE had respecte vnto Abell and to his offerynge:

Genesis 4:11
And now shalt thou be cursed vpon the earth, which hath opened hir mouth, and receaued thy brothers bloude of thine hande.

Genesis 5:18
Iared was an hundreth and two & sixtie yeare olde, and begat Henoch:

Genesis 5:22
and led a godly conuersacion thre hundreth yeares therafter, and begat sonnes & doughters.

Genesis 11:4
And sayde: Come, let vs buylde a cite & a tower, whose toppe maye reach vnto heaue, yt we maye make vs a name, afore we be scatred abrode in all londes.

2 Samuel 18:18
Absalom had set him vp a piler whyle he was yet alyue, which stode in the kynges valley, for he sayde: I haue no sonne, therfore shall this be a remembraunce of my name: and he called the piler after his owne name. And vnto this daie it is yet called Absaloms place.

Psalms 49:11
Loke what is in their houses, it cotinueth still: their dwellinge places endure from one generacion to another, & are called after their owne names vpon the earth,

Daniel 4:30
and sayde: This is the greate cite off Babilo, which I myself (with my power & strength) haue made a kynges courte, for the honoure off my magesty.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Joshua therefore commanded the priests,.... In obedience to the Lord, and sent them an order:

saying; as follows:

come ye up out of Jordan; from the midst of the river to the bank of it, which was properly an ascent.