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Joshua 3:12

Now select for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one per tribe.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Miracles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jordan, the River;   Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Miracle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Joshua the son of nun;   Miracles;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jericho;   Joshua;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jordan ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ark;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Lachish;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Hebrew Names Version
Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Yisra'el, for every tribe a man.
King James Version
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
Lexham English Bible
So then, take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
English Standard Version
Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.
New Century Version
Now choose twelve men from among you, one from each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Amplified Bible
"So now take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from each tribe.
New American Standard Bible
"Now then, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe therefore take from among you twelue men out of the tribes of Israel, out of euery tribe a man.
Legacy Standard Bible
So now, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Complete Jewish Bible
Now choose yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Isra'el, one man for each tribe.
Darby Translation
And now take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now choose twelve men, one from each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
Now therefore take twelve men from all the tribes of Israel, a man out of each tribe.
Good News Translation
Now choose twelve men, one from each of the tribes of Israel.
Literal Translation
And now, take for yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take now therfore twolue men out of ye trybes of Israel, out of euery trybe one.
American Standard Version
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
Bible in Basic English
So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe therfore take from among you twelue men out of the tribes of Israel, out of euery tribe a man.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
King James Version (1611)
Now therefore take yee twelue men out of the Tribes of Israel, out of euery Tribe a man.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Choose for yourselves twelve men of the sons of Israel, one of each tribe.
English Revised Version
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
Berean Standard Bible
Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Make ye redi twelue men of the twelue lynagis of Israel, bi ech lynage o man.
Young's Literal Translation
and now, take for you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man -- one man for a tribe;
Update Bible Version
Now therefore take for yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
World English Bible
Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
New King James Version
Now therefore, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from every tribe.
New Living Translation
Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
New Life Bible
Now choose twelve men from the families of Israel, one man for each family.
New Revised Standard
So now select twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, take you twelve men, out of the tribes of Israel, - one man severally for each tribe;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.
Revised Standard Version
Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now then, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.

Contextual Overview

7 The Lord told Joshua, "This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses. 8 Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, ‘When you reach the bank of the Jordan River, wade into the water.'" 9 Joshua told the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!" 10 Joshua continued, "This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites. 11 Look! The ark of the covenant of the Ruler of the whole earth is ready to enter the Jordan ahead of you. 12 Now select for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one per tribe. 13 When the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord , the Ruler of the whole earth, touch the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 4:2, Joshua 4:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 18:4 - three Matthew 19:28 - the twelve

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."
Genesis 2:20
So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam no companion who corresponded to him was found.
Genesis 2:22
Then the Lord God made a woman from the part he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."
Genesis 3:15
And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."
Genesis 3:20
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made garments from skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:24
When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.
Job 31:33
if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,
Proverbs 19:3
A person's folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore take ye twelve men,.... For what end and purpose is not mentioned. Abarbinel is of opinion, that they were chosen and appointed, that every man might pitch upon and take a place for his tribe to encamp in, when they came on the other side Jordan: whether this was Joshua's view or no is not certain; however, the use he made of these, thus provided by divine direction, is related Joshua 4:2;

and these were to be taken out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man; Levi not reckoned, having no part in the land; and so we find that tribe left out in other accounts, when there was a choice of twelve men out of each of the tribes, Numbers 13:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 3:12. Take you twelve menJoshua 4:2.


 
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