12Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.


In Context

9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, |Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.|

10 Joshua said, |Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

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

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

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

14 It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,

Joshua 3:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Now then, choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12And now take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:12and now, take for you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man — one man for a tribe;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:12Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.