Joshua 4:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, when it passed over the same: therefore were these atones set for a monument of the children of Israel for ever.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Take twelve men from among the people, one man out of every tribe,

American Standard Version (1901)

² Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

Common English Bible

² “Pick twelve men from the people, one man per tribe.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² "Choose twelve men, one from each tribe,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:

Joshua 4:2 Cross References

1 Kings 18:31

6 And when it was now time to offer the holocaust, Elias the prophet came near and said: O Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, shew this day that thou art the God of Israel, and I thy servant, and that according to thy commandment I have done all these things.

Numbers 13:2

Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

Numbers 34:18

3 Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of Manasses, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

Deuteronomy 1:23

8 Whither shall we go up? the messengers have terrified our hearts, saying: The multitude is very great, and taller than we: the cities are great, and walled up td the sky, we have seen the sons of the Enacims there.

Joshua 3:12

7 And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over through the channel that was dried up.

Joshua 4:3

The children of Israel therefore did as Josue commanded them, carrying out of the channel of the Jordan twelve stones, as the Lord had commanded him, according to the number of the children of Israel, unto the place wherein they camped, and there they set them.