Joshua 3:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ When the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were in front of the people.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the covenant being before the people;

Common English Bible

¹⁴ The people marched out from their tents to cross over the Jordan. The priests carrying the covenant chest were in front of the people.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And the people departed from their tents, so that they might cross the Jordan. And the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant were advancing before them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests, that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before them.

Joshua 3:14 Cross References

Psalm 132:8

Rise up, O Lord, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.

Jeremiah 3:16

And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says the Lord, they shall no longer say, “The ark of the covenant of the Lord.” It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed, nor shall another one be made.

Deuteronomy 31:26

“Take this book of the law and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; let it remain there as a witness against you.

Hebrews 9:4

In it stood the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which there were a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

Joshua 24:11

When you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, the citizens of Jericho fought against you, as well as the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I handed them over to you.

Joshua 3:3

and commanded the people, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place. Follow it,

Joshua 3:6

To the priests Joshua said, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass on in front of the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went in front of the people.

Joshua 6:6

So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord.”