Joshua 3:12

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.”

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BSBPD

“Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and now, take for you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man--one man for a tribe;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Joshua 3:12 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 13:2“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
  2. Joshua 4:2“Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,
  3. Joshua 4:4So Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe,
  4. Joshua 4:9Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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