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Joshua 3:12
Joshua 3:12 is verse 12 of Joshua chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
King James Version
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.
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Joshua 3:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.
12 Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
13 When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”
14 So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Joshua 4:2“Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,
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.