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Joshua 3 Young's Literal Translation

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  • Individual translator
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Textus Receptus
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Very literal
  • 1898
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1 And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and they journey from Shittim, and come in unto the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they lodge there before they pass over. 2 And it cometh to pass, at the end of three days, that the authorities pass over into the midst of the camp, 3 and command the people, saying, 'When ye see the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then ye journey from your place, and have gone after it; 4 only, a distance is between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; ye do not come near unto it, so that ye know the way in which ye go, for ye have not passed over in the way heretofore.' 5 And Joshua saith unto the people, 'Sanctify yourselves, for to-morrow doth Jehovah do in your midst wonders.' 6 And Joshua speaketh unto the priests, saying, 'Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people;' and they take up the ark of the covenant, and go before the people. 7 And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'This day I begin to make thee great in the eyes of all Israel, so that they know that as I was with Moses I am with thee; 8 and thou, thou dost command the priests bearing the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye come unto the extremity of the waters of the Jordan — in the Jordan ye stand.' 9 And Joshua saith unto the sons of Israel, 'Come nigh hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God; 10 and Joshua saith, 'By this ye know that the living God [is] in your midst, and He doth certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite: 11 lo, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into Jordan; 12 and now, take for you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man — one man for a tribe; 13 and it hath been, at the resting of the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of Jehovah, Lord of all the earth, in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan are cut off — the waters which are coming down from above — and they stand — one heap.' 14 And it cometh to pass, in the journeying of the people from their tents to pass over the Jordan, and of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people, 15 and at those bearing the ark coming in unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark have been dipped in the extremity of the waters (and the Jordan is full over all its banks all the days of harvest) — 16 that the waters stand; those coming down from above have risen — one heap, very far above Adam the city, which [is] at the side of Zaretan; and those going down by the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, have been completely cut off; and the people have passed through over-against Jericho; 17 and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stand on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan — established, and all Israel are passing over on dry ground till that all the nation hath completed to pass over the Jordan.

Cross references (17)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Joshua 2:1; Mark 1:35; Genesis 22:3; Jeremiah 7:13; Numbers 25:1
  2. 2 Joshua 1:10–11
  3. 3 Deuteronomy 31:9; 2 Samuel 6:13; Exodus 13:21–22; Numbers 10:33; Joshua 3:8
  4. 4 Psalm 89:7; Exodus 3:5; Hebrews 12:28–29; Exodus 19:12; 1 Chronicles 11:2
  5. 5 Leviticus 20:7; Joshua 7:13; 1 Samuel 16:5; Joel 2:16; John 17:19
  6. 6 Numbers 10:33; John 14:2–3; Joshua 3:3; Micah 2:13; Numbers 14:15
  7. 7 Joshua 4:14; Joshua 1:5; 1 Chronicles 29:25; 2 Chronicles 1:1; Psalm 18:35
  8. 8 Joshua 3:3; Joshua 3:17; 2 Chronicles 31:9–10; 2 Chronicles 35:2–6; 2 Chronicles 29:27
  9. 9 Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 12:8
  10. 10 Deuteronomy 7:1; Exodus 33:2; Psalm 44:2–3; Hebrews 10:31; 1 Samuel 17:26
  11. 11 Zechariah 6:5; Psalm 24:1; Zechariah 4:14; Joshua 3:13; Micah 4:13
  12. 12 Joshua 4:2; Joshua 4:4; Joshua 4:9
  13. 13 Exodus 15:8; Psalm 78:13; Joshua 3:11; Joshua 3:15–16; Psalm 33:7
  14. 14 Acts 7:44–45; Psalm 132:8; Joshua 3:3; Hebrews 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:24–25
  15. 15 1 Chronicles 12:15; Jeremiah 12:5; Jeremiah 49:19; Joshua 3:13; Joshua 4:18
  16. 16 Joshua 3:13; 1 Kings 4:12; 1 Kings 7:46; Genesis 14:3; Deuteronomy 1:1
  17. 17 Exodus 14:29; Exodus 14:22; Psalm 66:6; Isaiah 25:8; 2 Kings 2:8

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 3:15–17 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXIV)

    … when touched by the feet of the priests who bore the Ark, stood still from above with bridled stream, while it flowed down from below, where it ran on into the sea, until the whole people passed over, the priests standing on the dry ground. We know these things, but yet we should not imagine in this Psalm, to which …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)