Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Joshua 3:12
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Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
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Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
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Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
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Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
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Joshua 3
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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