Joshua 4:17

Bishop's Bible

Iosuah therefore commaunded the priestes, saying: Come ye vp out of Iordane.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up from the Jordan.”

Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua therefore commanded the Kohanim, saying, Come up out of the Yarden.

King James Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.

Lexham English Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

English Standard Version
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

New Century Version
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

New English Translation
So Joshua instructed the priests, "Come up from the Jordan!"

Amplified Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out of the Jordan."

New American Standard Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ioshua therefore commanded the Priests, saying, Come ye vp out of Iorden.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

Complete Jewish Bible
So Y'hoshua ordered the cohanim, "Come up out of the Yarden!"

Darby Translation
And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come out of the Jordan River."

George Lamsa Translation
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.

Good News Translation
Joshua did so,

Literal Translation
And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, Rise out of the Jordan.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Iosua comaunded the prestes, & sayde: Come vp out of Iordane.

American Standard Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of the Jordan.

Bible in Basic English
So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying: 'Come ye up out of the Jordan.'

King James Version (1611)
Ioshua therefore commaunded the Priests, saying, Come yee vp out of Iordan.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua charged the priests, saying, Go up out of Jordan.

English Revised Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.

Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up from the Jordan."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Josue comaundide to hem, and seide, Stie ye fro Jordan.

Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua commandeth the priests, saying, `Come ye up out of the Jordan.'

Update Bible Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.

Webster's Bible Translation
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.

World English Bible
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come you up out of the Jordan.

New King James Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

New Living Translation
So Joshua gave the command.

New Life Bible
So Joshua told the religious leaders to come up from the Jordan.

New Revised Standard
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, - Come ye up out of the Jordan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of the Jordan.

Revised Standard Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

THE MESSAGE
Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ For the priestes whiche bare the arke stoode in the middes of Iordane, vntyll all was finished that the Lorde commaunded Iosuah to saye vnto the people, accordyng to all that Moyses charged Iosuah: And the people hasted, & went ouer. ¹¹ And when all the people were cleane passed ouer, the arke of the Lord went ouer also, and the priestes before the people. ¹² And the chyldren of Ruben, and the chyldren of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasse, went before the chyldren of Israel armed, as Moyses charged the. ¹³ Euen fourtie thousande prepared for warre, went before the Lorde vnto battayl, through the plaine of Iericho. ¹⁴ That day the Lorde magnified Iosuah in the syght of all Israel: and they feared hym, as they feared Moyses all dayes of his lyfe. ¹⁵ And the Lorde spake vnto Iosuah, saying: ¹⁶ Commaunde the priestes that beare the arke of the testimonie to come vp out of Iordane. ¹⁷ Iosuah therefore commaunded the priestes, saying: Come ye vp out of Iordane. ¹⁸ And when the priestes that bare the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, were come vp out of the middes of Iordane, and assoone as the soles of the priestes feete were set on ye drie land, the waters of Iordane returned vnto their place, and went ouer all their bankes as they dyd before. ¹⁹ And the people came vp out of Iordane the tenth [day] of the first moneth, and pitched in Gilgal, euen in the east border of the citie Iericho.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Come ye up: Genesis 8:16-18, Daniel 3:26, Acts 16:23, Acts 16:35-39

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
Habel also brought of the firstlynges of his sheepe, & of the fatte thereof: and the Lorde had respect vnto Habel, and to his oblation.

Genesis 4:11
And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.

Genesis 5:18
Iered lyued an hundreth sixtie & two yeres, and he begate Henoch.

Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.

Genesis 11:4
And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.

2 Samuel 18:18
And this Absalom yet in his lyfe time toke and reared vp a piller, whiche is in the kinges dale: For he sayd, I haue no sonne to kepe my name in remembraunce, and he called the piller after his owne name, and it is called vnto this day Absaloms place.

Psalms 49:11
And yet they thynke that their houses shall continue for euer, and that their dwellyng places shall endure from one generation to another: [therfore] they call landes after their owne names.

Daniel 4:30
And the king spake, & sayd: Is not this great Babylon that I haue buylt for the house of the kingdome by the might of my power, and for the honour of my maiestie?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Joshua therefore commanded the priests,.... In obedience to the Lord, and sent them an order:

saying; as follows:

come ye up out of Jordan; from the midst of the river to the bank of it, which was properly an ascent.