Joshua 4:2

New Life Version

"Choose twelve men from the people, one man from each family.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Choose twelve men from the people, one man for each tribe,

Hebrew Names Version
Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

King James Version
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

Lexham English Bible
"Take twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe,

English Standard Version
"Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,

New Century Version
"Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe.

New English Translation
"Select for yourselves twelve men from the people, one per tribe.

Amplified Bible
"Take for yourselves the twelve men [chosen] from among the people, one man from each tribe,

New American Standard Bible
"Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Take you twelue me out of the people, out of euery tribe a man,

Legacy Standard Bible
"Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe,

Contemporary English Version
Tell one man from each of the twelve tribes to pick up a large rock from where the priests are standing. Then have the men set up those rocks as a monument at the place where you camp tonight.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Take for yourselves from the people twelve men, a man from every tribe;

Darby Translation
Take you twelve men out of the people, one man out of every tribe,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Choose twelve men, one from each tribe.

George Lamsa Translation
Take twelve men from the people, a man out of every tribe,

Good News Translation
"Choose twelve men, one from each tribe,

Literal Translation
Take twelve men for you out of the people, one man of each tribe.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take vp twolue stones out of Iordane,

American Standard Version
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

Bible in Basic English
Take twelve men from the people, a man for every tribe,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take you twelue men out of the people, out of euery tribe a man,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

King James Version (1611)
Take you twelue men out of the people, out of euery tribe a man,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Take men from the people, one of each tribe,

English Revised Version
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

Berean Standard Bible
"Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Chese thou twelue men,

Young's Literal Translation
`Take for you out of the people twelve men, one man -- one man out of a tribe;

Update Bible Version
Take for yourselves twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe one man,

Webster's Bible Translation
Take you twelve men from the people, from every tribe a man,

World English Bible
Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

New King James Version
"Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from every tribe,

New Living Translation
"Now choose twelve men, one from each tribe.

New Revised Standard
"Select twelve men from the people, one from each tribe,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Take unto you, from among the people, twelve men, one man severally from each tribe;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:

Revised Standard Version
"Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe,

Contextual Overview

¹ When all the nation had crossed the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, ² "Choose twelve men from the people, one man from each family. ³ Tell them, ‘Take twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan. Take them from the place where the religious leaders' feet are standing. Carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you stay tonight.'" ⁴ So Joshua called the twelve men he had chosen from the sons of Israel, one man from each family. ⁵ And Joshua said to them, "Go into the middle of the Jordan in front of the special box of the agreement of the Lord your God. Each of you take a stone on his shoulder, one for each of the twelve family groups of Israel. ⁶ Let this be something special among you. Your children will ask you later, ‘What do these stones mean to you?' ⁷ Then you will tell them that the water of the Jordan was cut off before the special box of the agreement of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan was cut off. So these stones will become something to remember to the people of Israel forever." ⁸ The sons of Israel did as Joshua told them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as the Lord told Joshua. There was one stone for each family group of the sons of Israel. They carried them over with them to the place where they stayed, and put them down there. ⁹ Then Joshua set up twelve stones at the place where the feet of the religious leaders who carried the special box of the agreement were standing in the middle of the Jordan. They are there to this day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

twelve men: Joshua 3:12, Numbers 1:4-15, Numbers 13:2, Numbers 34:18, Deuteronomy 1:23, 1 Kings 18:31, Matthew 10:1-5

Reciprocal: Exodus 24:4 - according Joshua 4:4 - prepared Joshua 4:8 - did so as Joshua Joshua 18:4 - three

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 4:25
And Adam lay with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and gave him the name Seth. For she said, "God has let me have another son in the place of Abel, for Cain killed him."

Genesis 4:26
A son was born to Seth also, and he gave him the name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis 9:20
Then Noah became a farmer and planted a grape-field.

Genesis 37:13
Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And Joseph said to him, "I will go."

Genesis 47:3
Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your work?" So they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers."

Exodus 3:1
Now Moses was taking care of the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the religious leader of Midian. He led the flock to the west side of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Psalms 127:3
See, children are a gift from the Lord. The children born to us are our special reward.

Amos 7:15
But the Lord took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go and speak in My name to My people Israel.'

Luke 11:51
It will be from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias, the one who died between the altar and the house of God. For sure, I tell you, the people of this day will be guilty for this.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take you twelve men out of the people,.... Joshua had before this ordered twelve men to be taken from among them, which seems to have been done of himself; and now he has a direction from God for it, and what to employ them in:

out of every tribe a man; so that what they did was in the name of the several tribes, and as representing them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take you twelve men - The order is given in the plural, because no doubt the tribes themselves were to choose their own representatives, the choice being approved by Joshua Joshua 4:4. These twelve would be left with Joshua on the hither bank of the river, waiting to receive his orders after the rest of the people had made their way across Joshua 3:17; Joshua 4:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 4:2. Take you twelve men — From Joshua 3:12, it appears that the twelve men had been before appointed, one taken out of each of the twelve tribes; and now they are employed for that purpose for which they had been before selected.