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Wycliffe Bible

Joshua 4:17

And Josue comaundide to hem, and seide, Stie ye fro Jordan.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Miracles;   Priest;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jericho;   Joshua;   Quarry;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jordan ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joshua, Book of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ark of the covenant;  

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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iosuah therefore commaunded the priestes, saying: Come ye vp out of Iordane.
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."
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 Forsothe the preestis, that baren the arke, stoden in the myddis of Jordan, til alle thingis weren fillid, whiche the Lord comaundide, that Josue schulde speke to the puple, as Moises hadde seide to hym. And the puple hastide, and passide. 11 And whanne alle men hadden passid, also the arke of the Lord passide, and the preestis yeden bifor the puple. 12 Also the sones of Ruben, and of Gad, and half the lynage of Manasse, yeden armed bifor the sones of Israel, as Moyses comaundide to hem. 13 And fourti thousynde of fiyters yeden bi her cumpanyes and gaderyngis on the pleyn and feeldi places of the citee of Jerico. 14 In that day the Lord magnyfiede Josue bifor al Israel, that thei schulden drede hym, as thei dreden Moises, while he lyuede yit. 15 And the Lord seide to Josue, 16 Comaunde thou to the preestis that beren the arke of boond of pees, that thei stie fro Jordan. 17 And Josue comaundide to hem, and seide, Stie ye fro Jordan. 18 And whanne thei hadden stied, berynge the arke of boond of pees of the Lord, and hadde bigunne to trede on the drie erthe, the watris turneden ayen in to her trowe, and flowiden, as tho weren wont before. 19 Forsothe the puple stiede fro Jordan in the tenthe dai of the firste monethe, and thei settiden tentis in Galgalis, ayens the eest coost of the citee of Jerico.

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
and Abel offride of the first gendrid of his floc, and of the fatnesse of tho. And the Lord bihelde to Abel and to the yiftis of hym;
Genesis 4:11
Now therfor thou schalt be cursid on erthe, that openyde his mouth, and resseyuede of thin hond the blood of thi brothir.
Genesis 5:18
And Jared lyuede an hundrid and two and sixti yeer, and gendride Enoth.
Genesis 5:22
And Enoth yede with God; and Enoth lyuede after that he gendride Matusalem thre hundrid yeer, and gendride sones and douytris.
Genesis 11:4
and seiden, Come ye, and make we to vs a citee and tour, whos hiynesse stretche `til to heuene; and make we solempne oure name bifor that we be departid in to alle londis.
2 Samuel 18:18
Forsothe Absolon, while he lyuyde yit, hadde reisid to hym a memorial, which is in the valey of the kyng; for he seide, Y haue no sone, and this schal be the mynde of my name; and he clepide `the memorial bi his name, and it is clepid the Hond, `that is, werk, of Absolon `til to this dai.
Psalms 49:11
and the sepulcris of hem ben the housis of hem with outen ende. The tabernaclis of hem ben in generacioun and generacioun; thei clepiden her names in her londis.
Daniel 4:30
and the kyng answeride, and seide, Whether this is not Babiloyne, the greet citee, which Y bildide in to the hous of rewme, in the miyt of my strengthe, and in the glorie of my fairnesse?

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.


 
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