Joshua 3:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.

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  • Josh 7:13 : 13 Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you.
  • 1 Sam 16:5 : 5 And he said, In peace: I have come to make an offering to the Lord: make yourselves clean and come with me to make the offering. And he made Jesse and his sons clean, and sent for them to be present at the offering.
  • Lev 20:7 : 7 So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.
  • Ps 86:10 : 10 For you are great, and do great works of wonder; you only are God.
  • Joel 2:16 : 16 Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.
  • John 17:19 : 19 And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.
  • Ps 114:1-7 : 1 When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them; 2 Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom. 3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back. 4 The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back? 6 You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs? 7 Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;
  • Num 11:8 : 8 The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.
  • Josh 3:13 : 13 And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass.
  • Josh 3:15 : 15 And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water (for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting),
  • Job 1:5 : 5 And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.
  • Exod 19:10-15 : 10 And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed. 11 And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people. 12 And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death: 13 He is not to be touched by a hand, but is to be stoned or have an arrow put through him; man or beast, he is to be put to death: at the long sounding of a horn they may come up to the mountain. 14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed. 15 And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 3:6-11
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    79%

    6 Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the agreement and go over in front of the people. So they took up the ark of the agreement and went in front of the people.

    7 And the Lord said to Joshua, From now on I will give you glory in the eyes of all Israel, so that they may see that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

    8 And you are to give orders to the priests who take up the ark of the agreement, and say, When you come to the edge of the waters of Jordan, go no further.

    9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.

    10 And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.

    11 See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan.

  • Josh 3:1-4
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    76%

    1 Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.

    2 And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,

    3 Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;

    4 But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.

  • Josh 1:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 Then Joshua gave their orders to those who were in authority over the people, saying,

    11 Go through the tents and give orders to the people, saying, Get ready a store of food; for in three days you are to go over this river Jordan and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Josh 7:13
    75%

    13 Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you.

  • Josh 4:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14 That day the Lord made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel; and all the days of his life they went in fear of him, as they had gone in fear of Moses.

    15 Then the Lord said to Joshua,

  • Exod 19:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.

    11 And by the third day let them be ready: for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people.

  • Josh 4:1
    74%

    1 Now when all the nation had come to the other side of Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,

  • Josh 6:7
    73%

    7 And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the town, and let the armed men go before the ark of the Lord.

  • Josh 5:15
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    15 And the captain of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. And Joshua did so.

  • Deut 31:3
    72%

    3 The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.

  • Josh 11:6
    72%

    6 And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

  • Exod 9:5
    72%

    5 And the time was fixed by the Lord, and he said, Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.

  • Deut 31:7
    72%

    7 Then Moses sent for Joshua, and before the eyes of all Israel said to him, Be strong and take heart: for you are to go with this people into the land which the Lord, by his oath to their fathers, has given them; by your help they will take it for their heritage.

  • Lev 20:7
    72%

    7 So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

  • Josh 24:23
    71%

    23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Deut 3:28
    71%

    28 But give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making him strong; for he is to go over Jordan at the head of this people, and he will give them this land which you will see for their heritage.

  • Josh 20:1
    71%

    1 And the Lord said to Joshua,

  • Josh 6:3
    70%

    3 Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the town, going all round it once. Do this for six days.

  • Josh 6:12
    70%

    12 And early in the morning Joshua got up, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.

  • Josh 6:10
    70%

    10 And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You will give no cry, and make no sound, and let no word go out of your mouth till the day when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a loud cry.

  • Exod 19:22
    70%

    22 And let the priests who come near to the Lord make themselves holy, for fear that the Lord may come on them suddenly.

  • Exod 19:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed.

    15 And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.

  • Josh 24:19
    70%

    19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.

  • Josh 3:14
    69%

    14 So when the people went out from their tents to go over Jordan, the priests who took up the ark of the agreement were in front of the people;

  • Josh 6:15
    69%

    15 Then on the seventh day they got up early, at the dawn of the day, and went round the town in the same way, but that day they went round it seven times.

  • Josh 4:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10 For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the middle of Jordan till all the orders given to Joshua by Moses from the Lord had been done: then the people went over quickly.

    11 And when all the people had come to the other side, the ark of the Lord went over, and the priests, before the eyes of the people.

  • Deut 23:14
    69%

    14 For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.

  • Josh 7:6
    69%

    6 Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads.

  • Exod 34:10
    69%

    10 And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared.

  • Josh 5:13
    69%

    13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, lifting up his eyes he saw a man in front of him, with his sword uncovered in his hand: and Joshua went up to him and said, Are you for us or against us?

  • Num 27:22
    69%

    22 So Moses did as the Lord said: he took Joshua and put him before Eleazar the priest and the meeting of the people: