Joshua 3:4

World English Bible (2000)

Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before."

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 19:12 : 12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
  • 1 Chr 11:2 : 2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.'"
  • Ps 89:7 : 7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
  • Heb 12:28-29 : 28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
  • Gen 31:2 : 2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
  • Exod 3:5 : 5 He said, "Don't come close. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place you are standing on is holy ground."
  • Exod 4:10 : 10 Moses said to Yahweh, "O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."

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    2 It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;

    3 and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.

  • Josh 3:5-6
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    5 Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you."

    6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people." They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

  • Josh 3:11
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    11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.

  • Josh 6:7
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    7 They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark."

  • Deut 1:33
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    33 who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

  • Josh 3:8-9
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    8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"

    9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."

  • Josh 1:11
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    11 "Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, 'Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.'"

  • Josh 6:3
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    3 All your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.

  • Deut 1:7
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    7 turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all [the places] near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

  • Josh 6:10-11
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    10 Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout."

    11 So he caused the ark of Yahweh to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

  • Deut 1:19
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    19 We traveled from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

  • Josh 3:14
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    14 It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,

  • Num 10:33
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    33 They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days' journey. The ark of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.

  • Deut 2:3-4
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    3 "You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.

    4 Command the people, saying, 'You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;

  • Josh 4:15
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    15 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Deut 29:16
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    16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

  • Deut 3:27-28
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    27 Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.

    28 But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see."

  • Josh 4:5
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    5 Joshua said to them, "Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

  • Josh 4:10-11
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    10 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.

    11 It happened, when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of Yahweh passed over, with the priests, in the presence of the people.

  • Deut 14:24
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    24 If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;

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    1 It happened, when all the nation had completely passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Deut 8:2
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    2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

  • Judg 2:2
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    2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?

  • Deut 12:9
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    9 for you haven't yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Num 14:42-44
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    42 Don't go up, for Yahweh isn't among you; that you not be struck down before your enemies.

    43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be with you."

    44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, didn't depart out of the camp.

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    8 Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed."

  • Josh 4:22
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    22 Then you shall let your children know, saying, 'Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

  • Deut 11:2
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    2 Know this day: for I don't speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,

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    22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

  • Exod 19:12
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    12 You shall set bounds to the people all around, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.

  • Deut 1:40
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    40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

  • Josh 4:7
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    7 then you shall tell them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.'"

  • Josh 4:3
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    3 and command them, saying, 'Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging place, where you will lodge tonight.'"

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    9 Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go."

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    4 From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

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    2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,

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    3 You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of Yahweh your God.

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    3 Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

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    3 No one shall come up with you; neither let anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mountain."

  • Deut 32:52
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    52 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel."

  • Josh 22:19
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    19 However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the altar of Yahweh our God.