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Bible in Basic English

And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day.

New American Standard Bible

Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing, and they are there to this day.

King James Version

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

Holman Bible

Joshua also set up 12 stones in the middle of the Jordan where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing. The stones are there to this day.

International Standard Version

Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan River at the location where the feet of the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant had been standing, and they remain there to this day.

A Conservative Version

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood, and they are there to this day.

American Standard Version

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

Amplified

Then Joshua set up [a second monument of] twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing, and they are there to this day.

Darby Translation

And twelve stones did Joshua set up in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant had stood firm; and they are there to this day.

Julia Smith Translation

And Joshua raised up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place of the standing of the feet of the priest lifting up the ark of the covenant: and they shall be there till this day.

King James 2000

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the covenant [stood], and they are there to this day.

Modern King James verseion

even the twelve stones Joshua lifted up in the middle of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant, stood. And they are there to this day.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And thereto Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood. And there they be, even unto this day.

NET Bible

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.

New Heart English Bible

Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

The Emphasized Bible

Twelve stones also, did Joshua set up in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where stood the feet of the priests who were bearing the ark of the covenant, - and they have remained there until this day.

Webster

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.

World English Bible

Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

Youngs Literal Translation

even the twelve stones hath Joshua raised up out of the midst of the Jordan, the place of the standing of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant, and they are there unto this day.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And Joshua
יהושׁע יהושׁוּע 
Y@howshuwa` 
Usage: 218

set up
קוּם 
Quwm 
Usage: 629

שׁתּים שׁנים 
Sh@nayim 
Usage: 767

in the midst
תּוך 
Tavek 
Usage: 419

of Jordan
ירדּן 
Yarden 
Usage: 182

in the place where the feet
רגל 
Regel 
Usage: 247

of the priests
כּהן 
Kohen 
Usage: 750

נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

the ark
ארן ארון 
'arown 
Usage: 202

of the covenant
בּרית 
B@riyth 
Usage: 284

מצּב 
Matstsab 
Usage: 10

Context Readings

The Israelites Make A Memorial

8 So the children of Israel did as Joshua gave them orders, and took twelve stones from the middle of Jordan, as the Lord had said to Joshua, one for every tribe of the children of Israel; these they took across with them to their night's resting-place and put them down there. 9 And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day. 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.


Cross References

Genesis 26:33

And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.

Genesis 28:18

And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it.

Exodus 24:12

And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and take your place there: and I will give you the stones on which I have put in writing the law and the orders, so that you may give the people knowledge of them.

Exodus 28:21

The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp.

Deuteronomy 34:6

And the Lord put him to rest in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor: but no man has knowledge of his resting-place to this day.

Joshua 24:26

And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.

Judges 1:26

And he went into the land of the Hittites, building a town there and naming it Luz: which is its name to this day.

1 Samuel 7:12

Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.

1 Samuel 30:25

And so he made it a rule and an order for Israel from that day till now.

2 Samuel 4:3

But the people of Beeroth had gone in flight to Gittaim, where they have been living to this day.)

1 Kings 18:31

And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:

2 Chronicles 5:9

The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place before the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside; and there they are to this day.

Psalm 111:2-4

The works of the Lord are great, searched out by all those who have delight in them.

Matthew 27:8

For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day.

Matthew 28:15

So they took the money, and did as they had been ordered: and this account has been current among the Jews till the present time.

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