Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And so Joshua made a covenant with the people the same day and set ordinances and laws before them in Shechem.

New American Standard Bible

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

King James Version

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Holman Bible

On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people at Shechem and established a statute and ordinance for them.

International Standard Version

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, making statutes and ordinances in Shechem.

A Conservative Version

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

American Standard Version

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Amplified

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance at Shechem.

Bible in Basic English

So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.

Darby Translation

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Julia Smith Translation

And Joshua will cut out a covenant to the people in that day and will set to him a law and a judgment in Shechem.

King James 2000

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Lexham Expanded Bible

So Joshua {made a covenant} with the people on that day, and he established for them a statute and a judgment at Shechem.

Modern King James verseion

And Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

NET Bible

That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.

New Heart English Bible

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

The Emphasized Bible

So then Joshua solemnised a covenant for the people, on that day, - and set for them a statute and a regulation, in Shechem.

Webster

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

World English Bible

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Youngs Literal Translation

And Joshua maketh a covenant with the people on that day, and layeth on it a statute and an ordinance, in Shechem.

Interlinear

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

כּרת 
Karath 
Usage: 287

בּרית 
B@riyth 
Usage: 284

with the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and set
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

and an ordinance
משׁפּט 
Mishpat 
Usage: 421

References

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Morish

Smith

Context Readings

The Israelites Promise To Serve Yahweh

24 And the people answered Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve and his voice we will obey." 25 And so Joshua made a covenant with the people the same day and set ordinances and laws before them in Shechem. 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone and pitched it on end in the said place, even under an oak that stood in the sanctuary of the LORD.


Cross References

Exodus 15:25

And Moses cried unto the LORD, and he showed him a tree: and he cast it into the water, and they waxed sweet. There he made them an ordinance and a law, and there he tempted them,

2 Kings 11:17

And Jehoiada made a covenant both between the LORD and the king, and between the people and the LORD, that they should be the LORD's people: and also between the king and the people.

2 Chronicles 23:16

And Jehoiada made a bond between him and all the people and the king, to be the LORD's people.

Nehemiah 9:38

And in all this make we a sure covenant, and write it, and let our princes, Levites, and priests seal it."

Exodus 24:3

And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the laws. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD hath said, will we do."

Exodus 24:7-8

And he took the book of the covenant and read it in the audience of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD hath said, we will do and hear."

Deuteronomy 5:2-3

The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:1

These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:10-15

Ye stand here this day every one of you before the LORD your God: both the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officers and all the men of Israel;

Joshua 24:1

And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for elders of Israel, and for their heads, judges and officers which presented themselves before God.

Joshua 24:26

And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone and pitched it on end in the said place, even under an oak that stood in the sanctuary of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 15:12

And they made a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers, with all their hearts and all their souls:

2 Chronicles 15:15

And all Judah rejoiced in the oath, for they had sworn with all their hearts, and sought him with all their lust, and he was found of them. And the LORD gave them rest round about.

2 Chronicles 29:10

Now have I in my heart to strike a covenant with the LORD God of Israel: that his wrath may cease.

2 Chronicles 34:29-32

Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 10:28-29

And the other people, the priests, Levites, Porters, singers, Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people in the lands unto the law of God, with their wives, sons and daughters, as many as could understand it,

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