InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Jos C1 C2 C3 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24
Jos 4 V1 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24
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Twelve men from among the Israelites each took a stone from the middle of the Jordan River. With these stones Joshua built a monument to remind the Israelite people, and their descendants, about how God helped them cross the river.
Here are some other possible section headings:
Setting up memorial stones
Twelve memorial stones
A reminder that God brought them to the promised land
This verse is a repetition of the command that Yahweh gave to Joshua in 3:12. It is repeated because the emphasis of this story is on how the representatives of the twelve Israelite tribes set up memorial stones.
“Choose twelve men from among the people,
“Choose twelve men from among the Israelites
“Now choose twelve men from the people of Israel
Choose twelve men: The Hebrew verb that the BSB translates as Choose is imperative. It means that Yahweh commanded Joshua to choose twelve men.
from among the people: The phrase from among the people means that Joshua was to choose the men from among the Israelites.
one from each tribe,
one man per clan.
one man from every clan of Israelite people.
one from each tribe: The phrase one from each tribe means that Joshua must choose one man from each of the twelve Israelite tribes.
tribe: See how you translated this term in 1:12|.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
אִישׁ־אֶחָ֥ד אִישׁ־אֶחָ֖ד מִשָּֽׁבֶט
(a)_man one(ms) (a)_man one(ms) (Some words not found in UHB: take to/for=you(pl) from/more_than the,people two ten men (a)_man one(ms) (a)_man one(ms) from,a_tribe )
See how you translated the same expression in Joshua 3:12.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.