Joshua 3:4
Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
KJV
sitque inter vos et arcam spatium cubitorum duum millium : ut procul videre possitis, et nosse per quam viam ingrediamini : quia prius non ambulastis per eam : et cavete ne appropinquetis ad arcam.
Vulgate
ἀλλὰ μακρὰν ἔστω ἀνὰ μέσον ἡμῶν καὶ ἐκείνης, ὅσον δισχιλίους πήχεις στήσεσθε· μὴ προσεγγίσητε αὐτῇ· ἵν’ ἐπίστησθε τὴν ὁδὸν ἣν πορεύεσθε αὐτήν· οὐ γὰρ πεπόρευσθε τὴν ὁδὸν ἀπ’ ἐχθὲς καὶ τρίτης ἡμέρας.
LXX
Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
ASV
אַ֣ךְ רָח֣וֹק יִהְיֶ֗ה בֵּֽינֵי/כֶם֙ ו/בינ/ו וּ/בֵינָ֔י/ו כְּ/אַלְפַּ֥יִם אַמָּ֖ה בַּ/מִּדָּ֑ה אַֽל תִּקְרְב֣וּ אֵלָ֗י/ו לְמַ֤עַן אֲשֶׁר תֵּֽדְעוּ֙ אֶת הַ/דֶּ֨רֶךְ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֵּֽלְכוּ בָ֔/הּ כִּ֣י לֹ֧א עֲבַרְתֶּ֛ם בַּ/דֶּ֖רֶךְ מִ/תְּמ֥וֹל שִׁלְשֽׁוֹם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
21 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Exod 19:12 — And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to
- Isa 42:16 — And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do
- Num 2:2 — Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
- Ps 89:7 — God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.