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Joshua 7:14-16
New International Reader's Version
Joshua 7:14-16
New International Reader's Version
14 “ ‘In the morning, come forward tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord chooses will come forward group by group. The group the Lord chooses will come forward family by family. And the men in the family the Lord chooses will come forward one by one. 15 Whoever is caught with the things that had been set apart to the Lord will be destroyed by fire. Everything that belongs to that person will also be destroyed. He has broken the Lord’s covenant. He has done a very terrible thing in Israel!’ ”
16 Early the next morning Joshua had Israel come forward by tribes. The tribe of Judah was chosen.
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Joshua 7:14-16
New International Version
Joshua 7:14-16
New International Version
14 “‘In the morning, present(A) yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord chooses(B) shall come forward clan by clan; the clan the Lord chooses shall come forward family by family; and the family the Lord chooses shall come forward man by man. 15 Whoever is caught with the devoted things(C) shall be destroyed by fire,(D) along with all that belongs to him.(E) He has violated the covenant(F) of the Lord and has done an outrageous thing in Israel!’”(G)
16 Early the next morning Joshua had Israel come forward by tribes, and Judah was chosen.
Joshua 7:14-16
New King James Version
Joshua 7:14-16
New King James Version
14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which (A)the Lord takes shall come according to families; and the family which the Lord takes shall come by households; and the household which the Lord takes shall come man by man. 15 (B)Then it shall be that he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has (C)transgressed[a] the covenant of the Lord, and because he (D)has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ”
16 So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.
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- Joshua 7:15 overstepped
Joshua 7:14-16
English Standard Version
Joshua 7:14-16
English Standard Version
14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near (A)by your tribes. And the tribe that the Lord takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the Lord takes shall come near by households. And the household that the Lord takes shall come near man by man. 15 (B)And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has (C)transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done (D)an outrageous thing in Israel.’”
16 So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken.
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