When the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of the people.

百姓离开帐棚要过约旦河的时候，抬约柜的祭司乃在百姓的前头。

百姓起行离开帐棚过约旦河的时候，抬约柜的祭司在百姓的前面。

百姓起行离开帐棚过约旦河的时候，抬约柜的祭司在百姓的前面。

那时是收割的季节，河水高涨，淹没两岸。民众拔营准备过河的时候，抬约柜的祭司走在前头，当他们的脚刚一踏进河水，

人民离开帐棚出发，要过约旦河的时候，抬约柜的祭司在人民的前面。

百姓離開帳棚要過約旦河的時候，擡約櫃的祭司乃在百姓的前頭。

百姓起行離開帳棚過約旦河的時候，抬約櫃的祭司在百姓的前面。

百姓起行離開帳棚過約旦河的時候，抬約櫃的祭司在百姓的前面。

那時是收割的季節，河水高漲，淹沒兩岸。民眾拔營準備過河的時候，抬約櫃的祭司走在前頭，當他們的腳剛一踏進河水，

人民離開帳棚出發，要過約旦河的時候，抬約櫃的祭司在人民的前面。

人民離開帳棚往前行、要過約但河的時候，抬約櫃的祭司在人民前面。

民既離幕、欲濟約但、祭司舁約匱先民而行、

秋約但河水漲溢、民離幕、欲濟約但、舁法匱之祭司、行於其前、至約但河、足濡於水濱、

民遂離幕、欲過約但、舁約匱之祭司行於民前時、

So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.

So the people took their tents down. They prepared to go across the Jordan River. The priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.

So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

So the people left their camp to cross the Jordan, and the priests who were carrying the Ark of the Covenant went ahead of them.

So when the people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan, with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the people,

So it was, when the people set out from their camp to cross over the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the covenant being before the people;

When the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of the people.

And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;

So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.

When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,

“ Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them, until the days of David.

Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God,because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

Rise up, LORD, come to your resting place, you and your powerful ark.

So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them,“ Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven ram’s horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”

“ Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God so that it may remain there as a witness against you.

and commanded the people,“ When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God carried by the Levitical priests, you are to break camp and follow it.

When you multiply and increase in the land, in those days— this is the LORD’s declaration— no one will say again,“ The ark of the LORD’s covenant.” It will never come to mind, and no one will remember or miss it. Another one will not be made.

Then he said to the priests,“ Carry the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.

It had the gold altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, covered with gold on all sides, in which was a gold jar containing the manna, Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.