Joshua 3:14
New Revised Standard Version
When the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were in front of the people.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites packed up and left camp. The priests carrying the chest walked in front,

New American Bible
The people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan, with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before them.

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So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before them.

bearing the ark

Joshua 3:3,5 And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it, rise you up also, and follow them as they go before: . . .

Joshua 6:6 Then Joshua, the son of Nun, called the priests, and said to them: Take the ark of the covenant: and let seven other priests take the seven trumpets of the jubilee, and march before the ark of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 31:26 Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God: that it may be there for a testimony against thee.

Jeremiah 3:16 And when you shall be multiplied, and increase in the land in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more: The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come upon the heart, neither shall they remember it, neither shall it be visited, neither shall that be done any more.

Acts 7:44,45 The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:24,25 But unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. . . .

Hebrews 9:4 Having a golden censer and the ark of the testament covered about on every part with gold, in which was a golden pot that had manna and the rod of Aaron that had blossomed and the tables of the testament.

Context
Crossing the Jordan
13And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and those that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap. 14So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before them.15And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet were dipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time, had filled the banks of its channel,)…
Cross References
Acts 7:44
The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen.

Acts 7:45
Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, into the possession of the Gentiles: whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David,

Joshua 24:11
And you passed over the Jordan, and you came to Jericho. And the men of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Gergesite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite: and I delivered them into your hands.

Psalm 132:8
Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified.

Joshua 3:13
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