Joshua 3:5
Good News Translation
Joshua told the people, "Purify yourselves, because tomorrow the LORD will perform miracles among you."

New Revised Standard Version
Then Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

Contemporary English Version
Joshua told the people, "Make yourselves acceptable to worship the LORD, because he is going to do some amazing things for us."

New American Bible
Joshua also said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will perform wonders among you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joshua said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Joshua said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

Sanctify

Joshua 7:13 Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified against tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The curse is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee, that is defiled with this wickedness.

Exodus 19:10-15 And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments. . . .

Leviticus 10:3 And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken. I will be sanctified in them that approach to me: and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his peace.

Leviticus 20:7 Sanctify yourselves, and be ye holy: because I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 11:8 And the people went about, and gathering it, ground it in a mill, or beat it in a mortar, and boiled it in a pot, and made cakes thereof of the taste of bread tempered with oil.

1 Samuel 16:5 And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to offer sacrifice to the Lord, be ye sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

Job 1:5 And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.

Joel 2:16 Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bridal chamber.

John 17:19 And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

the Lord

Joshua 3:13,15 And 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. . . .

Psalm 86:10 For thou art great and dost wonderful things: thou art God alone.

Psalm 114:1-7 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people: . . .

Context
Crossing the Jordan
4And let there be between you and the ark the space of two thousand cubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way you must go: for you have not gone this way before: and take care you come not near the ark. 5And Joshua said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.6And he said to the priests: Take up the ark of the covenant, and go before the people. And they obeyed his commands, and took it up, and walked before them.…
Cross References
Exodus 19:10
And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments.

Exodus 19:11
And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai.

Joshua 3:4
And let there be between you and the ark the space of two thousand cubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way you must go: for you have not gone this way before: and take care you come not near the ark.

Joshua 3:6
And he said to the priests: Take up the ark of the covenant, and go before the people. And they obeyed his commands, and took it up, and walked before them.

Joshua 7:13
Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified against tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The curse is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee, that is defiled with this wickedness.

Joshua 3:4
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