Joshua 3:12
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Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.

Joshua 4:2,9 Choose twelve men, one of every tribe: . . .

Context
Crossing the Jordan
11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you into the Jordan. 12Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.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.…
Cross References
Joshua 4:2
Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:

Joshua 3:13
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.

Lexicon
Now
וְעַתָּ֗ה (wə·‘at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 6258: At this time

choose
קְח֤וּ (qə·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take

twelve
שְׁנֵ֣י (šə·nê)
Number - mdc
Strong's Hebrew 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

men
אִ֔ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

from the tribes
מִשִּׁבְטֵ֖י (miš·šiḇ·ṭê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 7626: Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe

of Israel,
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

one
אֶחָ֥ד (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 259: United, one, first

from each tribe.
לַשָּֽׁבֶט׃ (laš·šā·ḇeṭ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7626: Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe


Additional Translations
Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

Choose for yourselves twelve men of the sons of Israel, one of each tribe.

And now take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.

Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

and now, take for you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man -- one man for a tribe;
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