12 And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. (A)Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death.

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12 Put limits(A) for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death.

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(A)Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits[a] in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 3:4 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits[a](A) between you and the ark; do not go near it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 3:4 That is, about 3,000 feet or about 900 meters