Toponym Jordan in the world's Bibles
Meaning of the name: the river of judgment. Related names are: Israel, Moses, Jericho . The translations of Jordan in 85 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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Wear it!And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. (GEN 13:10)
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. (GEN 13:11)
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. (GEN 32:10)
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. (GEN 50:10)
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. (GEN 50:11)
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. (NUM 13:29)
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho. (NUM 22:1)
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, (NUM 26:3)
These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. (NUM 26:63)
And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho. (NUM 31:12)
Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan. (NUM 32:5)
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward. (NUM 32:19)
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward. (NUM 32:19)
And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him, (NUM 32:21)
And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: (NUM 32:29)
We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours. (NUM 32:32)
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. (NUM 33:48)
And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab. (NUM 33:49)
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, (NUM 33:50)
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; (NUM 33:51)
And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about. (NUM 34:12)
The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising. (NUM 34:15)
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, (NUM 35:1)
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan; (NUM 35:10)
Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge. (NUM 35:14)
These are the commandments and the judgments, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. (NUM 36:13)
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. (DEU 1:1)
On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, (DEU 1:5)
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us. (DEU 2:29)
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; (DEU 3:8)