Give orders to the priests who take up the ark of witness, to come up out of Jordan.
MESSAGE
"Command the priests carrying the Chest of the Testimony to come up from the Jordan."
NKJV
"Command the priests who bear the ark of the Testimony to come up from the Jordan."
PHILIPS
RWEBSTR
Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
GWV
"Order the priests who carry the ark of the testimony to come out of the Jordan River."
NET
“Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws* to come up from the Jordan.”
NET
4:16 “Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws130
tn Traditionally, “the ark of the testimony,” another name for the ark of the covenant. The Hebrew term עֵדוּת (’edut, “testimony” or “witness”) here refers to the Mosaic covenant and the body of stipulations contained within it (see HALOT 2:791).