1 Levantou-se, pois, Josué de madrugada, e partiram de Sitim, e vieram até ao Jordão, ele e todos os filhos de Israel, e pousaram ali antes que passassem. 2 E sucedeu, ao fim de três dias, que os príncipes passaram pelo meio do arraial 3 e ordenaram ao povo, dizendo: Quando virdes a arca do concerto do Senhor, vosso Deus, e que os sacerdotes levitas a levam, parti vós também do vosso lugar e segui-a. 4 Haja, contudo, distância entre vós e ela, como da medida de dois mil côvados; e não vos chegueis a ela, para que saibais o caminho pelo qual haveis de ir; porquanto por este caminho nunca passastes antes. 5 Disse Josué também ao povo: Santificai-vos, porque amanhã fará o Senhor maravilhas no meio de vós. 6 E falou Josué aos sacerdotes, dizendo: Levantai a arca do concerto e passai adiante deste povo. Levantaram, pois, a arca do concerto e foram andando adiante do povo.

7 E o Senhor disse a Josué: Este dia começarei a engrandecer-te perante os olhos de todo o Israel, para que saibam que assim como fui com Moisés assim serei contigo. 8 Tu, pois, ordenarás aos sacerdotes que levam a arca do concerto, dizendo: Quando vierdes até à borda das águas do Jordão, parareis no Jordão. 9 Então, disse Josué aos filhos de Israel: Chegai-vos para cá e ouvi as palavras do Senhor, vosso Deus. 10 Disse mais Josué: Nisto conhecereis que o Deus vivo está no meio de vós e que de todo lançará de diante de vós os cananeus, e os heteus, e os heveus, e os ferezeus, e os girgaseus, e os amorreus, e os jebuseus. 11 Eis que a arca do concerto do Senhor de toda a terra passa o Jordão diante de vós. 12 Tomai, pois, agora, doze homens das tribos de Israel, de cada tribo um homem; 13 porque há de acontecer que, assim que as plantas dos pés dos sacerdotes que levam a arca do Senhor, o Senhor de toda a terra, repousem nas águas do Jordão, se separarão as águas do Jordão, e as águas que de cima descem pararão num montão.

14 E aconteceu que, partindo o povo das suas tendas, para passar o Jordão, levavam os sacerdotes a arca do concerto diante do povo. 15 E, quando os que levavam a arca chegaram até ao Jordão, e os pés dos sacerdotes que levavam a arca se molharam na borda das águas (porque o Jordão transbordava sobre todas as suas ribanceiras, todos os dias da sega), 16 pararam-se as águas que vinham de cima; levantaram-se num montão, mui longe da cidade de Adã, que está da banda de Sartã; e as que desciam ao mar das Campinas, que é o mar Salgado, faltavam de todo e separaram-se; então, passou o povo defronte de Jericó. 17 Porém os sacerdotes que levavam a arca do concerto do Senhor pararam firmes em seco no meio do Jordão; e todo o Israel passou em seco, até que todo o povo acabou de passar o Jordão.

1 And Josue rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they departed from Setim, and came to the Jordan, he, and all the children of Israel, and they abode there for three days.2 After which, the heralds went through the midst of the camp,3 And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it, rise you up also, and follow them as they go before: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.5 And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.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.7 And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am with thee also.8 And do thou command the priests that carry the ark of the covenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered into part of the water of the Jordan, stand in it.9 And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither and hear the word of the Lord your God.10 And again he said: By this you shall know that the Lord the living God is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy before your sight the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the Pherezite, the Gergesite also and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite.11 Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you into the Jordan.12 Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.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.14 So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant. went on before them.15 And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet were dipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time, had filled the banks of its channel,)16 The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.17 And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over through the channel that was dried up.