1 Tendo toda a nação acabado de passar o Jordão, disse Jeová a Josué:
2 Tomai-vos do povo doze homens, de cada tribo um homem,
3 e ordenai-lhes, dizendo: Tirai daqui do meio do Jordão, do lugar em que os pés dos sacerdotes estiveram parados, doze pedras, e levai-as convosco para outra banda, e depositai-as no alojamento, em que haveis de pousar esta noite.
4 Então chamou Josué os doze homens, que havia preparado dos filhos de Israel, um de cada tribo,
5 e disse-lhes: Passai adiante da arca de Jeová vosso Deus ao meio do Jordão, e levantai para vós, cada um a sua pedra sobre o ombro, segundo o número das tribos dos filhos de Israel;
6 para que isso seja por sinal entre vós, de sorte que, quando vossos filhos no futuro perguntarem: Que vos significam estas pedras?
7 lhes respondereis: É porque as águas do Jordão foram cortadas diante da arca da aliança de Jeová, quando ela o atravessava. Estas pedras serão para sempre como memorial aos filhos de Israel.
8 Fizeram os filhos de Israel assim como Josué ordenou, e segundo o número das tribos dos filhos de Israel, levantaram doze pedras do meio do Jordão, como Jeová falou a Josué. Levaram-nas consigo ao lugar em que pousaram, e ali as depositaram.
9 Josué colocou também doze pedras no Jordão, no lugar em que pararam os pés dos sacerdotes que levavam a arca da aliança; ali se conservam até o dia de hoje.
10 Porque os sacerdotes que levavam a arca pararam no meio do Jordão, até se cumprir tudo o que Jeová, por intermédio de Moisés, ordenou a Josué que falasse ao povo. Apressou-se o povo, e passou.
11 Quando todo o povo acabou de passar, passou a arca, e os sacerdotes, na presença do povo.
12 Os filhos de Rúben, e os filhos de Gade, e a meia tribo de Manassés passaram arregimentados adiante dos filhos de Israel, como Moisés lhes falou.
13 Uns quarenta mil homens armados em guerra passaram adiante de Jeová para a batalha, a Arabá de Jericó.
14 Nesse dia engrandeceu Jeová a Josué à vista de todo o Israel; temiam-no, como temeram a Moisés, todos os dias da sua vida.
15 Falou Jeová a Josué:
16 Ordena aos sacerdotes que levam a arca do testemunho que saiam do Jordão.
17 Então ordenou Josué aos sacerdotes, dizendo: Saí do Jordão.
18 Quando os sacerdotes que levavam a arca da aliança de Jeová saíram do meio do Jordão, e as plantas dos seus pés se puseram na terra seca, voltaram as águas ao seu lugar e trasbordaram todas as margens como dantes.
19 O povo saiu do Jordão aos dez dias do primeiro mês, e acampou-se em Gilgal, da banda oriental de Jericó.
20 As doze pedras, que tiraram do Jordão, colocou-as Josué em Gilgal.
21 Disse aos filhos de Israel: Quando no futuro vossos filhos perguntarem a seus pais: Que significam estas pedras?
22 far-lhes-eis saber, dizendo: Israel passou a pé enxuto este Jordão.
23 Porque Jeová vosso Deus secou as águas do Jordão diante de vós, até que passastes, assim como fez ao mar Vermelho, ao qual secou perante nós, até que passamos;
24 para que todos os povos da terra conheçam que a mão de Jeová é poderosa, a fim de que temais em todo o tempo a Jeová vosso Deus.
1 Now when all the nation had come to the other side of Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,
2 Take twelve men from the people, a man for every tribe,
3 And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests were resting, twelve stones, and take them over with you and put them down in the place where you take your rest tonight.
4 So Joshua sent for the twelve men, whom he had ready, one man out of every tribe of the children of Israel,
5 And he said to them, Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of Jordan, and let every one of you take up a stone on his back, one for every tribe of the children of Israel:
6 So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?
7 Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones will be a sign for the children of Israel, keeping it in their memory for ever.
8 So the children of Israel did as Joshua gave them orders, and took twelve stones from the middle of Jordan, as the Lord had said to Joshua, one for every tribe of the children of Israel; these they took across with them to their night's resting-place and put them down there.
9 And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day.
10 For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the middle of Jordan till all the orders given to Joshua by Moses from the Lord had been done: then the people went over quickly.
11 And when all the people had come to the other side, the ark of the Lord went over, and the priests, before the eyes of the people.
12 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went over armed before the children of Israel as Moses had said to them:
13 About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho.
14 That day the Lord made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel; and all the days of his life they went in fear of him, as they had gone in fear of Moses.
15 Then the Lord said to Joshua,
16 Give orders to the priests who take up the ark of witness, to come up out of Jordan.
17 So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan.
18 And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before.
19 So on the tenth day of the first month the people came up out of Jordan, and put up their tents in Gilgal, on the east side of Jericho.
20 And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua put up in Gilgal.
21 And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?
22 Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.
23 For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across:
24 So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the hand of the Lord is strong; and that they may go in fear of the Lord your God for ever.