1 Quando todos os reis dos amorreus, que estavam além do Jordão ao ocidente, e todos os reis dos cananeus, que estavam junto ao mar, ouviram como Jeová havia secado as águas do Jordão diante dos filhos de Israel, até que passamos, derreteu-se-lhes o coração, nem lhes ficou alento algum, por causa dos filhos de Israel.

2 Nesse tempo disse Jeová a Josué: Faze-te canivetes de pedra e circuncida segunda vez aos filhos de Israel.

3 Fez Josué para si canivetes de pedra, e circuncidou aos filhos de Israel no outeiro dos prepúcios.

4 Esta é a razão por que Josué administrou a circuncisão: todo o povo que saiu do Egito, os homens, todos os homens de guerra, morreram no deserto pelo caminho.

5 Porque todos os que saíram estavam circuncidados, porém todos os que nasceram no deserto pelo caminho quando saíram do Egito, não haviam sido circuncidados.

6 Pois quarenta anos andaram os filhos de Israel pelo deserto, até se acabar toda a nação, a saber, todos os homens de guerra que saíram do Egito, e isto porque não obedeceram à voz de Jeová: a eles jurou Jeová que não os deixaria ver a terra que prometeu com juramento a seus pais que nos daria, uma terra que mana leite e mel.

7 A seus filhos, que suscitou em lugar deles, a estes circuncidou Josué; pois estavam incircuncidados, por não o terem sido pelo caminho.

8 Depois que a circuncisão havia sido administrada a toda a nação, ficaram nos seus lugares no arraial, até que sararam.

9 Disse Jeová a Josué: Hoje tirei de sobre vós o opróbrio do Egito. Pelo que ficou aquele lugar sendo chamado Gilgal até o dia de hoje.

10 Acamparam-se em Gilgal os filhos de Israel; e celebraram a Páscoa aos quatorze dias do mês, à tarde, na Arabá de Jericó.

11 Ao outro dia comeram do produto da terra pães asmos e espigas tostadas.

12 Cessou o maná no dia seguinte, depois que os filhos de Israel comeram do produto da terra, e não o tiveram mais; mas nesse ano comeram as novidades da terra de Canaã.

13 Estando Josué perto de Jericó, levantou os olhos e olhou: eis que estava em pé diante dele um homem, que tinha na mão uma espada nua. Josué foi ter com ele e perguntou-lhe: És tu por nós, ou pelos nossos adversários?

14 Respondeu ele: Não; mas agora estou aqui como capitão do exército de Jeová. Prostrando-se Josué com o rosto em terra adorou e perguntou-lhe: Que diz o meu senhor ao seu servo?

15 Respondeu o capitão do exército de Jeová a Josué: Tira o calçado dos teus pés, porque o lugar em que estás é santo. Josué assim fez.

1 Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

3 So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

4 And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.

5 All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.

6 For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

7 And their children, who came up in their place, now underwent circumcision by the hands of Joshua, not having had it before: for there had been no circumcision on the journey.

8 So when all the nation had undergone circumcision, they kept in their tents till they were well again.

9 And the Lord said to Joshua, Today the shame of Egypt has been rolled away from you. So that place was named Gilgal, to this day.

10 So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho.

11 And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day.

12 And there was no more manna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the land; the children of Israel had manna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaan was their food.

13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, lifting up his eyes he saw a man in front of him, with his sword uncovered in his hand: and Joshua went up to him and said, Are you for us or against us?

14 And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?

15 And the captain of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. And Joshua did so.