Josué 5

A circuncisão dos filhos de Israel

1 Quando todos os reis dos amorreus que estavam além do Jordão, ao ocidente, e todos os reis dos cananeus *Nm 13.29que estavam junto ao mar *Js 2.10-11ouviram 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 *Êx 4.25canivetes 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: *Dt 2.14todo 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 *Dt 2.7,14quarenta 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 isso porque não obedeceram à voz de Jeová; *Nm 14.29-35;26.63-65a 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 *Sf 2.8opróbrio do Egito. Pelo que ficou aquele lugar sendo chamado Gilgal até o dia de hoje.

Celebra-se a Páscoa

10 Acamparam-se em Gilgal os filhos de Israel e *Êx 12.18celebraram a Páscoa aos *Js 4.19quatorze dias do mês, à tarde, na Arabá de Jericó. 11 Ao outro dia, comeram do produto da terra pães asmos e espigas tostadas. 12 *Êx 16.35Cessou 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.

A visão de Josué

13 Estando Josué perto de Jericó, levantou os olhos e olhou; eis que estava em pé diante dele *Gn 18.1-2;32.24,30;Nm 22.31um 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: *Êx 3.5Tira o calçado dos teus pés, porque o lugar em que estás é santo. Josué assim fez.

1 When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel. 2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time." 3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. 4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt. 5 For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised. 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 7 Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way. 8 When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.

9 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal*5:9 "Gilgal" sounds like the Hebrew for "roll." to this day. 10 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. 11 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day. 12 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

13 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our enemies?"

14 He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army."

Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"

15 The prince of Yahweh’s army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy." Joshua did so.