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 And it cometh to pass, when all the nation hath completed to pass over the Jordan, that Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua, saying,
2 `Take for you out of the people twelve men, one man -- one man out of a tribe;
3 and command ye them, saying, Take up for you from this [place], from the midst of the Jordan, from the established standing-place of the feet of the priests, twelve stones, and ye have removed them over with you, and placed them in the lodging-place in which ye lodge to-night.`
4 And Joshua calleth unto the twelve men whom he prepared out of the sons of Israel, one man -- one man out of a tribe;
5 and Joshua saith to them, `Pass over before the ark of Jehovah your God unto the midst of the Jordan and lift up for you each, one stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel,
6 so that this is a sign in your midst, when your children ask hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones to you?
7 that ye have said to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off, at the presence of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; in its passing over into the Jordan were the waters of the Jordan cut off; and these stones have been for a memorial to the sons of Israel -- to the age.`
8 And the sons of Israel do so as Joshua commanded, and take up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah hath spoken unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and remove them over with them unto the lodging-place, and place them there,
9 even the twelve stones hath Joshua raised up out of the midst of the Jordan, the place of the standing of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant, and they are there unto this day.
10 And the priests bearing the ark are standing in the midst of the Jordan till the completion of the whole thing which Jehovah commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua, and the people haste and pass over.
11 And it cometh to pass when all the people have completed to pass over, that the ark of Jehovah passeth over, and the priests, in the presence of the people;
12 and the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, pass over, by fifties, before the sons of Israel, as Moses had spoken unto them;
13 about forty thousand, armed ones of the host, passed over before Jehovah for battle, unto the plains of Jericho.
14 On that day hath Jehovah made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel, and they reverence him, as they reverenced Moses, all days of his life.
15 And Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua, saying,
16 `Command the priests bearing the ark of the testimony, and they come up out of the Jordan.`
17 And Joshua commandeth the priests, saying, `Come ye up out of the Jordan.`
18 And it cometh to pass, in the coming up of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the midst of the Jordan -- the soles of the feet of the priests have been drawn up into the dry ground -- and the waters of the Jordan turn back to their place, and go as heretofore over all its banks.
19 And the people have come up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and encamp in Gilgal, in the extremity east of Jericho;
20 and these twelve stones, which they have taken out of the Jordan, hath Joshua raised up in Gilgal.
21 And he speaketh unto the sons of Israel, saying, `When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones?
22 then ye have caused your sons to know, saying, On dry land Israel passed over this Jordan;
23 because Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan at your presence, till your passing over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea which He dried up at our presence till our passing over;
24 so that all the people of the land do know the hand of Jehovah that it [is] strong, so that ye have reverenced Jehovah your God all the days.`