Josué 3

1 Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over. 2 After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp; 3 and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it. 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits*3:4 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters, so 2,000 cubits is about 920 meters. by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before."

5 Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you."

6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people." They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

7 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. 8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’"

9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God." 10 Joshua said, "By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you. 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord*3:11 The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai." of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan. 12 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. 13 It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap."

14 When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people, 15 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), 16 the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho. 17 The priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.

Ka Whakawhiti ngā Iwi Īharaira i Horano

1 Nā, ka maranga wawe a Hohua i te ata, ā, ka tūria atu e rātou i Hitimi, ka tae ki Horano, ā, ia me ngā tama katoa a Īharaira, ā, moe ana ki reira i te mea kīanō i whiti noa. 2 Nā, i te paunga o ngā rā e toru, ka haere ngā rangatira nā waenganui o te puni; 3 ā, ka whakahau i te iwi, ka mea, "E kite koutou i te āka o te kawenata a Ihowā, a tō koutou Atua, i ngā tohunga hoki, i ngā Rīwaiti e amo ana, hei konā ka whakatika atu i ō koutou nohoanga, ka haere i muri. 4 Otiia, kia whai takiwā ki waenganui o koutou, o taua mea; kia rua mano whatīanga, he mea whanganga, mārie; kaua e whakatata ki taua mea, kia mōhio ai koutou ki te huarahi e haere ai koutou; kāhore nei hoki koutou i haere i tēnā huarahi i mua ake nei."

5 Ā, i mea anō a Hohua ki te iwi, "Whakatapu i a koutou; ko āpōpō hoki a Ihowā mahi ai i ngā mea whakamīharo ki waenganui i a koutou." 6 I mea anō a Hohua ki ngā tohunga, "Hāpainga ake te āka o te kawenata, haere i mua i te iwi." Ā, hāpainga ana e rātou te āka o te kawenata, ā, haere ana i mua i te iwi.

7 Ā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Hohua, "Ko āianei ahau tīmata ai te whakanui i a koe ki te aroaro o Īharaira katoa kia mōhio ai rātou, i a Mohi ahau, ka pērā anō ahau ki a koe. 8 Ā, māu e whakahau ki ngā tohunga e amo ana i te āka o te kawenata, e mea, ‘E tae koutou ki te tapa o te wai o Horano, me āta tū i roto i Horano.’ "

9 Nā, ka mea a Hohua ki ngā tama a Īharaira, "Haere mai, whakarongo ki ngā kupu a Ihowā, a tō koutou Atua." 10 Nā, ka mea a Hohua, "Mā konei koutou ka mōhio ai kei roto i a koutou te Atua ora, ā, ka peia rawatia e ia i tō koutou aroaro ngā Kanaani, ngā Hiti, ngā Hiwi, ngā Perihi, ngā Kirikahi, ngā Amori, me ngā Iepuhi. 11 Nanā, ko te āka o te kawenata a te Ariki o te ao katoa te haere nei i mua i a koutou ki roto o Horano. 12 Nā, motuhia ki a koutou kia tekau mā rua tāngata o ngā iwi o Īharaira, kia takikotahi te tangata o te iwi. 13 Ā, ina tatū ngā kapu o ngā waewae o ngā tohunga e amo ana i te āka a Ihowā, a te Ariki o te ao katoa, ki ngā wai o Horano, ka motuhia ngā wai o Horano, arā ngā wai e rere mai ana i runga; ā, ka tū ake, kotahi anō pūranga."

14 Ā, nō te haerenga atu o te iwi i ō rātou tēneti ki te whakawhiti i Horano, me ngā tohunga hoki e amo ana i te āka o te kawenata i mua i te iwi. 15 Ā, i te taenga o ngā kaiamo i te āka ki Horano, i te tukunga atu hoki o ngā waewae o ngā tohunga e amo ana i te āka ki te taha o te wai; e ngawhā ana hoki a Horano ki runga i ōna pareparenga katoa i ngā rā katoa o te kotinga; 16 ko te tino tūranga o ngā wai e heke iho ana i runga, ara ake ana kotahi anō pūranga, i tawhiti noa atu i te pā i Ārama, i te taha o Haretana; ā, ko ngā wai e rere iho ana ki te moana o te mānia, ki te Moana Tote, mimiti ana, motu kē atu ana; ā, whiti ana te iwi i te ritenga atu o Heriko. 17 Ā, tū mārie ana ngā tohunga i amo nei i te āka o te kawenata a Ihowā i te wāhi maroke i waenganui o Horano, me te haere anō a Īharaira katoa ki tāwāhi nā te wāhi maroke, ā poto noa te iwi katoa te whiti i Horano.