Josué 5

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.

Te Kotinga i Kirikara

1 Ā, nō te rongonga o ngā kīngi katoa o ngā Amori, o ērā ki te taha ki te hauāuru o Horano, me ngā kīngi katoa o ngā Kanaani, o ērā i te moana, ki te whakamaroketanga a Ihowā i ngā wai o Horano i te aroaro o ngā tama a Īharaira ā whiti noa mātou, nā, ka ngohe noa ō rātou ngākau, kāhore atu hoki ō rātou wairua, i te wehi ki ngā tama a Īharaira.

2 Nā, i taua wā ka mea a Ihowā ki a Hohua, "Hangā ētahi māripi kōhatu māu, ā, ka tuarua i te kotinga o ngā tama a Īharaira." 3 Ā, hangā ana e Hohua ētahi māripi kōhatu, ā, kotia iho ngā tama a Īharaira ki te pukepuke o ngā kiri matamata.

4 Ā, ko te take tēnei i kokoti ai a Hohua: ko te hunga katoa i puta mai i Īhipa, ko ngā tāne, ko ngā tāngata hāpai patu, i mate ki te ara i te koraha, i muri i tō rātou putanga mai i Īhipa. 5 Nā, ko te hunga katoa i puta mai he mea kokoti katoa; tēnā ko te hunga i whānau ki te ara i te koraha i tō rātou putanga mai i Īhipa, kīhai ēnā i kotia e rātou. 6 E whā tekau hoki ngā tau i haere ai ngā tama a Īharaira i te koraha, ā poto noa te hunga hāpai patu katoa i puta mai i Īhipa, mō rātou kīhai i rongo ki te reo o Ihowā; ko ngā tāngata hoki i oati nei a Ihowā ki a rātou, e kore e whakakitea ki a rātou te whenua i oati ai a Ihowā ki ō rātou mātua kia hōmai e ia ki a tātou, te whenua hoki e rerengia ana e te waiū, e te honi. 7 Ā, ko ā rātou tamariki i whakaarahia ake e ia hei whakakapi mō rātou, ko rātou i kotia e Hohua; nō te mea kāhore ō rātou kotinga; kāhore nei hoki rātou i kotia i te huarahi.

8 Ā, nō ka poto katoa ngā tāngata te kokoti e rātou, ka noho rātou ki te puni ki ō rātou wāhi ā mahu noa. 9 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Hohua, "Nō tēnei rā i hurihia atu ai e ahau te taunutanga o Īhipa i a koutou." Nā reira i huaina ai te ingoa o taua wāhi ko Kirikara ā tae noa mai ki tēnei rā.

Te Kapenga i Kirikara

10 Ā, i noho ngā tama a Īharaira ki Kirikara; ā, i mahi rātou i te Kapenga i te tekau mā whā o ngā rā o te marama i te ahiahi, i ngā mānia o Heriko. 11 Ā, nō te aonga ake i te Kapenga, i kai ai rātou i te wīti o te whenua, he keke kīhai i rēwenatia, me te wīti pāhūhū, nō taua rangi pū anō. 12 Ā, i whakamutua te mana i te aonga ake o te rā, i muri i tā rātou kainga i te wīti ake o te whenua; kāhore atu hoki he mana mā ngā tama a Īharaira; heoti, kai ana rātou i ngā hua o te whenua o Kanaana i taua tau.

Ko Hohua me te Tāne mau Hoari

13 Ā, i a Hohua i Heriko, nā, ka anga ake ōna kanohi, ka titiro, nā, he tangata e tū mai ana i tōna aroaro, ko tāna hoari hoki i tōna ringa, unu rawa. Nā, ka haere atu a Hohua ki a ia, ka mea ki a ia, "Mō mātou rānei koe, mō ō mātou hoariri rānei?"

14 Ka mea ia, "Kāhore; engari he rangatira nō te ope a Ihowā ahau i haere mai nei." Nā, ka tāpapa a Hohua ki te whenua, ka koropiko, ka mea ki a ia, "E pēhea mai ana tōku ariki ki tāna pononga?"

15 Ā, ka mea te rangatira o te ope a Ihowā ki a Hohua, "Wetekina tōu hū i tōu waewae; he tapu hoki te wāhi e tū nā koe." Ā, pērā ana a Hohua.