Joshua 24
1 Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.
Jozye reyini tout branch fanmi pèp Izrayèl yo lavil Sichèm. Li fè rele tout chèf fanmi yo, tout lòt chèf yo, tout jij yo ak tout notab yo. Yo parèt devan lotèl Seyè a.
2 And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.
Jozye di pèp la konsa: -Men sa Seyè a, Bondye pèp Izrayèl la, di: Lontan lontan, zansèt nou yo, Terak ak de pitit gason l' yo, Abraram ak Nakò, t'ap viv nan yon peyi lòt bò larivyè Lefrat, kote yo t'ap sèvi lòt bondye.
3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.
Lè sa a, mwen pran Abraram lòt bò larivyè Lefrat la, mwen fè l' travèse tout peyi Kanaran an. Mwen ba li anpil pitit pitit. Pou konmanse, mwen ba li Izarak.
4 And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
Apre sa, mwen bay Izarak de pitit: Jakòb ak Ezaou. Mwen bay Ezaou tout mòn Seyi a pou li. Men Jakòb desann nan peyi Lejip ansanm ak tout pitit li yo.
5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out.
Apre sa, mwen voye Moyiz ak Arawon nan peyi Lejip. Mwen fè gwo malè tonbe sou peyi a pou pini moun li yo. Mwen fè nou soti kite peyi a.
6 I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fathers to the Red Sea, with their war-carriages and their horsemen.
Lè mwen fè zansèt nou yo soti kite peyi Lejip, yo rive bò lanmè Wouj la. Moun peyi Lejip yo pran kouri dèyè yo ak cha lagè yo ak kavalye yo jouk lanmè Wouj la.
7 And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.
Zansèt nou yo rele nan pye m', mwen mete yon fènwa nan mitan yo ak moun peyi Lejip yo. Mwen fè lanmè a vini sou moun peyi Lejip yo, li kouvri yo. Nou te wè ak je nou sa mwen te fè moun peyi Lejip yo. Apre sa, nou pase anpil tan ap viv nan dezè a.
8 And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.
Lèfini, mwen fè nou antre nan peyi moun Amori yo, lòt bò larivyè Jouden, sou bò solèy leve. Yo leve goumen ak nou. Men mwen lage yo nan men nou. Nou pran peyi yo a pou nou. Mwen disparèt yo devan nou kote nou pase.
9 Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:
Apre sa, Balak, pitit gason Zipò a, wa peyi Moab, leve vin fè nou lagè. Li fè chache Balaram, pitit gason Peyò a, pou l' vin ban nou madichon.
10 But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.
Men, mwen pa koute l'. Konsa, li te blije ban nou benediksyon. Se konsa mwen sove nou nan men Balak.
11 Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.
Lèfini, nou janbe lòt bò larivyè Jouden, nou rive lavil Jeriko. Moun ki te rete lavil Jeriko yo pran goumen ak nou. Moun Amori yo, moun Ferezi yo, moun Kanaran yo, moun Et yo, moun Gigach yo, moun Evi yo ak moun Jebis yo fè menm bagay la tou. Mwen lage yo tout nan men nou.
12 And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.
Mwen voye yon kantite gèp panyòl devan nou. Yo fè de wa moun Amori yo kouri met deyò anvan nou rive sou yo. Se pa t' ni banza nou yo ni nepe nou yo ki te fè sa!
13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.
Apre sa, mwen ban nou tè nou pa t' janm travay plante. Mwen ban nou anpil lavil nou pa t' janm bati. Se la nou rete koulye a. N'ap manje rezen nan pye rezen nou pa t' plante, oliv nan pye oliv nou pa t' plante.
14 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
Koulye a menm, se pou nou gen krentif pou Seyè a, se pou nou sèvi l' ak tout kè nou tout bon vre. Voye bondye zansèt nou yo te konn sèvi lòt bò larivyè Lefrat la ak nan peyi Lejip la jete! Sèvi Seyè a.
15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
Men, si nou pa vle sèvi Seyè a, depi koulye a chwazi sa nou vle sèvi a: oswa bondye zansèt nou yo t'ap sèvi nan peyi lòt bò larivyè Lefrat la, osinon bondye moun Amori yo t'ap sèvi nan peyi kote n'ap viv koulye a. Men, pou mwen menm ansanm ak tout moun lakay mwen, se Seyè a n'ap sèvi.
16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;
Pèp la reponn! -Nou p'ap janm fè lide vire do bay Seyè a pou n' al sèvi lòt bondye.
17 For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:
Se Seyè a, Bondye nou an, ki te fè nou soti ansanm ak zansèt nou yo nan esklavaj nou te ye nan peyi Lejip la. Se li menm ki te fè tout gwo mèvèy sa yo devan je nou. Se li menm ki te pwoteje nou tout kote nou pase, nan mitan tout nasyon sa yo, lè nou t'ap travèse peyi yo.
18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.
Se Seyè a ki te chase tout pèp sa yo pou yo te fè plas pou nou ansanm ak moun Amori yo ki te rete nan peyi a. Nou menm tou, se Seyè a n'ap sèvi, paske se limenm ki Bondye nou.
19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
Lè sa a, Jozye di pèp la: -Nou p'ap ka sèvi Seyè a, paske Seyè a se yon Bondye ki apa, yon Bondye ki fè jalouzi. Li p'ap janm padonnen peche nou yo ak sa n'ap fè ki mal.
20 If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
Si nou lage Seyè a, si n' al sèvi lòt bondye, Seyè a pral leve dèyè nou. Atout li te fin fè tout byen sa yo pou nou, l'a pini nou, l'a fini nèt ak nou.
21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
Pèp la reponn: -Non. Sa p'ap janm rive. Se Seyè a n'ap sèvi!
22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
Lè sa a, Jozye di pèp la: -Mwen pran nou sèvi temwen, se nou menm menm ki chwazi se Seyè a n'ap sèvi. Yo reponn: -Wi, nou tout temwen.
23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Jozye di yo lè sa a: -Koulye a, se pou nou pran tout bondye lòt pèp ki nan mitan nou ap sèvi yo, voye yo jete. Se pou nou apiye nèt ak tout kè nou sou Seyè a, Bondye pèp Izrayèl la.
24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
Pèp la reponn li: -Se Seyè a, Bondye nou an, n'ap sèvi. N'ap koute tou sa li di nou fè.
25 So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
Se konsa, jou sa a, Jozye pase yon kontra avèk pèp la lavil Sichèm. Li ba yo tout lwa ak tout regleman pou yo swiv.
26 And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.
Jozye ekri yo tout nan liv lalwa Bondye a. Li pran yon gwo wòch, li plante l' kanpe anba pye chenn ki te anndan kote yo te mete apa pou Seyè a.
27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
Epi Jozye di pèp la konsa: -Nou wè wòch sa a! Enben, l'ap sèvi yon mak pou l' fè nou chonje paske li te tande tout pawòl Seyè a te di nou. L'ap sèvi yon mak pou l' fè nou chonje pou nou pa janm vire do bay Bondye nou an!
28 Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.
Apre sa, Jozye voye pèp la ale, chak moun sou pòsyon tè ki te vin pou fanmi yo.
29 Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.
Apre tout bagay sa yo, Jozye, pitit gason Noun lan, sèvitè Seyè a, mouri. Li te gen sandizan (110 an).
30 And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash.
Yo antere l' sou tè ki te pou li a, nan zòn Timnat-Sera, nan mòn ki pou branch fanmi Efrayim lan, sou bò nò mòn Gach.
31 And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.
Pèp Izrayèl la te sèvi Seyè a pandan tout tan Jozye te vivan an, epi apre sa, pandan tout tan chèf ki te konnen sa Seyè a te fè pou pèp Izrayèl la te vivan toujou.
32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.
Pèp Izrayèl la te pran zosman Jozèf yo avèk yo lè yo t'ap soti kite peyi Lejip. Yo antere zosman yo sou moso tè Jakòb te achte nan men pitit Amò yo pou san pyès ajan. Se Amò sa a ki te papa Sichèm. Moso tè a rete pou pitit pitit Jozèf yo.
33 Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
Apre sa, lè Eleaza, pitit gason Arawon an, mouri, yo antere l' sou ti mòn ki te pou Fineas, pitit gason l' lan. Yo te ba li ti mòn sa a ki nan mitan mòn ki pou branch fanmi Efrayim lan.
