Joshua 3
1 And Joshua rises early in the morning, and they journey from Shittim, and come to the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they lodge there before they pass over.
若蘇厄清早起來，同所有的以色列子民由史廷出發，來到弓約旦河，住在那裏，等候過河。
2 And it comes to pass, at the end of three days, that the authorities pass over into the midst of the camp,
過了三天，官長走遍全營，
3 and command the people, saying, “When you see the Ark of the Covenant of your God YHWH, and the priests, the Levites, carrying it, then you journey from your place, and have gone after it;
吩咐百姓說：「你們一看見上主你們天主的約櫃，和抬約櫃的肋未人，他們便你們所住的地方起身，跟著它走，
4 only, a distance is between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; you do not come near to it, so that you know the way in which you go, for you have not passed over in the way before.”
好使你們知道你們應走的路，因為這條路你們從來沒有走過。但在你們與約櫃之間，相隔二千肘，不可走近約櫃。」
5 And Joshua says to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow YHWH does wonders in your midst.”
若蘇厄對百姓說：「你們應該自潔，因為上主明天要在你們中間行神蹟。
6 And Joshua speaks to the priests, saying, “Take up the Ark of the Covenant, and pass over before the people”; and they take up the Ark of the Covenant, and go before the people.
若蘇厄又吩咐司祭說：「你們抬起約櫃，在百姓前過河。」他們遂抬起約櫃，走在百姓前面。
7 And YHWH says to Joshua, “This day I begin to make you great in the eyes of all Israel, so that they know that as I was with Moses I am with you;
上主對若蘇厄說：「今天我要開始在眾以色列眼前顯揚你，使他們知道，我要與你同在，有如過去我與梅瑟同在一樣。
8 and you, command the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant, saying, When you come to the extremity of the waters of the Jordan, stand in the Jordan.”
你吩咐抬約櫃的司祭說：「你們一到約旦河的水邊，就停在約旦河邊。」
9 And Joshua says to the sons of Israel, “Come near here, and hear the words of your God YHWH”;
若蘇厄又吩咐以色列子民說：「他們前來靜聽上主你們天主的話。」
10 and Joshua says, “By this you know that the living God [is] in your midst, and He certainly dispossesses from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite:
若蘇厄遂說：「你們由此可知道，永生的天主是在你們中間，衪必由你們面前，將客納罕人、赫特人、希威人、培黎齊人、基爾加士人、阿摩黎人和耶步斯人趕走。
11 behold, the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan;
看，大地主宰的約櫃要在你們前面渡過約旦河。
12 and now, take for yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man—one man for a tribe;
現在，你們應從以色列支派中，挑選十二人，每支派一人。
13 and it has been, at the resting of the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the Ark of YHWH, Lord of all the earth, in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan are cut off—the waters which are coming down from above—and they stand—one heap.”
當抬大地的主宰上主約櫃的司祭的腳掌，一踏入約旦河的水，約旦河的水就必中斷，由上流下的水要停，像一道堤。
14 And it comes to pass, in the journeying of the people from their tents to pass over the Jordan, and of the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant before the people,
當百姓起程離開帳幕要到約旦河時，司祭抬著約櫃，走在百姓的前面。
15 and at those carrying the Ark coming to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the Ark have been dipped in the extremity of the waters (and the Jordan is full over all its banks all the days of harvest)—
當抬約櫃的司祭到了約旦河，他們的腳一踏入水邊，──原來約旦河在整個收割期間，水常漲至河岸──
16 that the waters stand; those coming down from above have risen—one heap, very far above Adam, the city which [is] at the side of Zaretan; and those going down by the Sea of the Plain (the Salt Sea), have been completely cut off; and the people have passed through opposite Jericho;
水就停住了：由上流下的水像一道堤，停在很遠的地方，遠至匝爾堂附近的阿當城；往下流入的水像一道堤，停在很遠的地方，遠至匝爾堂附近的阿當城；往下流入阿辣巴海，即鹽海的水，已全退去；於是百姓在耶利哥對面過了河。
17 and the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH stand on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan—established, and all Israel are passing over on dry ground until all the nation has completed to pass over the Jordan.
當全以色列人在旱地上渡過時，抬上主約櫃的司祭穩立在約旦河中的旱地上直到全民眾都渡過約旦河。
