Joshua 5
1 And it comes to pass, when all the kings of the Amorite which [are] beyond the Jordan, toward the sea, and all the kings of the Canaanite which [are] by the sea, hear how that YHWH has dried up the waters of the Jordan at the presence of the sons of Israel until their passing over, that their heart is melted, and there has not been anymore spirit in them because of the presence of the sons of Israel.
住在約旦河西岸所有的阿摩黎人的王子，和所有靠近海濱的客納罕人的王子，一聽見上主使約旦河水在以色列子民面前乾涸了，直到他們都過了河，無不膽戰心驚，面對以色列子民，個個嚇得魂不附體。
2 At that time YHWH said to Joshua, “Make knives of flint for yourself, and return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time”;
那時上主對若蘇厄說：「你應製造火石刀，再給以色列子民行割損。」
3 and Joshua makes knives of flint for himself, and circumcises the sons of Israel at the height of the foreskins.
若蘇厄就製造了火石刀，在阿辣羅特山丘給以色列子民行了割損。
4 And this [is] the thing [for] which Joshua circumcises [them]: all the people who are coming out of Egypt, who are males, all the men of war have died in the wilderness, in the way, in their coming out of Egypt,
若蘇厄行割損的原因，是因為由埃及出來的眾，所有能作戰的男子，出埃及後，都死在曠野的路上。
5 for all the people who are coming out were circumcised, and all the people who [are] born in the wilderness, in the way, in their coming out from Egypt, they have not circumcised;
出離埃及的百姓，都受過割損，但在離開埃及以後，生於曠野路途的百姓，都沒有受過割損。
6 for forty years the sons of Israel have gone in the wilderness, until all the nation of the men of war who are coming out of Egypt, who did not listen to the voice of YHWH, to whom YHWH has sworn not to show them the land which YHWH swore to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey, are consumed;
以色列百姓在曠野裏漂泊了四十年，直到全民眾，即出離埃及能作的男子都去了世，因為他們沒有聽從上主的話，所以上主曾向他們起誓，決不讓他們看到上主向他們的祖先起誓，要賜給我們的那流奶流蜜的地方。
7 and He raised up their sons in their stead, Joshua has circumcised them, for they have been uncircumcised, for they have not circumcised them in the way.
但為接替他們，上主興起了他們的子孫，就給他們行了割損，──他們仍有包皮，因為他們在路沒有受過割損。
8 And it comes to pass, when all the nation has completed to be circumcised, that they abide in their places in the camp until their recovering;
民眾全受了割損以後，便往在營中，直到痊愈。
9 and YHWH says to Joshua, “Today I have rolled the reproach of Egypt from off you”; and [one] calls the name of that place Gilgal to this day.
上主於是對若蘇厄說：「今天我由你們割去了埃及的羞恥。」於是，那地方直到今天叫作基耳加耳。
10 And the sons of Israel encamp in Gilgal, and make the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the plains of Jericho;
以色列子民在基耳加耳紮了營；正月十四日晚上，在耶利哥平原舉行了逾越節。
11 and they eat of the old grain of the land on the next day of the Passover, unleavened things and roasted [grain], on this very same day;
逾越節次日，他們吃了當地的出產，即在那一天，吃了無酵餅和烤的麥子。
12 and the manna ceases on the next day in their eating of the old grain of the land, and there has been no more manna for [the] sons of Israel, and they eat of the increase of the land of Canaan in that year.
他們吃了當地出產的次日，「瑪納」就停止了。以色列子民既沒有了「瑪納」，那年就以客納罕地的出產為生。
13 And it comes to pass in Joshua’s being by Jericho, that he lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, [there is] one standing in front of him, and his drawn sword [is] in his hand, and Joshua goes to him, and says to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”
當若蘇厄走近耶利哥時，舉目一望，看見一個人立在他前面，手拿脫鞘的刀。若蘇厄走近那人面前問他說：「你是我們的人，還是我們仇敵的人﹖」
14 And He says, “No, for I [am] Prince of YHWH’s host; now I have come”; and Joshua falls on his face to the earth, and pays respect, and says to Him, “What is my Lord speaking to His servant?”
那人回答說：「不，我是上主軍旅的元帥，剛來到這裏。」若蘇厄便俯伏在地，向他下拜說：「我主有什麼事要指示自己的僕人呢﹖」
15 And the Prince of YHWH’s host says to Joshua, “Cast off your shoe from off your foot, for the place on which you are standing is holy”; and Joshua does so.
上主軍旅的元帥對若蘇厄說：「將你腳上鞋脫下，因為你站的地方是聖地。」若蘇厄便照著做了。
