Joshua 3
1 Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They lodged there before they passed over.
यहोशू बिहान सबेरै उठे र तिनीहरू शित्तीमबाट हिँडे । तिनीहरू यर्दनमा आए अनि, तिनी र इस्राएलका सबै मानिसले पारि जानअगि त्यहीँ नै छाउनी हाले ।
2 It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;
तिन दिनपछि अधिकृतहरू छाउनीको बिच-बिचतिर गए;
3 and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of YHWH your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.
तिनीहरूले मानिसहरूलाई आज्ञा गरे, “जब तिमीहरूले परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरको करारको सन्दुक र लेवी कुलका पुजारीहरूले यसलाई बोकिरहेका देख्छौ, तिमीहरूले यो ठाउँलाई छोड्नुपर्छ र यसको पछि-पछि जानुपर्छ ।
4 However, keep a distance of about two thousand nine hundred fifty-three feet between yourselves and the ark. Do not come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before."
तिमीहरू र यसको बिचमा एक हजार मिटर फरक हुनुपर्छ । यसको नजिक नआओ, ताकि कुन बाटो जानुपर्ने हो, सो तिमीहरूले देख्न सक्ने छौ, किनभने तिमीहरू यो बाटोमा यसअगि हिँडेका छैनौ ।”
5 Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow YHWH will do wonders among you."
यहोशूले मानिसहरूलाई भने, “भोलिको निम्ति आ-आफूलाई शुद्ध पार, किनभने परमप्रभुले तिमीहरूमाझ अचम्मका कामहरू गर्नुहुने छ ।”
6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people." They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
योहोशूले पुजारीहरूलाई भने, “करारको सन्दुक लेओ र मानिसहरूको अगिअगि जाओ ।” त्यसैले तिनीहरूले करारको सन्दुक उठाए र मानिसहरूको अगिअगि गए ।
7 YHWH 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.
परमप्रभुले यहोशूलाई भन्नुभयो, “आज म तँलाई इस्राएलका मानिसहरूको नजरमा महान् व्यक्ति बनाउने छु । म जसरी मोशासँग थिएँ, त्यसै गरी म तँसँग पनि छु भनी तिनीहरूले जान्ने छन् ।
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.'"
तैँले करारको सन्दुक बोक्ने पुजारीहरूलाई आज्ञा दिने छस्, 'जब तिमीहरू यर्दनको पानीको छेउमा पुग्छौ, तिमीहरू यर्दन नदीमा नै उभिरहनुपर्छ' ।”
9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of YHWH your God."
अनि यहोशूले इस्राएलका मानिसहरूलाई भने, “यहाँ आओ, र परमप्रभु तिमीहरूका परमेश्वरको वचन सुन ।
10 Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hethite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.
परमेश्वर तिमीहरूमाझ हुनुहुन्छ र कनानीहरू, हित्तीहरू, हिव्वीहरू, परिज्जीहरू, गिर्गाशीहरू, एमोरीहरू र यबूसीहरूलाई तिमीहरूको अगिबाट धपाउनु हुनेछ भनी तिमीहरूले थाहा पाउने छौ ।
11 Look, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
हेर, सारा पृथ्वीका परमप्रभुको करारको सन्दुक यर्दन नदीमा तिमीहरूको अगिअगि जाने छ ।
12 Now therefore take twelve men from the children of Israel, one man for each tribe.
अब इस्राएलका हरेक कुलबाट एक-एक जना गरी बाह्र जना मानिस छान ।
13 It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of YHWH, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap."
जब सारा पृथ्वीका प्रभुहरूका परमप्रभुको करारको सन्दुक बोक्ने पुजारीहरूको खुट्टाले यर्दन नदीको पानी छुन्छ यर्दनको पानी रोकिने छ र माथिबाट तल बग्दै गरेको पानी पनि बग्न छोड्ने छ र त्यो एक थुप्रो भएर रहने छ ।
14 It happened, 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,
त्यसैले जब मानिसहरू यर्दन पारि जानलाई हिँडे, पुजारीहरूले करारको सन्दुकलाई बोकेर मानिसहरूको अगिअगि गए ।
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),
ती करारको सन्दुक बोक्नेहरू यर्दन नदीमा आउने र तिनीहरूका खुट्टाले पानी छुने बित्तिकै (कटनीको समयभरि नै यर्दन नदीको पानी यसको किनारासम्म पुग्छ)
16 that 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 right against Jericho.
माथिबाट तलतिर बग्दै गरेको पानी एक थुप्रो भई रोकियो ।
17 The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of YHWH stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
पानी निकै माथिदेखि नै बग्न छोड्यो । पानी सार्तान नजिकैको आदम नाम गरेको सहरबाट नेगेवको समुद्र अर्थात् मृत सागरसम्म नै बग्न छोड्यो । मानिसहरू यरीहो नजिकै पारि तरे । इस्राएलका मानिसहरूले सुक्खा भूमिमा पार नगरेसम्म परमप्रभुको करारको सन्दुक बोक्ने पुजारीहरू यर्दन नदीको बिचमा सुक्खा जमिनमा उभिए ।
