Joshua 22

1 Then, called Joshua—for the Reubenites, and for the Gadites, —and for the half tribe of Manasseh;

١ حِينَئِذٍ دَعَا يَشُوعُ ٱلرَّأُوبَيْنِيِّينَ وَٱلْجَادِيِّينَ وَنِصْفَ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى،

2 and said unto them, Ye, have observed all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, —and have hearkened unto my voice, in all that I commanded you:

٢ وَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «إِنَّكُمْ قَدْ حَفِظْتُمْ كُلَّ مَا أَمَرَكُمْ بِهِ مُوسَى عَبْدُ ٱلرَّبِّ، وَسَمِعْتُمْ صَوْتِي فِي كُلِّ مَا أَمَرْتُكُمْ بِهِ،

3 ye have not forsaken your brethren, these many days, unto this day, —but have kept the charge of the commandment of Yahweh your God.

٣ وَلَمْ تَتْرُكُوا إِخْوَتَكُمْ هَذِهِ ٱلْأَيَّامَ ٱلْكَثِيرَةَ إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ، وَحَفِظْتُمْ مَا يُحْفَظُ، وَصِيَّةُ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ.

4 Now, therefore, that Yahweh your God hath given rest unto your brethren, according as he spake unto them, —now, therefore, turn ye and get you to your homes within the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave unto you, over the Jordan.

٤ وَٱلْآنَ قَدْ أَرَاحَ ٱلرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ إِخْوَتَكُمْ كَمَا قَالَ لَهُمْ. فَٱنْصَرِفُوا ٱلْآنَ وَٱذْهَبُوا إِلَى خِيَامِكُمْ فِي أَرْضِ مُلْكِكُمُ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَاكُمْ مُوسَى عَبْدُ ٱلرَّبِّ، فِي عَبْرِ ٱلْأُرْدُنِّ.

5 Only, take ye diligent heed, to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you—to love Yahweh your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, —and to serve him—with all your heart, and with all your soul.

٥ وَإِنَّمَا ٱحْرِصُوا جِدًّا أَنْ تَعْمَلُوا ٱلْوَصِيَّةَ وَٱلشَّرِيعَةَ ٱلَّتِي أَمَرَكُمْ بِهَا مُوسَى عَبْدُ ٱلرَّبِّ: أَنْ تُحِبُّوا ٱلرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ، وَتَسِيرُوا فِي كُلِّ طُرُقِهِ، وَتَحْفَظُوا وَصَايَاهُ، وَتَلْصَقُوا بِهِ وَتَعْبُدُوهُ بِكُلِّ قَلْبِكُمْ وَبِكُلِّ نَفْسِكُمْ».

6 So Joshua blessed them, —and sent them away, and they took their journey unto their homes.

٦ ثُمَّ بَارَكَهُمْ يَشُوعُ وَصَرَفَهُمْ، فَذَهَبُوا إِلَى خِيَامِهِمْ.

7 Now, unto the [one] half tribe of Manesseh, had Moses given a possession in Bashan, and, unto the [other] half, did Joshua give possession with their brethren, over the Jordan, westward, —moreover also, when Joshua sent them away unto their homes, he blessed them,

٧ وَلِنِصْفِ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى أَعْطَى مُوسَى فِي بَاشَانَ، وَأَمَّا نِصْفُهُ ٱلْآخَرُ فَأَعْطَاهُمْ يَشُوعُ مَعَ إِخْوَتِهِمْ فِي عَبْرِ ٱلْأُرْدُنِّ غَرْبًا. وَعِنْدَمَا صَرَفَهُمْ يَشُوعُ أَيْضًا إِلَى خِيَامِهِمْ بَارَكَهُمْ

8 and spake unto them, saying—With much wealth, return ye unto your homes, even with very much cattle, with silver and with gold, and with copper and with iron, and with very much raiment, —divide ye the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

٨ وَكَلَّمَهُمْ قَائِلًا: «بِمَالٍ كَثِيرٍ ٱرْجِعُوا إِلَى خِيَامِكُمْ، وَبِمَوَاشٍ كَثِيرَةٍ جِدًّا، بِفِضَّةٍ وَذَهَبٍ وَنُحَاسٍ وَحَدِيدٍ وَمَلَابِسَ كَثِيرَةٍ جِدًّا. اِقْسِمُوا غَنِيمَةَ أَعْدَائِكُمْ مَعَ إِخْوَتِكُمْ».

9 So the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh. returned and departed from the sons of Israel, from Shiloh, which was in the land of Canaan, —to go unto the land of Gilead, unto the land of their possession, wherein they had received their possessions, at the bidding of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.

٩ فَرَجَعَ بَنُو رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنُو جَادَ وَنِصْفُ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى، وَذَهَبُوا مِنْ عِنْدِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ شِيلُوهَ ٱلَّتِي فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ لِكَيْ يَسِيرُوا إِلَى أَرْضِ جِلْعَادَ، أَرْضِ مُلْكِهِمِ ٱلَّتِي تَمَلَّكُوا بِهَا حَسَبَ قَوْلِ ٱلرَّبِّ عَلَى يَدِ مُوسَى.

10 And, when they came into the circles of the Jordan, which were in the land of Canaan, —then did the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh build there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of large dimensions,

١٠ وَجَاءُوا إِلَى دَائِرَةِ ٱلْأُرْدُنِّ ٱلَّتِي فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ. وَبَنَى بَنُو رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنُو جَادَ وَنِصْفُ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى هُنَاكَ مَذْبَحًا عَلَى ٱلْأُرْدُنِّ، مَذْبَحًا عَظِيمَ ٱلْمَنْظَرِ.

11 And the sons of Israel heard say, —Lo! the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in front of the land of Canaan, in the circles of the Jordan, in the region opposite the sons of Israel.

١١ فَسَمِعَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ قَوْلًا: «هُوَذَا قَدْ بَنَى بَنُو رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنُو جَادَ وَنِصْفُ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى مَذْبَحًا فِي وَجْهِ أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ، فِي دَائِرَةِ ٱلْأُرْدُنِّ مُقَابِلَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ».

12 And, when the sons of Israel heard, all the assembly of the sons of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.

١٢ وَلَمَّا سَمِعَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ ٱجْتَمَعَتْ كُلُّ جَمَاعَةِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي شِيلُوهَ لِكَيْ يَصْعَدُوا إِلَيْهِمْ لِلْحَرْبِ.

13 And the sons of Israel sent unto the sons of Reuben and unto the sons of Gad and unto the half tribe of Manasseh, within the land of Gilead, —Phinehas, son of Eleazar the priest;

١٣ فَأَرْسَلَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى بَنِي رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنِي جَادَ وَنِصْفِ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى إِلَى أَرْضِ جِلْعَادَ، فِينَحَاسَ بْنَ أَلِعَازَارَ ٱلْكَاهِنَ

14 and ten princes with him, one prince of an ancestral house for each of the tribes of Israel, —they being, severally heads of their ancestral houses, among the thousands of Israel.

١٤ وَعَشْرَةَ رُؤَسَاءَ مَعَهُ، رَئِيسًا وَاحِدًا مِنْ كُلِّ بَيْتِ أَبٍ مِنْ جَمِيعِ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ رَئِيسُ بَيْتِ آبَائِهِمْ فِي أُلُوفِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

15 So they came in unto the sons of Reuben and unto the sons of Gad and unto the half tribe of Manasseh, within the land of Gilead, —and spake with them, saying:

١٥ فَجَاءُوا إِلَى بَنِي رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنِي جَادَ وَنِصْفِ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى إِلَى أَرْضِ جِلْعَادَ، وَكَلَّمُوهُمْ قَائِلِينَ:

16 Thus, say all the assembly of Yahweh—What is this act of treachery which ye have committed against the God of Israel, that ye should turn back, to-day, from following Yahweh, —in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel, to-day, against Yahweh?

١٦ «هَكَذَا قَالَتْ كُلُّ جَمَاعَةِ ٱلرَّبِّ: مَا هَذِهِ ٱلْخِيَانَةُ ٱلَّتِي خُنْتُمْ بِهَا إِلَهَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، بِٱلرُّجُوعِ ٱلْيَوْمَ عَنِ ٱلرَّبِّ، بِبُنْيَانِكُمْ لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ مَذْبَحًا لِتَتَمَرَّدُوا ٱلْيَوْمَ عَلَى ٱلرَّبِّ؟

17 Too little for us, was the iniquity of Peor, from which we have not cleansed ourselves, unto this day, —although the plague came upon the assembly of Yahweh;

١٧ أَقَلِيلٌ لَنَا إِثْمُ فَغُورَ ٱلَّذِي لَمْ نَتَطَهَّرْ مِنْهُ إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ، وَكَانَ ٱلْوَبَأُ فِي جَمَاعَةِ ٱلرَّبِّ،

18 but that, ye, must turn back to-day from following Yahweh, —though it must needs be that, if, ye, rebel to-day against Yahweh, then, to-morrow, with all the assembly of Israel, will he be wroth?

١٨ حَتَّى تَرْجِعُوا أَنْتُمُ ٱلْيَوْمَ عَنِ ٱلرَّبِّ؟ فَيَكُونُ أَنَّكُمُ ٱلْيَوْمَ تَتَمَرَّدُونَ عَلَى ٱلرَّبِّ، وَهُوَ غَدًا يَسْخَطُ عَلَى كُلِّ جَمَاعَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

19 Howbeit, if, unclean, be the land of your possession, do ye on your part come over into the land of the possession of Yahweh, where abideth the habitation of Yahweh, and take your possession in our midst, —but, against Yahweh, do not rebel, nor, against us, rebel, by building yourselves an altar apart from the altar of Yahweh our God.

١٩ وَلَكِنْ إِذَا كَانَتْ نَجِسَةً أَرْضُ مُلْكِكُمْ فَٱعْبُرُوا إِلَى أَرْضِ مُلْكِ ٱلرَّبِّ ٱلَّتِي يَسْكُنُ فِيهَا مَسْكَنُ ٱلرَّبِّ وَتَمَلَّكُوا بَيْنَنَا، وَعَلَى ٱلرَّبِّ لَا تَتَمَرَّدُوا، وَعَلَيْنَا لَا تَتَمَرَّدُوا بِبِنَائِكُمْ لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ مَذْبَحًا غَيْرَ مَذْبَحِ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا.

20 Did not, Achan son of Zerah, commit an act of treachery, with a devoted thing, and, upon all the assembly of Israel, came wrath, —so that not, he—one man alone, died in his iniquity.

٢٠ أَمَا خَانَ عَخَانُ بْنُ زَارَحَ خِيَانَةً فِي ٱلْحَرَامِ، فَكَانَ ٱلسَّخَطُ عَلَى كُلِّ جَمَاعَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَهُوَ رَجُلٌ لَمْ يَهْلِكْ وَحْدَهُ بِإِثْمِهِ؟».

21 Then responded the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh, —and spake unto the heads of the thousands of Israel:

٢١ فَأَجَابَ بَنُو رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنُو جَادَ وَنِصْفُ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى وَقَالُوا لِرُؤَسَاءِ أُلُوفِ إِسْرَائِيلَ:

22 El-Elohim-Yahweh, El-Elohim-Yahweh, he knoweth, and, Israel, he, shall know, —if in rebellion, or if in treachery, against Yahweh, do not save us this day:

٢٢ «إِلَهُ ٱلْآلِهَةِ ٱلرَّبُّ، إِلَهُ ٱلْآلِهَةِ ٱلرَّبُّ هُوَ يَعْلَمُ، وَإِسْرَائِيلُ سَيَعْلَمُ. إِنْ كَانَ بِتَمَرُّدٍ وَإِنْ كَانَ بِخِيَانَةٍ عَلَى ٱلرَّبِّ، لَا تُخَلِّصْنَا هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمَ.

23 that we should build for ourselves an altar, to turn back from following Yahweh, —or, if that we might cause to go up thereon ascending-sacrifice or meal-offering, or if that we might offer thereon peace-offerings, let Yahweh himself require it;

٢٣ بُنْيَانُنَا لِأَنْفُسِنَا مَذْبَحًا لِلرُّجُوعِ عَنِ ٱلرَّبِّ، أَوْ لِإِصْعَادِ مُحْرَقَةٍ عَلَيْهِ أَوْ تَقْدِمَةٍ أَوْ لِعَمَلِ ذَبَائِحِ سَلَامَةٍ عَلَيْهِ، فَٱلرَّبُّ هُوَ يُطَالِبُ.

24 if, indeed, we have not, rather, out of anxiety and of purpose, done this thing, saying, —. In time to come, your sons might speak to our sons, saying, What have ye to do with Yahweh, God of Israel;

٢٤ وَإِنْ كُنَّا لَمْ نَفْعَلْ ذَلِكَ خَوْفًا وَعَنْ سَبَبٍ قَائِلِينَ: غَدًا يُكَلِّمُ بَنُوكُمْ بَنِينَا قَائِلِينَ: مَا لَكُمْ وَلِلرَّبِّ إِلَهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ!

25 seeing that, a boundary, hath Yahweh put between us and you, ye sons of Reuben and ye sons of Gad—even the Jordan, ye have no portion in Yahweh, —so might your sons cause our sons, to cease from revering Yahweh.

٢٥ قَدْ جَعَلَ ٱلرَّبُّ تُخْمًا بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمْ يَا بَنِي رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنِي جَادَ: ٱلْأُرْدُنُّ. لَيْسَ لَكُمْ قِسْمٌ فِي ٱلرَّبِّ. فَيَرُدُّ بَنُوكُمْ بَنِينَا حَتَّى لَا يَخَافُوا ٱلرَّبَّ.

26 We said, therefore, Let us prepare, we pray you, to build us an altar, —not for ascending-offering, nor for sacrifice;

٢٦ فَقُلْنَا نَصْنَعُ نَحْنُ لِأَنْفُسِنَا. نَبْنِي مَذْبَحًا، لَا لِلْمُحْرَقَةِ وَلَا لِلذَّبِيحَةِ،

27 but that, a witness, it may be between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we are to do the service of Yahweh, before him, with our ascending-offerings and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings, —that your sons may not say, in time to come, to our sons, Ye have no portion in Yahweh.

٢٧ بَلْ لِيَكُونَ هُوَ شَاهِدًا بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَ أَجْيَالِنَا بَعْدَنَا، لِكَيْ نَخْدُمَ خِدْمَةَ ٱلرَّبِّ أَمَامَهُ بِمُحْرَقَاتِنَا وَذَبَائِحِنَا وَذَبَائِحِ سَلَامَتِنَا، وَلَا يَقُولُ بَنُوكُمْ غَدًا لِبَنِينَا: لَيْسَ لَكُمْ قِسْمٌ فِي ٱلرَّبِّ.

28 Therefore said we, And it shall be, when they [so] say to us, or to our generations, in time to come, —that we will say—Behold ye the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for ascending-offerings nor for sacrifice, but that, a witness, it might be between us and you.

٢٨ وَقُلْنَا: يَكُونُ مَتَى قَالُوا كَذَا لَنَا وَلِأَجْيَالِنَا غَدًا، أَنَّنَا نَقُولُ: اُنْظُرُوا شِبْهَ مَذْبَحِ ٱلرَّبِّ ٱلَّذِي عَمِلَ آبَاؤُنَا، لَا لِلْمُحْرَقَةِ وَلَا لِلذَّبِيحَةِ، بَلْ هُوَ شَاهِدٌ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمْ.

29 Far be it from us—that we should rebel against Yahweh, or turn back, to-day, from following Yahweh, by building an altar, for ascending-offering, or meal-offering or for sacrifice, —other than the altar of Yahweh our God, which is before his habitation.

٢٩ حَاشَا لَنَا مِنْهُ أَنْ نَتَمَرَّدَ عَلَى ٱلرَّبِّ وَنَرْجِعَ ٱلْيَوْمَ عَنِ ٱلرَّبِّ لِبِنَاءِ مَذْبَحٍ لِلْمُحْرَقَةِ أَوِ ٱلتَّقْدِمَةِ أَوِ ٱلذَّبِيحَةِ، عَدَا مَذْبَحِ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا ٱلَّذِي هُوَ قُدَّامَ مَسْكَنِهِ».

30 And, when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the assembly, even the heads of the thousands of Israel who were with him, heard the words which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spake, then was it well-pleasing in their eyes.

٣٠ فَسَمِعَ فِينْحَاسُ ٱلْكَاهِنُ وَرُؤَسَاءُ ٱلْجَمَاعَةِ وَرُؤُوسُ أُلُوفِ إِسْرَائِيلَ ٱلَّذِينَ مَعَهُ ٱلْكَلَامَ ٱلَّذِي تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ بَنُو رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنُو جَادَ وَبَنُو مَنَسَّى، فَحَسُنَ فِي أَعْيُنِهِمْ.

31 And Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said unto the sons of Reuben and unto the sons of Gad and unto the sons of Manasseh—To-day, we know that, in our midst, is Yahweh, in that ye have not committed, against Yahweh, this act of treachery, —now, have ye rescued the sons of Israel out of the hand of Yahweh.

٣١ فَقَالَ فِينْحَاسُ بْنُ أَلِعَازَارَ ٱلْكَاهِنِ لِبَنِي رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنِي جَادَ وَبَنِي مَنَسَّى: «ٱلْيَوْمَ عَلِمْنَا أَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ بَيْنَنَا لِأَنَّكُمْ لَمْ تَخُونُوا ٱلرَّبَّ بِهَذِهِ ٱلْخِيَانَةِ. فَٱلْآنَ قَدْ أَنْقَذْتُمْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ يَدِ ٱلرَّبِّ».

32 So Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest and the princes returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, unto the sons of Israel, —and brought them back word.

٣٢ ثُمَّ رَجَعَ فِينْحَاسُ بْنُ أَلِعَازَارَ ٱلكَاهِنِ وَٱلرُّؤَسَاءُ مِنْ عِنْدِ بَنِي رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنِي جَادَ مِنْ أَرْضِ جِلْعَادَ إِلَى أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ إِلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَرَدُّوا عَلَيْهِمْ خَبَرًا.

33 And the thing was well-pleasing in the eyes of the sons of Israel, and the sons of Israel blessed God, —and spake not of going up against them, to war, to lay waste the land, wherein the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad dwelt.

٣٣ فَحَسُنَ ٱلْأَمْرُ فِي أَعْيُنِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَبَارَكَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ ٱللهَ، وَلَمْ يَفْتَكِرُوا بِٱلصُّعُودِ إِلَيْهِمْ لِلْحَرْبِ وَتَخْرِيبِ ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي كَانَ بَنُو رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنُو جَادَ سَاكِنِينَ بِهَا.

34 So the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad named the altar [a Witness]: A witness, it is between us, That, Yahweh, is God.

٣٤ وَسَمَّى بَنُو رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنُو جَادَ ٱلْمَذْبَحَ «عِيدًا» لِأَنَّهُ «شَاهِدٌ بَيْنَنَا أَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ هُوَ ٱللهُ».