Joshua 22
1 Joshua then summoned the leaders of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh.
| ثُمَّ اسْتَدْعَى يَشُوعُ الرَّأُوبَيْنِيِّينَ وَالْجَادِيِّينَ وَنِصْفَ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى، | ١ |
2 He said to them, “You have done everything that Moses, who served Yahweh [well], told you to do. You have also done what I told you to do.
| وَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «لَقَدْ وَفَيْتُمْ بِكُلِّ مَا أَوْصَاكُمْ بِهِ مُوسَى عَبْدُ الرَّبِّ، وَأَطَعْتُمْ كَلامِي فِي كُلِّ مَا أَمَرْتُكُمْ بِهِ. | ٢ |
3 For a long time you have helped the other tribes [to defeat their enemies]. You have obeyed everything that Yahweh your God commanded you to do.
| وَلَمْ تَتَخَلَّوْا عَنْ إِخْوَتِكُمْ طَوَالَ هَذِهِ الأَيَّامِ الْكَثِيرَةِ حَتَّى هَذِهِ اللَّحْظَةِ، بَلْ نَفَّذْتُمُ الْمُهِمَّةَ الَّتِي أَوْكَلَهَا إِلَيْكُمُ الرَّبُّ. | ٣ |
4 He promised to give peace to us Israelis, and he has done what he promised. So now you may go back to your homes, to the land that Moses gave to you, on the east side of the Jordan [River].
| وَهَا الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمُ الآنَ قَدْ أَرَاحَ إِخْوَتَكُمْ كَمَا وَعَدَهُمْ، فَانْصَرِفُوا إِلَى خِيَامِكُمْ وَإِلَى أَرْضِ مِلْكِكُمُ الَّتِي وَهَبَهَا لَكُمْ مُوسَى عَبْدُ الرَّبِّ فِي شَرْقِيِّ الأُرْدُنِّ. | ٤ |
5 Moses also commanded you to love Yahweh your God and to obey his commands, and to continue to worship him and serve him by everything that you think and everything that you do.”
| إِنَّمَا احْرِصُوا جِدّاً عَلَى مُمَارَسَةِ الْوَصِيَّةِ وَالشَّرِيعَةِ الَّتِي أَمَرَكُمْ بِها مُوسَى عَبْدُ الرَّبِّ، وَهِيَ أَنْ تُحِبُّوا الرَّبَّ إِلَهَكُمْ وَتَسْلُكُوا فِي كُلِّ سُبُلِهِ وَتُطِيعُوا وَصَايَاهُ وَتَتَمَسَّكُوا بِهِ وَتَعْبُدُوهُ مِنْ كُلِّ قُلُوبِكُمْ وَنُفُوسِكُمْ». | ٥ |
6 Then Joshua blessed them and said goodbye to them, and they [prepared to] leave and return to their homes [on the east side of the Jordan River].
| ثُمَّ بَارَكَهُمْ يَشُوعُ وَأَطْلَقَهُمْ، فَمَضَوْا إِلَى خِيَامِهِمْ. | ٦ |
7 Moses had given the Bashan region to half the tribe of Manasseh, and land on the west side of the Jordan [River] to the other half of the tribe. Before they left, he [asked God to] bless them.
| وَكَانَ مُوسَى قَدْ وَهَبَ لِنِصْفِ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى مِلْكاً فِي بَاشَانَ، أَمَّا نِصْفُهُ الآخَرُ فَقَدْ أَعْطَاهُمْ يَشُوعُ مِيرَاثاً مَعَ إِخْوَتِهِمْ غَرْبِيَّ نَهْرِ الأُرْدُنِّ. وَعِنْدَمَا أَطْلَقَهُمْ يَشُوعُ أَيْضاً إِلَى خِيَامِهِمْ بَارَكَهُمْ | ٧ |
8 He said, “Go back to your homes and to all the things that you have taken from your enemies—the many animals and silver and gold and [things made of] bronze and iron, and many beautiful clothes. But you should share some of those things with other people of your tribe.”
| وَقَالَ لَهُمْ: «ارْجِعُوا إِلَى خِيَامِكُمْ بِغَنَائِمَ كَثِيرَةٍ وَبِمَوَاشٍ وَفِيرَةٍ وَبِفِضَّةٍ وَذَهَبٍ وَنُحَاسٍ وَحَدِيدٍ وَمَلابِسَ كَثِيرَةٍ جِدّاً، تَقَاسَمُوا غَنِيمَةَ أَعْدَائِكُمْ مَعَ إِخْوَتِكُمْ». | ٨ |
9 So the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh left the other Israelis at Shiloh in Canaan land, to return to their homes in the Gilead region. That was the area that belonged to them. It had been allotted to them by Moses as Yahweh had commanded.
| فَرَجَعَ أَبْنَاءُ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَأَبْنَاءُ جَادٍ وَنِصْفُ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى مِنْ عِنْدِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ شِيلُوهَ الْوَاقِعَةِ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ، إِلَى أَرْضِ جِلْعَادَ، أَرْضِ مِيرَاثِهِمِ الَّتِي امْتَلَكُوهَا حَسَبَ وَعْدِ الرَّبِّ عَلَى لِسَانِ مُوسَى. | ٩ |
10 The people from those three tribes arrived near the western side of the Jordan River, at a town called Geliloth. There they built a large altar. [Then they crossed the Jordan River to the Gilead region].
| وَعِنْدَمَا وَصَلَ رِجَالُ سِبْطَيْ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَجَادٍ وَنِصْفِ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى حَوْضَ الأُرْدُنِّ فِي أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ، شَيَّدُوا عَلَى ضَفَّةِ نَهْرِ الأُرْدُنِّ مَذْبَحاً رَائِعَ الْمَنْظَرِ. | ١٠ |
11 But the other Israelis who were still at Shiloh heard about the altar that those men had built.
| فَقِيلَ لِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ: «هَا قَدْ بَنَى أَبْنَاءُ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَجَادٍ وَأَبْنَاءُ نِصْفِ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى مَذْبَحاً فِي حَوْضِ نَهْرِ الأُرْدُنِّ مُقَابِلَ جَانِبِنَا مِنَ النَّهْرِ». | ١١ |
12 They became very angry with the men of those tribes, so they decided to fight them.
| فَاحْتَشَدَ كُلُّ رِجَالِ إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي شِيلُوهَ مُتَأَهِّبِينَ لِمُحَارَبَتِهِمْ. | ١٢ |
13 The Israelis sent Phinehas, who was the son of Eleazar the Supreme Priest, to [talk with] the people of those three tribes.
| وَأَرْسَلُوا فِينْحَاسَ بْنَ أَلِعَازَارَ الْكَاهِنَ إِلَى أَبْنَاءِ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَأَبْنَاءِ جَادٍ وَأَبْنَاءِ نِصْفِ مَنَسَّى فِي أَرْضِ جِلْعَادَ | ١٣ |
14 They also sent one leader from each of the ten tribes that were still at Shiloh. Each of them was a leader of his clan.
| عَلَى رَأْسِ وَفْدٍ مِنْ عَشْرَةِ زُعَمَاءَ يُمَثِّلُ كُلُّ زَعِيمٍ مِنْهُمْ سِبْطاً مِنْ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ١٤ |
15 Those leaders went to the Gilead region to talk to the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh. They said,
| وَعِنْدَمَا وَصَلُوا إِلَى جِلْعَادَ قَالُوا لَهُمْ: | ١٥ |
16 “All the other Israelis are asking, ‘Why have you rebelled against the God whom we Israelis [worship] by building an altar for yourselves?
| «هَذَا مَا تَقُولُهُ لَكُمْ كُلُّ جَمَاعَةِ الرَّبِّ: مَا هَذِهِ الْخِيَانَةُ الَّتِي ارْتَكَبْتُمُوهَا فِي حَقِّ إِلَهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ فَارْتَدَدْتُمْ عَنِ الرَّبِّ وَبَنَيْتُمْ لأَنْفُسِكُمْ مَذْبَحاً، مُتَمَرِّدِينَ بِذَلِكَ عَلَى الرَّبِّ؟ | ١٦ |
17 Have you forgotten what happened at Peor, [when some Israelis sinned by worshiping the god that the Moab people-group worship]? Many Israelis became very sick and died because of that sin, and we are still suffering because of their sin.
| أَلَمْ يَكْفِنَا إِثْمُ فَغُورَ الَّذِي لَمْ نَتَطَهَّرْ مِنْهُ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ مُنْذُ أَنْ تَفَشَّى الْوَبَأُ فِي جَمَاعَةِ الرَّبِّ، | ١٧ |
18 Are you now turning away from obeying Yahweh and refusing to do what he wants? If you do not stop rebelling against Yahweh today, he will be angry with all of us Israelis tomorrow.’
| حَتَّى تَرْتَدُّوا أَنْتُمُ الْيَوْمَ عَنِ الرَّبِّ؟ إِذَا تَمَرَّدْتُمُ الْيَوْمَ عَلَى الرَّبِّ فَإِنَّهُ يَسْخَطُ غَداً عَلَى كُلِّ جَمَاعَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ. | ١٨ |
19 “If [you think that Yahweh considers] that your land here is not suitable for worshiping him, come back to our land where Yahweh’s Sacred Tent is. We can share our land with you. But do not rebel against Yahweh and against us by building another altar for Yahweh our God.
| فَإِنْ كَانَتْ أَرْضُكُمْ نَجِسَةً فَتَعَالَوْا إِلَى أَرْضِ الرَّبِّ، الَّتِي نُصِبَ فِيهَا مَسْكَنُ الرَّبِّ، وَرِثُوا بَيْنَنَا، وَلَكِنْ لَا تَتَمَرَّدُوا عَلَى الرَّبِّ وَلا عَلَيْنَا بِتَشْيِيدِكُمْ لأَنْفُسِكُمْ مَذْبَحاً غَيْرَ مَذْبَحِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا. | ١٩ |
20 Do you remember what happened when Zerah’s son Achan refused to obey [Yahweh’s command to destroy everything in Jericho]? That one man disobeyed God’s command, but many [HYP] other Israelis were punished. Achan died because of his sin, but other Israelis also died.”
| أَلَمْ يَرْتَكِبْ عَخَانُ بْنُ زَارَحَ خِيَانَةً فَسَرَقَ مَا حَرَّمَهُ اللهُ، فَانْصَبَّ السَّخَطُ عَلَى كُلِّ جَمَاعَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ هُوَ وَحْدَهُ فَقَطْ الَّذِي هَلَكَ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ إِثْمِهِ؟» | ٢٠ |
21 The [leaders of the] tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh replied,
| فَأَجَابَهُمْ أَبْنَاءُ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَجَادٍ وَنِصْفِ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى: | ٢١ |
22 “Yahweh, the Almighty God, knows [why we did that], and we want you to know, too. If we have done something wrong [against Yahweh], you may kill us.
| «إِنَّ الرَّبَّ الْقَدِيرَ هُوَ إِلَهُ كُلِّ الآلِهَةِ؛ إِنَّ الرَّبَّ الْقَدِيرَ هُوَ إِلَهُ كُلِّ الْآلِهَةِ. هُوَ يَعْلَمُ، وَعَلَى شَعْبِ إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنْ يَعْلَمَ أَنَّنَا لَمْ نَبْنِ الْمَذْبَحَ تَمَرُّداً عَلَيْهِ أَوْ خِيَانَةً فِي حَقِّهِ وَإلَّا فَلْيُهْلِكْنَا هَذَا الْيَوْمَ، | ٢٢ |
23 If we have disobeyed one of Yahweh’s laws, we request that he should punish us. We did not build that new altar to completely burn animals as sacrifices to Yahweh, or to offer on it sacrifices of grain or sacrifices to maintain fellowship with God.
| وَلْيُعَاقِبْنَا الرَّبُّ نَفْسُهُ إِنْ كُنَّا قَدْ شَيَّدْنَا هَذَا الْمَذْبَحَ لِلارْتِدَادِ عَنْهُ أَوْ لإِصْعَادِ مُحْرَقَةٍ أَوْ تَقْدِمَةٍ أَوْ تَقْرِيبِ ذَبَائِحِ سَلامٍ عَلَيْهِ. | ٢٣ |
24 “This is the reason that we built that altar: We were afraid/worried that some day your descendants would say that our descendants are not true Israelis. We were afraid that then they would say, ‘You are not allowed to worship Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship].
| إِنَّمَا أَقَمْنَاهُ خَوْفاً مِنْ أَنْ يَقُولَ يَوْماً أَوْلادُكُمْ لأَوْلادِنَا: بِأَيِّ حَقٍّ تَعْبُدُونَ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَ إِسْرَائِيلَ؟ | ٢٤ |
25 Yahweh caused the Jordan River to be a boundary between us and you people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad. So you are not allowed to worship Yahweh.’ We were worried that your descendants would force our descendants to stop worshiping Yahweh.
| لَقَدْ جَعَلَ الرَّبُّ نَهْرَ الأُرْدُنِّ حَدّاً فَاصِلاً بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَنَا يَا أَبْنَاءَ سِبْطَيْ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَجَادٍ، فَلَيْسَ لَكُمْ نَصِيبٌ فِي الرَّبِّ، وَبِذَلِكَ يَثْنِي أَوْلادُكُمْ أَوْلادَنَا عَنْ تَقْوَى الرَّبِّ. | ٢٥ |
26 “That is the reason that we decided to build that [new] altar. But it is not an altar for completely burning sacrifices of animals and [burning other] sacrifices.
| وَذَلِكَ مَا جَعَلَنَا نَقُولُ: هَيَّا نَبْنِي مَذْبَحاً، لَا لِنُقَدِّمَ عَلَيْهِ مُحْرَقَةً أَوْ ذَبِيحَةً، | ٢٦ |
27 We built that new altar to prove/show to you and to us and to all of our descendants that we worship Yahweh by completely burning animal sacrifices and offerings of grain and offerings to maintain fellowship with Yahweh [only at the place Yahweh chooses]. We do not want your descendants to say to our descendants, ‘You do not belong to Yahweh.’
| إِنَّمَا لِيَكُونَ شَاهِداً بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَ أَجْيَالِنَا الْقَادِمَةِ بَعْدَنَا، بِأَنَّنَا نَعْبُدُ الرَّبَّ بِذَبَائِحِنَا وَمُحْرَقَاتِنَا وَتَقْدِمَاتِ سَلامِنَا، فَلا يَقُولُ أَبْنَاؤُكُمْ غَداً لأَبْنَائِنَا: لَيْسَ لَكُمْ نَصِيبٌ فِي الرَّبِّ. | ٢٧ |
28 “In the future, if your descendants say that, our descendants can say, ‘Look at the altar that our ancestors made! It is exactly like Yahweh’s altar [that our ancestors built], but we do not burn sacrifices on it. It only shows that we are Israelis!’
| وَقُلْنَا: إِذَا حَدَثَ وَقَالُوا ذَلِكَ لأَجْيَالِنَا غَداً، أَنَّهُمْ يُجِيبُونَهُمْ: انْظُرُوا شِبْهَ مَذْبَحِ الرَّبِّ الَّذِي شَيَّدَهُ آبَاؤُنَا، لَا لِلْمُحْرَقَةِ وَلا لِلذَّبِيحَةِ، بَلْ لِيَكُونَ شَاهِداً بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمْ. | ٢٨ |
29 We certainly do not want to rebel against Yahweh or stop doing what he desires, by building an altar for completely burning some sacrifices and burning grain offerings and making [other] sacrifices. [We know that] there is only one true altar for Yahweh our God, and it is in front of the Sacred Tent [at Shiloh].”
| فَحَاشَا لَنَا أَنْ نَتَمَرَّدَ عَلَى الرَّبِّ وَنَرْتَدَّ عَنْهُ بِبِنَاءِ مَذْبَحٍ لِلْمُحْرَقَةِ أَوِ التَّقْدِمَةِ أَوِ الذَّبِيحَةِ غَيْرَ مَذْبَحِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا الْقَائِمِ أَمَامَ مَسْكَنِهِ». | ٢٩ |
30 When Phinehas the priest and the other [ten] leaders heard what they said, they were pleased.
| فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ فِينْحَاسُ الْكَاهِنُ وَقَادَةُ جَمَاعَةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ الْمُرَافِقِينَ لَهُ مَا أَجَابَ بِهِ أَبْنَاءُ سِبْطَيْ رَأُوبَيْنَ وَجَادٍ وَأَبْنَاءُ نِصْفِ سِبْطِ مَنَسَّى، حَظِيَ ذَلِكَ بِرِضَاهُمْ. | ٣٠ |
31 So Phinehas said to them, “Now we know that Yahweh is with all of us Israelis, and that you were not rebelling against him [when you built that altar]. And we know that Yahweh will not punish us Israelis [because of your having done that].”
| فَقَالَ فِينْحَاسُ بْنُ أَلِعَازَارَ الْكَاهِنُ لَهُمْ: «الْيَوْمَ عَرَفْنَا أَنَّ الرَّبَّ بَيْنَنَا، لأَنَّكُمْ لَمْ تَرْتَكِبُوا هَذِهِ الْخِيَانَةَ بِحَقِّهِ، وَبِذَلِكَ أَنْقَذْتُمْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ عِقَابِ الرَّبِّ». | ٣١ |
32 Then Phinehas and the Israeli leaders left the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad in the Gilead region, and returned to Canaan. There they told the other Israelis what had happened.
| وَرَجَعَ فِينْحَاسُ بْنُ أَلِعَازَارَ الْكَاهِنُ وَالرُّؤَسَاءُ عَائِدِينَ مِنْ أَرْضِ جِلْعَادَ إِلَى أَرْضِ كَنْعَانَ حَيْثُ يُقِيمُ الإِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ وَأَخْبَرُوهُمْ بِجَوَابِهِمْ. | ٣٢ |
33 They were pleased, and they thanked God. And they did not talk any more about fighting against the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and destroying everything in their land.
| فَاغْتَبَطَ الإِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ وَبَارَكُوا الرَّبَّ وَتَخَلَّوْا عَنْ فِكْرَةِ مُحَارَبَةِ الرَّأُوبَيْنِيِّينَ وَالْجَادِيِّينَ وَتَخْرِيبِ أَرْضِهِمْ. | ٣٣ |
34 The people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad named their new altar ‘A reminder to us all that Yahweh is God’.
| وَسَمَّى بَنُو رَأُوبَيْنَ وَبَنُو جَادٍ الْمَذْبَحَ «الشَّاهِدَ» لأَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا إِنَّهُ شَاهِدٌ بَيْنَنَا بِأَنَّ الرَّبَّ هُوَ إِلَهُنَا. | ٣٤ |
