Joshua 6
1 Meanwhile, the guards of Jericho shut the gates of the city tightly, because [they were afraid] of the Israeli [army]. No one was allowed to go into the city or go out of it.
Las puertas de Jericó se cerraron y se prohibieron por culpa de los israelitas. No se le permitía a nadie entrar o salir.
2 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Listen [to what I say]! I am going to enable your army [SYN] to capture/conquer [MTY] Jericho and its king and its soldiers.
Pero el Señor le dijo a Josué: “Te entrego la ciudad de Jericó, junto con su rey y su ejército de guerreros.
3 So your army must march around the city for six days, once each day.
Marcha alrededor de la ciudad con tus hombres armados una vez al día durante seis días.
4 Tell seven priests to march around with them. Each priest must carry a trumpet. Four other priests must carry the sacred chest, and they must walk behind the priests who are carrying the trumpets. On the seventh day, the army must march around the city seven times, and the priests must be blowing the trumpets while they march.
Siete sacerdotes irán delante del Arca, cada uno con un cuerno de carnero. El séptimo día, marchen siete veces alrededor de la ciudad, con los sacerdotes soplando sus cuernos de carnero.
5 [After they have all marched around the city seven times], the priests must blow their trumpets [once], very loudly. When the Israeli people/soldiers hear that, they must shout loudly. Then the wall of the city will collapse, and all the Israeli people/soldiers will go straight into the city.”
Cuando escuchen un largo golpe en los cuernos de los carneros, todos darán un grito muy fuerte. Las murallas de la ciudad se derrumbarán, y todo el mundo podrá entrar”.
6 So Joshua summoned the priests and said to them, “Tell four priests to carry the chest [that contains] the Ten Commandments that Yahweh [gave to us]. [Tell] seven [other] priests to carry trumpets and walk in front of them.”
Así que Josué, hijo de Nun, mandó a llamar a los sacerdotes, y les dijo: “Levanten el Arca del Pacto, y que siete sacerdotes lleven siete cuernos de carnero y vayan delante del Arca del Señor”.
7 And Joshua told the soldiers, “Start marching! March around the city, with several soldiers with weapons marching in front. Behind them will march the seven priests with trumpets, and behind them will march the four priests carrying Yahweh’s [sacred] chest.”
Luego le dijo al pueblo: “¡Muévanse! ¡Marchen alrededor de la ciudad con los hombres armados delante del Arca del Señor!”
8 After Joshua told that to the army, the seven priests, each carrying a sacred trumpet, started marching, blowing their trumpets. The four priests who were carrying Yahweh’s sacred chest followed them.
Cuando Josué terminó de hablarle al pueblo, los siete sacerdotes que llevaban los siete cuernos de carnero en presencia del Señor, comenzaron a soplar los cuernos, con el Arca tras ellos.
9 The group of soldiers carrying weapons marched in front of the priests who were blowing their trumpets, and the rest of the soldiers followed [the four men carrying] the chest. While [they were all marching], [the seven priests] were blowing their trumpets.
Algunos de los hombres armados marchaban delante de los sacerdotes haciendo sonar los cuernos, mientras que otros seguían el Arca, haciendo sonar los cuernos continuamente.
10 But [the rest of] the people [were silent, because] Joshua had commanded them, “Do not make a war cry. Do not yell or say anything until the day when I tell you to shout. On that day, you must shout [loudly]!”
Sin embargo, Josué les ordenó: “No griten, ni hablen. No digan nada hasta que yo les de la orden de gritar, ¡solo entonces griten!”
11 So the men carrying Yahweh’s sacred chest and all the others did what Joshua told them to do. They marched around the city once. Then they all returned to their camp and stayed there that night.
Así que el Arca del Señor fue llevada por todo alrededor de la ciudad, y dieron una vuelta. Luego regresaron al campamento y pasaron la noche allí.
12 The next morning, Joshua and the priests got up early, and the four priests carried Yahweh’s sacred chest [again].
Josué se levantó temprano en la mañana, y los sacerdotes recogieron el Arca del Señor.
13 The seven priests who were carrying trumpets went in front of [the men carrying] the chest. The seven priests were blowing their trumpets as they marched. The group of soldiers carrying weapons went in front of all the others, and the rest of the army followed all the others. All the time, the seven priests were blowing their trumpets.
Los siete sacerdotes con los siete cuernos de carnero iban delante del Arca del Señor, haciendo sonar los cuernos. Los hombres armados iban adelante ellos y detrás del Arca del Señor, haciendo sonar continuamente los cuernos.
14 So on that second day they again marched around the city once and then returned to their camp. They did the same thing for six days.
Así que el segundo día marcharon alrededor de la ciudad, dándole una vuelta, y volvieron al campamento. E hicieron esto por un total de seis días.
15 On the seventh day, they got up at dawn, and they all marched around the city the same way that they had done before, but this time they marched around the city seven times.
El séptimo día, se levantaron al amanecer y marcharon alrededor de la ciudad de la manera habitual, salvo que este día le dieron siete vueltas a la ciudad.
16 As they were marching around the seventh time, when the priests were about to blow the long/loud blast on their trumpets, Joshua commanded the people, “Shout, because Yahweh will enable you to capture the city!
La séptima vez, cuando los sacerdotes soplaron los cuernos, Josué le dijo al pueblo: “¡Griten, porque hoy el Señor nos ha dado la ciudad!
17 Yahweh has declared that you must destroy [IDM] the city and everything in it [to show that it belongs to him]. You must spare only Rahab the prostitute and the others who are in her house, because she hid the spies whom we sent there.
La ciudad y todo lo que hay en ella será apartado para el Señor y destruido. Sólo Rahab, la prostituta, y todos los que estén con ella en su casa se salvarán, porque ella escondió a los espías que enviamos.
18 And because Yahweh has declared that everything must be destroyed [IDM], you must not take [EUP] any of the things in the city. If you take anything, you will cause Yahweh to destroy our own camp and cause terrible things to happen to us.
Pero no se acerquen a ninguna de las cosas que se han apartado para el Señor, porque si se llevan algo, ustedes también serán destruidos, y además provocarán un desastre en el campamento de Israel.
19 But all the silver and gold and articles made from iron and bronze that you find, you must set apart for Yahweh. You must put those things in his treasury.”
Así que toda la plata y el oro, y todo lo que sea de bronce y hierro, son sagrados para el Señor y deben ser puestos en el tesoro del Señor”.
20 So they did what Joshua told them to do. When the priests blew a long blast on their trumpets, the people/army shouted loudly, and the wall of the city collapsed! Then the Israeli soldiers rushed in and captured the city.
Tan pronto como oyeron el sonido de las bocinas, el pueblo dio un fuerte grito, y las murallas de la ciudad se derrumbaron. Los hombres entraron de inmediato y capturaron la ciudad.
21 They killed [IDM] every living thing in the city—men and women, young people and old people, even cattle and sheep and donkeys.
Destruyeron todo lo que había en la ciudad: hombres y mujeres, jóvenes y ancianos, ganado, ovejas y burros, todos fueron asesinados con espada.
22 Then Joshua said to the two men (who had spied on/whom he had sent to learn all they could about) the land, “Go to the prostitute’s house. Bring her out, along with all her family, just as you promised to her.”
Josué lehabía dicho a los dos hombres que habían ido a explorar la tierra: “Vayan a la casa de la prostituta Rahab y sáquenla junto con toda su familia, tal como se lo prometieron”
23 So those two spies/men went into Rahab’s house and brought her out. They also brought out her father and mother and her brothers, and all the rest of her family. Joshua’s men spared Rahab the prostitute. They also did not kill all her relatives, because she had hidden and protected the spies/men whom Joshua had sent to Jericho. The two men brought them all out and put them in a place outside the camp of the Israelis. Rahab still lives among us Israeli people. Then the soldiers gathered the articles made from silver, gold, bronze, and iron that they found and they put them all into Yahweh’s treasury. But they burned everything else that was in the city.
Así que los espías fueron y sacaron a Rahab, a su padre y a su madre, y a todos los que estaban con ella. Sacaron a toda la familia y los llevaron a un lugar cerca del campamento israelita.
Los israelitas quemaron la ciudad y todo lo que había en ella, excepto la plata y el oro, y todo lo que estaba hecho de bronce y hierro, lo cual pusieron en el tesoro de la casa del Señor.
Josué salvó a Rahab, la prostituta, y a su familia porque escondió a los hombres que Josué había enviado a espiar a Jericó. Y ella vive entre los israelitas hasta el día de hoy.
26 At that time, Joshua warned the people, “Yahweh will curse/punish anyone who tries to rebuild this city, Jericho. When that person lays/builds its foundation, his oldest son will die. And when he finishes building the city wall and sets up its gates, his youngest son will die.”
En ese momento Josué declaró una maldición, diciendo: “Maldito sea ante el Señor todo aquel que intente reconstruir esta ciudad de Jericó. Él pone sus cimientos a costa de su hijo primogénito; él pone sus puertas a costa de su hijo menor”.
27 Because of what happened that day, it was clear that Yahweh was with/helped Joshua, and Joshua became famous throughout the land.
Y el Señor estaba con Josué, y su fama se extendió por toda la tierra.
