Joshua 5
1 When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children 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, the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the 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 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill 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 This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came 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 came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been 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 the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice. The LORD swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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 Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on 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 When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
民眾全受了割損以後，便往在營中，直到痊愈。
9 The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called 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 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept 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 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the 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 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan 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 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
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 He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of the LORD’s army.” Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say 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 The prince of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did 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。
