Jozye 4

1 Alò, lè tout nasyon an te fin travèse Jourdain an, SENYÈ a te pale avèk Josué. Li te di:

And when all the people were wholy gone ouer Iorden, (after the Lord had spoken vnto Ioshua, saying,

2 “Pran pou nou menm douz mesye pami pèp la, yon mesye ki soti nan chak tribi.

Take you twelue me out of the people, out of euery tribe a man,

3 Kòmande yo e di: ‘Ranmase pou kont nou douz wòch soti isit la nan mitan Jourdain an, soti nan plas kote pye prèt la ap kanpe fèm nan. Pote yo janbe avèk nou, e poze yo nan plas lojman kote nou va dòmi aswè a.’”

And command you them, saying, Take you hence out of the middes of Iorden, out of the place where the Priestes stoode in a readinesse, twelue stones, which ye shall take away with you, and leaue them in the lodging where you shall lodge this night)

4 Konsa, Josué te rele douz mesye ke li te chwazi soti nan fis Israël yo, yon mesye nan chak tribi,

Then Ioshua called the twelue men, whome he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of euery tribe a man,

5 epi Josué te di yo: “Travèse ankò vè lach SENYÈ a, Bondye nou an, pou rive nan mitan Jourdain an e nou chak pran yon wòch sou zepòl li, selon nonb a tribi a fis Israël yo.

And Ioshua said vnto them, Go ouer before the Arke of the Lord your God, euen through the middes of Iorden, and take vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shoulder according vnto the nomber of the tribes of the children of Israel,

6 Ke sa sèvi kòm yon sign pami nou, jis pou lè pitit nou yo mande pita e di: ‘Kisa wòch sa yo vle di a nou menm’?

That this may bee a signe among you, that whe your children shall aske their fathers in time to come, saying, What meane you by these stones?

7 Alò nou va di yo: ‘Akoz dlo Jourdain yo te koupe devan lach akò SENYÈ a. Lè lach la te travèse Jourdain an, dlo Jourdain yo te koupe. Pou sa, wòch sa yo va sèvi kòm yon souvni pou fis Israël yo pou tout tan.’”

Then ye may answere them, That the waters of Iorden were cut off before the Arke of the couenant of the Lord: for when it passed through Iorden, the waters of Iorden were cut off: therefore these stones are a memoriall vnto the children of Israel for euer.

8 Konsa, fis Israël yo te fè jan Josué te kòmande yo a. Yo te leve pran douz wòch yo nan mitan Jourdain an, jan SENYÈ a te pale a Josué a, selon nonb a tribi a fis Israël yo, epi yo te pote yo janbe avèk yo pou rive nan plas lojman an e te poze yo la.

Then ye children of Israel did euen so as Ioshua had commanded, and tooke vp twelue stones out of the mids of Iorden as ye Lord had said vnto Ioshua, according to the nomber of the tribes of the children of Israel, and caried them away with them vnto the lodging, and layd them down there.

9 Epi Josué te poze douz wòch yo nan mitan Jourdain an nan plas kote pye a prèt yo ki te pote lach akò a te kanpe. Yo la, jis jodi a.

And Ioshua set vp twelue stones in the middes of Iorden, in the place where the feete of the Priests, which bare the Arke of the couenant stood, and there haue they continued vnto this day.

10 Paske prèt yo ki te pote lach la te kanpe nan mitan Jourdain an jiskaske tout bagay ke SENYÈ a te kòmande Josué pou pale a pèp la te fini, selon tout sa ke Moïse te kòmande Josué yo. Konsa, pèp la te fè vit travèse.

So the Priests, which bare ye Arke, stoode in the middes of Iorden, vntill euery thing was finished that ye Lord had comanded Ioshua to say vnto the people, according to all that Moses charged Ioshua: then the people hasted and went ouer.

11 Lè tout pèp la te fin travèse, lach SENYÈ a avèk prèt yo te travèse nan prezans a pèp la.

When all the people were cleane passed ouer, the Arke of the Lord went ouer also, and the Priests before the people.

12 Fis Ruben yo ak fis a Gad yo ak mwatye tribi Manassé a te janbe abiye e prepare pou fè lagè devan fis Israël yo, jis jan ke Moïse te pale yo a.

And the sonnes of Reuben, and the sonnes of Gad, and halfe the tribe of Manasseh went ouer before the children of Israel armed, as Moses had charged them.

13 Anviwon karant mil mesye, prèt pou batay, te travèse devan SENYÈ a vè plèn dezè a Jéricho a.

Euen fourty thousand prepared for warre, went before the Lord vnto battel, into ye plaine of Iericho.

14 Nan jou sa a, SENYÈ a te egzalte Josué nan zye a tout Israël; jis pou yo genyen l respè avèk lakrent, jis jan ke yo te gen respè avèk lakrent pou Moïse pandan tout jou ke li te viv yo.

That day the Lord magnified Ioshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him, as they feared Moses all dayes of his life.

15 Alò SENYÈ a te di a Josué:

And the Lord spake vnto Ioshua, saying,

16 “Kòmande prèt ki pote lach akò a pou monte kite Jourdain an.”

Commande the Priests that beare ye Arke of the testimonie, to come vp out of Iorden.

17 Konsa, Josué te kòmande prèt yo. Li te di: “Monte soti nan Jourdain an.”

Ioshua therefore commanded the Priests, saying, Come ye vp out of Iorden.

18 Li te vin rive ke lè prèt ki te pote lach SENYÈ yo te kite mitan Jourdain an, e pla pye yo te monte sou tè sèk, dlo Jourdain an te retounen nan plas li e te depase rivaj yo kòm avan an.

And when the Priests that bare the Arke of the couenant of ye Lord were come vp out of the middes of Iorden, and assoone as the soles of the Priests feete were set on the dry land, the waters of Iorde returned vnto their place, and flowed ouer all the bankes thereof, as they did before.

19 Konsa, pèp la te monte kite Jourdain an nan dizyèm jou a premye mwa a, epi yo te fè kan nan Guilgal akote lès Jéricho.

So the people came vp out of Iorden the tenth day of the first moneth, and pitched in Gilgal, in the Eastside of Iericho.

20 Douz wòch sa yo ke yo te pran nan Jourdain an, Josué te monte nan Guilgal.

Also the twelue stones, which they tooke out of Iorden, did Ioshua pitch in Gilgal.

21 Li te di a fis Israël yo: “Lè pitit nou yo mande papa yo nan tan k ap vini yo, e di: ‘Kisa wòch sa yo ye?’

And he spake vnto ye childre of Israel, saying, When your children shall aske their fathers in time to come, and say, What meane these stones?

22 Alò, nou va eksplike pitit nou yo pou di: ‘Israël te travèse Jourdain sila a sou tè sèk’.

Then ye shall shew your children, and say, Israel came ouer this Iorden on dry land:

23 Paske SENYÈ a, Bondye nou an, te seche dlo Jourdain yo devan nou jiskaske nou te fin travèse, jis jan ke Li te fè nan Lamè Wouj la, ke Li te seche devan nou jiskaske nou te fin travèse a,

For the Lord your God dryed vp ye waters of Iorden before you, vntill ye were gone ouer, as the Lord your God did the red Sea, which hee dryed vp before vs, till we were gone ouer,

24 pou tout pèp sou latè yo kapab konnen ke men SENYÈ a pwisan, pou nou kapab gen lakrent SENYÈ a pou tout tan.”

That all the people of the worlde may know that the hand of the Lord is mightie, that ye might feare the Lord your God continually.