Iosue 4
1 Quibus transgressis, dixit Dominus ad Iosue:
And it comes to pass, when all the nation has completed to pass over the Jordan, that YHWH speaks to Joshua, saying,
2 Elige duodecim viros singulos per singulas tribus:
“Take for yourselves twelve men out of the people, one man—one man out of a tribe;
3 et præcipe eis ut tollant de medio Iordanis alveo, ubi steterunt pedes sacerdotum, duodecim durissimos lapides, quos ponetis in loco castrorum, ubi fixeritis hac nocte tentoria.
and command them, saying, Take up for yourselves from this [place], from the midst of the Jordan, from the established standing-place of the feet of the priests, twelve stones, and you have removed them over with you, and placed them in the lodging-place in which you lodge tonight.”
4 Vocavitque Iosue duodecim viros, quos elegerat de filiis Israel, singulos de singulis tribubus,
And Joshua calls to the twelve men whom he prepared out of the sons of Israel, one man—one man out of a tribe;
5 et ait ad eos: Ite ante arcam Domini Dei vestri ad Iordanis medium, et portate inde singuli singulos lapides in humeris vestris, iuxta numerum filiorum Israel,
and Joshua says to them, “Pass over before the Ark of your God YHWH into the midst of the Jordan, and each of you lift up one stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel,
6 ut sit signum inter vos: et quando interrogaverint vos filii vestri cras, dicentes: Quid sibi volunt isti lapides?
so that this is a sign in your midst when your children ask hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones to you?
7 Respondebitis eis: Defecerunt aquæ Iordanis ante arcam fœderis Domini, cum transiret eum: idcirco positi sunt lapides isti in monimentum filiorum Israel usque in æternum.
That you have said to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off, at the presence of the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH; in its passing over into the Jordan the waters of the Jordan were cut off; and these stones have been for a memorial to the sons of Israel for all time.”
8 Fecerunt ergo filii Israel sicut præcepit eis Iosue, portantes de medio Iordanis alveo duodecim lapides, ut Dominus ei imperarat, iuxta numerum filiorum Israel, usque ad locum, in quo castrametati sunt, ibique posuerunt eos.
And the sons of Israel do so as Joshua commanded, and take up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as YHWH has spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and remove them over with them to the lodging-place, and place them there,
9 Alios quoque duodecim lapides posuit Iosue in medio Iordanis alveo, ubi steterunt sacerdotes, qui portabant arcam fœderis: et sunt ibi usque in præsentem diem.
even the twelve stones Joshua has raised up out of the midst of the Jordan, the place of the standing of the feet of the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant, and they are there to this day.
10 Sacerdotes autem, qui portabant arcam, stabant in Iordanis medio, donec omnia complerentur, quæ Iosue, ut loqueretur ad populum, præceperat Dominus, et dixerat ei Moyses. Festinavitque populus, et transiit.
And the priests carrying the Ark are standing in the midst of the Jordan until the completion of the whole thing which YHWH commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua, and the people hurry and pass over.
11 Cumque transissent omnes, transivit et arca Domini, sacerdotesque pergebant ante populum.
And it comes to pass, when all the people have completed to pass over, that the Ark of YHWH passes over, and the priests, in the presence of the people;
12 Filii quoque Ruben, et Gad, et dimidia tribus Manasse, armati præcedebant filios Israel, sicut eis præceperat Moyses:
and the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, pass over, by fifties, before the sons of Israel, as Moses had spoken to them;
13 et quadraginta pugnatorum millia per turmas, et cuneos, incedebant per plana atque campestria urbis Iericho.
about forty thousand, armed ones of the host, passed over before YHWH for battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14 In die illo magnificavit Dominus Iosue coram omni Israel, ut timerent eum, sicut timuerant Moysen, dum adviveret.
On that day YHWH has made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel, and they fear him, as they feared Moses, all [the] days of his life.
15 Dixitque ad eum:
And YHWH speaks to Joshua, saying,
16 Præcipe sacerdotibus, qui portant arcam fœderis, ut ascendant de Iordane.
“Command the priests carrying the Ark of the Testimony, and they come up out of the Jordan.”
17 Qui præcepit eis, dicens: Ascendite de Iordane.
And Joshua commands the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan.”
18 Cumque ascendissent portantes arcam fœderis Domini, et siccam humum calcare cœpissent, reversæ sunt aquæ in alveum suum, et fluebant sicut ante consueverant.
And it comes to pass, in the coming up of the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH out of the midst of the Jordan—the soles of the feet of the priests have been drawn up into the dry ground—and the waters of the Jordan return to their place, and go over all its banks as before.
19 Populus autem ascendit de Iordane, decimo die mensis primi, et castrametati sunt in Galgalis contra Orientalem plagam urbis Iericho.
And the people have come up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and encamp in Gilgal, in the extremity east of Jericho;
20 Duodecim quoque lapides, quos de Iordanis alveo sumpserant, posuit Iosue in Galgalis,
and these twelve stones, which they have taken out of the Jordan, Joshua has raised up in Gilgal.
21 et dixit ad filios Israel: Quando interrogaverint filii vestri cras patres suos, et dixerint eis: Quid sibi volunt lapides isti?
And he speaks to the sons of Israel, saying, “When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones?
22 Docebitis eos, atque dicetis: Per arentem alveum transivit Israel Iordanem istum,
Then you have caused your sons to know, saying, Israel passed over this Jordan on dry land;
23 siccante Domino Deo vestro aquas eius in conspectu vestro, donec transiretis: sicut fecerat prius in Mari Rubro, quod siccavit donec transiremus:
because your God YHWH dried up the waters of the Jordan at your presence, until your passing over, as your God YHWH did to the Red Sea which He dried up at our presence until our passing over;
24 ut discant omnes terrarum populi fortissimam Domini manum, ut et vos timeatis Dominum Deum vestrum omni tempore.
so that all the people of the land know the hand of YHWH—that it [is] strong, so that you have feared your God YHWH [for] all the days.”
