Iosue 3
1 Igitur Iosue de nocte consurgens movit castra: egredientesque de Setim, venerunt ad Iordanem ipse, et omnes filii Israel, et morati sunt ibi per tres dies.
Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.
2 Quibus evolutis, transierunt praecones per castrorum medium,
And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,
3 et clamare coeperunt: Quando videritis arcam foederis Domini Dei vestri, et sacerdotes stirpis Leviticae portantes eam, vos quoque consurgite, et sequimini praecedentes:
Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;
4 sitque inter vos et arcam spatium cubitorum duum millium: ut procul videre possitis, et nosse per quam viam ingrediamini: quia prius non ambulastis per eam: et cavete ne appropinquetis ad arcam.
But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.
5 Dixitque Iosue ad populum: Sanctificamini: cras enim faciet Dominus inter vos mirabilia.
And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.
6 Et ait ad sacerdotes: Tollite arcam foederis, et praecedite populum. Qui iussa complentes, tulerunt, et ambulaverunt ante eos.
Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the agreement and go over in front of the people. So they took up the ark of the agreement and went in front of the people.
7 Dixitque Dominus ad Iosue: Hodie incipiam exaltare te coram omni Israel: ut sciant quod sicut cum Moyse fui, ita et tecum sim.
And the Lord said to Joshua, From now on I will give you glory in the eyes of all Israel, so that they may see that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
8 Tu autem praecipe sacerdotibus, qui portant arcam foederis, et dic eis: Cum ingressi fueritis partem aquae Iordanis, state in ea.
And you are to give orders to the priests who take up the ark of the agreement, and say, When you come to the edge of the waters of Jordan, go no further.
9 Dixitque Iosue ad filios Israel: Accedite huc, et audite verbum Domini Dei vestri.
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.
10 Et rursum: In hoc, inquit, scietis quod Dominus Deus vivens in medio vestri est, et disperdet in conspectu vestro Chananaeum et Hethaeum, Hevaeum et Pherezaeum, Gergesaeum quoque et Iebusaeum, et Amorrhaeum.
And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.
11 Ecce, arca foederis Domini omnis terrae antecedet vos per Iordanem.
See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan.
12 Parate duodecim viros de tribubus Israel, singulos per singulas tribus.
So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.
13 Et cum posuerint vestigia pedum suorum sacerdotes qui portant arcam Domini Dei universae terrae in aquis Iordanis, aquae, quae inferiores sunt, decurrent atque deficient: quae autem desuper veniunt, in una mole consistent.
And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass.
14 Igitur egressus est populus de tabernaculis suis, ut transiret Iordanem: et sacerdotes, qui portabant arcam foederis, pergebant ante eum.
So when the people went out from their tents to go over Jordan, the priests who took up the ark of the agreement were in front of the people;
15 Ingressisque eis Iordanem, et pedibus eorum in parte aquae tinctis (Iordanis autem ripas alvei sui tempore messis impleverat)
And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water (for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting),
16 steterunt aquae descendentes in loco uno, et ad instar montis intumescentes apparebant procul ab urbe, quae vocatur Adom usque ad locum Sarthan: quae autem inferiores erant, in Mare solitudinis (quod nunc vocatur mortuum) descenderunt, usquequo omnino deficerent.
Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.
17 Populus autem incedebat contra Iordanem: et sacerdotes qui portabant arcam foederis Domini, stabant super siccam humum in medio Iordanis accincti, omnisque populus per arentem alveum transibat.
And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.
