Iosue 4
1 Quibus transgressis, dixit Dominus ad Iosue:
And when the people had completely passed over Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,
2 Elige duodecim viros singulos per singulas tribus:
Take men from the people, one of each tribe,
3 et praecipe 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 charge them; and you shall take out of the midst of Jordan twelve fit stones, and having carried them across together with yourselves, place them in your camp, where you shall encamp for the night.
4 Vocavitque Iosue duodecim viros, quos elegerat de filiis Israel, singulos de singulis tribubus,
And Joshua having called twelve men of distinction amongst the children of Israel, one of each 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,
said to them, Advance before me in the presence of the Lord into the midst of Jordan, and each having taken up a stone from thence, let him carry it on his shoulders, according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel:
6 ut sit signum inter vos: et quando interrogaverint vos filii vestri cras, dicentes: Quid sibi volunt isti lapides?
that these may be to you continually for an appointed sign, that when your son asks you in future, saying, What are these stones to us?
7 respondebitis eis: Defecerunt aquae Iordanis ante arcam foederis Domini, cum transiret eum: idcirco positi sunt lapides isti in monimentum filiorum Israel usque in aeternum.
then you may explain to your son, saying, The river Jordan was dried up from before the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth, when it passed it: and these stones shall be for a memorial for you for the children of Israel for ever.
8 Fecerunt ergo filii Israel sicut praecepit 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 children of Israel did so, as the Lord commanded Joshua; and they took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, (as the Lord commanded Joshua, when the children of Israel had completely passed over, ) and carried these stones with them into the camp, and laid them down there.
9 Alios quoque duodecim lapides posuit Iosue in medio Iordanis alveo, ubi steterunt sacerdotes, qui portabant arcam foederis Domini: et sunt ibi usque in praesentem diem.
And Joshua set also other twelve stones in Jordan itself, in the place that was under the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and there they are to this day.
10 Sacerdotes autem, qui portabant arcam, stabant in Iordanis medio, donec omnia complerentur, quae Iosue, ut loqueretur ad populum, praeceperat Dominus, et dixerat ei Moyses. Festinavitque populus, et transiit.
And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood in Jordan, until Joshua [had] finished all that the Lord commanded him to report to the people; and the people hasted and passed over.
11 Cumque transissent omnes, transivit et arca Domini, sacerdotesque pergebant ante populum.
And it came to pass when all the people had passed over, that the ark of the covenant of the Lord passed over, and the stones before them.
12 Filii quoque Ruben, et Gad, et dimidia tribus Manasse, armati praecedebant fratres suos filios Israel, sicut eis praeceperat Moyses:
And the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses commanded them.
13 et quadraginta pugnatorum millia per turmas, et cuneos, incedebant per plana atque campestria urbis Iericho.
Forty thousand armed for battle went over before the Lord to war, to the city of Jericho.
14 In die illo magnificavit Dominus Iosue coram omni Israel, ut timerent eum, sicut timuerant Moysen, adhuc viveret.
In that day the Lord magnified Joshua before all the people of Israel; and they feared him, as [they did] Moses, as long as he lived.
15 Dixitque ad eum:
And the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,
16 Praecipe sacerdotibus, qui portant arcam foederis, ut ascendant de Iordane.
Charge the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of the testimony of the Lord, to go up out of Jordan.
17 Qui praecepit eis, dicens: Ascendite de Iordane.
And Joshua charged the priests, saying, Go up out of Jordan.
18 Cumque ascendissent portantes arcam foederis Domini, et siccam humum calcare coepissent, reversae sunt aquae in alveum suum, et fluebant sicut ante consueverant.
And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were gone up out of Jordan, and set their feet upon the land, [that] the water of Jordan returned impetuously to its place, and went as before over all its banks.
19 Populus autem ascendit de Iordane, decimo die mensis primi, et castrametati sunt in Galgalis contra Orientalem plagam urbis Iericho.
And the people went up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month; and the children of Israel encamped in Galgala in the region eastward from Jericho.
20 Duodecim quoque lapides, quos de Iordanis alveo sumpserant, posuit Iosue in Galgalis,
And Joshua set these twelve stones which he took out of Jordan, in Galgala,
21 et dixit ad filios Israel: Quando interrogaverint filii vestri cras patres suos, et dixerint eis: Quid sibi volunt lapides isti?
saying, When your sons ask you, saying, What are these stones?
22 docebitis eos, atque dicetis: Per arentem alveum transivit Israel Iordanem istum,
Tell your sons, that Israel went over this Jordan on dry land,
23 siccante Domino Deo nostro aquas eius in conspectu vestro, donec transiretis: sicut fecerat prius in mari rubro, quod siccavit donec transiremus:
when the Lord our God had dried up the water of Jordan from before them, until they had passed over; as the Lord our God did to the Red Sea, which the Lord our God dried up from before us, until we passed over.
24 ut discant omnes terrarum populi fortissimam Domini manum, ut et vos timeatis Dominum Deum vestrum omni tempore.
That all the nations of the earth might know, that the power of the Lord is mighty, and that you might worship the Lord our God in every work.
