Jozue 4
1 Tango ekolo mobimba esilisaki kokatisa Yordani, Yawe alobaki na Jozue:
And when all the people were wholy gone ouer Iorden, (after the Lord had spoken vnto Ioshua, saying,
2 « Pona mibali zomi na mibale kati na bato, mobali moko mpo na libota moko.
Take you twelue me out of the people, out of euery tribe a man,
3 Pesa bango mitindo oyo: ‹ Bozwa kati na mayi ya Yordani, na esika oyo Banganga-Nzambe bapikamaki, mabanga zomi na mibale, bomema yango elongo na bino mpe botia yango na esika oyo bokolekisa butu ya lelo. › »
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 Boye, Jozue abengaki mibali zomi na mibale oyo aponaki kati na bana ya Isalaele, mobali moko mpo na libota moko.
Then Ioshua called the twelue men, whome he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of euery tribe a man,
5 Jozue alobaki na bango: « Boleka liboso ya Sanduku ya Yawe, Nzambe na bino, kino na kati-kati ya Yordani. Moko na moko kati na bino amema libanga na lipeka na ye kolanda motango ya mabota ya Isalaele
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 mpo ete ezala lokola elembo kati na bino. Sima na tango, soki bana na bino batuni bino: ‹ Mabanga oyo elakisi nini? ›
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 Bokoyebisa bango ete mayi ya Yordani ekatanaki na biteni mibale liboso ya Sanduku ya Boyokani ya Yawe. Tango ekatisaki Yordani, mayi na yango mpe ekatanaki. Mabanga oyo ezali lokola ekaniseli ya seko na seko mpo na bana ya Isalaele. »
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 Boye, bana ya Isalaele basalaki ndenge Jozue atindaki bango. Bazwaki kati na Yordani, mabanga zomi na mibale kolanda motango ya mabota ya Isalaele, ndenge Yawe alobaki na Jozue. Bamemaki yango kino na molako na bango, epai wapi batiaki yango.
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 Jozue atelemisaki mabanga zomi na mibale mosusu na kati-kati ya Yordani, na esika oyo Banganga-Nzambe oyo bamemaki Sanduku ya Boyokani bapikamaki, mpe etikala wana kino na mokolo ya lelo.
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 Nzokande, Banganga-Nzambe oyo bamemaki Sanduku bawumelaki na kati-kati ya Yordani kino tango bato bakokisaki makambo nyonso oyo Yawe atindaki Jozue, ndenge kaka Moyize ayebisaki ye. Ezalaki na lombangu nde bato bakatisaki Yordani.
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 Tango bango nyonso basilisaki kokatisa, Sanduku ya Yawe elongo na Banganga-Nzambe balekaki lisusu liboso ya bato.
When all the people were cleane passed ouer, the Arke of the Lord went ouer also, and the Priests before the people.
12 Bato ya libota ya Ribeni, ya Gadi, mpe ya ndambo ya libota ya Manase bakatisaki, balataki bibundeli mpe batambolaki liboso ya bana ya Isalaele, ndenge Moyize atindaki bango.
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 Bazalaki bato pene nkoto tuku minei, bato ya bitumba, oyo bakamataki bibundeli mpo na kobunda; balekaki liboso ya Yawe na nzela ya bitando ya Jeriko mpo na kobunda.
Euen fourty thousand prepared for warre, went before the Lord vnto battel, into ye plaine of Iericho.
14 Na mokolo wana, Yawe atombolaki Jozue na miso ya bana nyonso ya Isalaele; mpe bapesaki ye lokumu mikolo nyonso ya bomoi na ye, ndenge kaka bapesaki Moyize lokumu.
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 Yawe alobaki na Jozue:
And the Lord spake vnto Ioshua, saying,
16 « Pesa Banganga-Nzambe oyo bamemi Sanduku ya Litatoli mitindo ete babima wuta na kati-kati ya ebale Yordani. »
Commande the Priests that beare ye Arke of the testimonie, to come vp out of Iorden.
17 Jozue apesaki mitindo epai ya Banganga-Nzambe: « Bobima wuta na kati-kati ya ebale Yordani. »
Ioshua therefore commanded the Priests, saying, Come ye vp out of Iorden.
18 Boye Banganga-Nzambe oyo bamemaki Sanduku ya Boyokani ya Yawe babimaki wuta na ebale. Tango kaka batiaki matambe na bango na mokili, mayi ya Yordani ezongaki na esika na yango, etondaki makasi mpe ekomaki kotiola ndenge ezalaki momesano na yango.
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 Na mokolo ya zomi ya sanza ya liboso, bato bakendeki wuta na Yordani mpe batongaki molako na bango na Giligali, na mondelo ya este ya Jeriko.
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 Jozue atelemisaki, na Giligali, mabanga zomi na mibale oyo babimisaki na Yordani.
Also the twelue stones, which they tooke out of Iorden, did Ioshua pitch in Gilgal.
21 Alobaki na bana ya Isalaele: « Tango bakitani na bino bakotuna batata na bango: ‹ Mabanga oyo elakisi nini? ›
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 Boyebisa bango: ‹ Bato ya Isalaele bakatisaki Yordani na mabele ya kokawuka. ›
Then ye shall shew your children, and say, Israel came ouer this Iorden on dry land:
23 Pamba te Yawe, Nzambe na bino, akawusaki liboso mayi ya Yordani kino tango bosilisaki kokatisa. Yawe asalaki na Yordani makambo oyo asalaki na ebale monene ya Barozo tango akawusaki yango liboso na biso, kino tango tosilisaki kokatisa yango.
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 Asalaki bongo mpo ete bato nyonso ya mokili bayeba ete loboko ya Yawe ezalaka na nguya, mpe mpo ete bobangaka Yawe, Nzambe na bino, tango nyonso. »
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.
