Josué 4
1 Sucedeu pois que, acabando todo o povo de passar o Jordão, falou o Senhor a Josué, dizendo:
After all the people of the Israeli nation had finished crossing the Jordan [River], Yahweh said to Joshua,
2 Tomai-vos do povo doze homens, de cada tribo um homem;
“When you choose the twelve men, one from each tribe, whom I mentioned previously, tell them to pick up [large] stones from the middle of the Jordan riverbed, where the priests are [still] standing.
3 E mandai-lhes, dizendo: tomai-vos daqui, do meio do Jordão, do lugar do assento dos pés dos sacerdotes, doze pedras; e levai-as convosco à outra banda e depositai-as no alojamento em que haveis de passar esta noite.
Tell them to carry the stones with you and put them down at the place where you will stay tonight.”
4 Chamou pois Josué os doze homens, que escolhera dos filhos de Israel: de cada tribo um homem;
So Joshua chose twelve men, one from each tribe. He called them together, and said to them,
5 E disse-lhes Josué: passai diante da arca do Senhor vosso Deus, ao meio do Jordão; e levantai vós cada um uma pedra sobre o seu ombro, segundo o número das tribos dos filhos de Israel;
“Go into the middle of the Jordan riverbed, to [where the priests are standing, holding] the chest that Yahweh, your God, gave you. Each of you must pick up a [large] stone, one for each tribe, [and carry it] on your shoulder [to our camp].
6 Para que isto seja por sinal entre vós; e quando vossos filhos no futuro perguntarem, dizendo: Que vos significam estas pedras?
[Then pile them up] to be a memorial for you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’,
7 Então lhes direis que as águas do Jordão se separaram diante da arca do concerto do Senhor; passando ela pelo Jordão, separaram-se as águas do Jordão: assim que estas pedras serão para sempre por memorial aos filhos de Israel.
tell them that the water in the Jordan River was blocked off when the priests were carrying the chest [that contained] the Ten Commandments that Yahweh [gave us]. When the chest was carried into the Jordan [River], the water was blocked off [so that we could cross the riverbed]. These stones will be a memorial for the descendants of us Israeli people forever.”
8 Fizeram pois os filhos de Israel assim como Josué tinha ordenado, e levantaram doze pedras do meio do Jordão, como o Senhor dissera a Josué, segundo o número das tribos dos filhos de Israel: e levaram-nas consigo ao alojamento, e as depositaram ali.
So those Israeli men did what Joshua told them to do. They went and picked up twelve [large] stones from the middle of the Jordan [riverbed], one stone for each of the tribes, just as Yahweh had told Joshua. They carried the stones to their camp and put them down.
9 Levantou Josué também doze pedras no meio do Jordão, do lugar do assento dos pés dos sacerdotes, que levavam a arca do concerto: e ali estão até ao dia de hoje.
Then Joshua set up twelve [other large] stones [in a pile], in the middle of the Jordan [riverbed], where the priests who carried the chest containing the Ten Commandments were standing. And those stones are still there.
10 Pararam pois os sacerdotes, que levavam a arca, no meio do Jordão, em pé, até que se cumpriu quanto o Senhor a Josué mandara dizer ao povo, conforme a tudo quanto Moisés tinha ordenado a Josué; e apressou-se o povo, e passou.
The priests who carried the chest remained standing in the middle of the Jordan [riverbed] until the people had finished doing everything that Yahweh had commanded Joshua to tell them to do. Those were the same instructions that Moses had given to Joshua. The Israeli people crossed [the riverbed] quickly.
11 E sucedeu que, assim que todo o povo acabou de passar, então passou a arca do Senhor, e os sacerdotes à vista do povo.
As soon as all of them had crossed, as the people watched, the priests carried the chest [the rest of the way across the river].
12 E passaram os filhos de Ruben, e os filhos de Gad, e a meia tribo de Manasseh, armados na frente dos filhos de Israel, como Moisés lhes tinha dito;
The soldiers of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and of half of the soldiers of the tribe of Manasseh, crossed over ahead of the rest of the Israeli people, carrying their weapons, as Moses had commanded.
13 Uns quarenta mil homens de guerra armados passaram diante do Senhor para batalha, às campinas de Jericó.
As Yahweh was watching, there were about 40,000 of those soldiers, carrying weapons ready for battle, who crossed the riverbed to the plains near Jericho, [ready] to fight.
14 Naquele dia o Senhor engrandeceu a Josué diante dos olhos de todo o Israel: e temeram-no, como haviam temido a Moisés, todos os dias da sua vida.
On that day, all the people of Israel saw that Yahweh had caused Joshua to be a great leader. And they honored Joshua for the rest of his life, just as they had honored Moses.
15 Falou pois o Senhor a Josué, dizendo:
Yahweh said to Joshua,
16 Dá ordem aos sacerdotes, que levam a arca do testemunho, que subam do Jordão.
“[Now] tell the priests who are carrying the chest containing the Ten Commandments to come up from the Jordan [riverbed].”
17 E deu Josué ordem aos sacerdotes, dizendo: Subi do Jordão.
So Joshua commanded the priests to do that.
18 E aconteceu que, como os sacerdotes, que levavam a arca do concerto do Senhor, subiram do meio do Jordão, e as plantas dos pés dos sacerdotes se puseram em seco, as águas do Jordão se tornaram ao seu lugar, e corriam, como antes, sobre todas as suas ribanceiras.
Then the priests, carrying the chest containing the Ten Commandments that Yahweh [had given to Moses], came up out of the riverbed. And as soon as they walked up out of the riverbed onto the riverbank, the water of the Jordan [River] flowed again, and flooded [over the river banks] as it had done before.
19 Subiu pois o povo do Jordão no dia dez do mês primeiro: e alojaram-se em Gilgal, da banda oriental de Jericó.
It was on the tenth day of the first month [of that year] that the people crossed over the Jordan [River] and camped at [a place called] Gilgal, on the east side of [the land near] Jericho [city].
20 E as doze pedras, que tinham tomado do Jordão, levantou Josué em Gilgal.
The men [who were carrying] the twelve [large] stones from the Jordan [riverbed brought them to] Joshua, [and he] set them up at Gilgal
21 E falou aos filhos de Israel, dizendo: Quando no futuro vossos filhos perguntarem a seus pais, dizendo: Que significam estas pedras?
Joshua said to the Israeli people, “In the future, when your children and grandchildren ask, ‘(What do these stones [mean/Why are these stones here)]?’,
22 Fareis saber a vossos filhos, dizendo: Israel passou em seco este Jordão.
tell them, ‘We Israeli people crossed the Jordan [River as though we were crossing] on dry ground.
23 Porque o Senhor vosso Deus fez secar as águas do Jordão diante de vós, até que passasseis: como o Senhor vosso Deus fez ao Mar Vermelho, que fez secar perante nós, até que passamos.
As we were watching, Yahweh, your God, dried up the river until we had all crossed over. Yahweh, the God whom we worship, did to the Jordan [River] just like he did to the Red Sea, when he caused it to become dry as [our parents] were watching, until they all crossed over it.
24 Para que todos os povos da terra conheçam a mão do Senhor, que é forte: para que temais ao Senhor vosso Deus todos os dias.
Yahweh did that in order that all the people-groups of the earth may know that he [MTY] is very powerful, and in order that you may always (be in awe of/revere) Yahweh, your God.’”
