Josué 3
1 E levantou-se Josué de manhã, e partiram de Sitim, e vieram até o Jordão, ele e todos os filhos de Israel, e repousaram ali antes que passassem.
And Josue rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they departed from Setim, and came to the Jordan, he, and all the children of Israel, and they abode there for three days.
2 E passados três dias, os oficiais atravessaram por meio do acampamento,
After which, the heralds went through the midst of the camp,
3 E mandaram ao povo, dizendo: Quando virdes a arca do pacto do SENHOR vosso Deus, e os sacerdotes e levitas que a levam, vós partireis de vosso lugar, e marchareis atrás dela.
And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it, rise you up also, and follow them as they go before:
4 Porém entre vós e ela haja distância como da medida de dois mil côvados: e não vos aproximareis dela, a fim de que saibais o caminho por onde haveis de ir: porquanto vós não passastes antes de agora por este caminho.
And let there be between you and the ark the space of two thousand cubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way you must go: for you have not gone this way before: and take care you come not near the ark.
5 E Josué disse ao povo: Santificai-vos, porque o SENHOR fará amanhã entre vós maravilhas.
And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
6 E falou Josué aos sacerdotes, dizendo: Tomai a arca do pacto, e passai diante do povo. E eles tomaram a arca do pacto, e foram diante do povo.
And he said to the priests: Take up the ark of the covenant, and go before the people. And they obeyed his commands, and took it up and walked before them.
7 Então o SENHOR disse a Josué: Desde este dia começarei a fazer-te grande diante dos olhos de todo Israel, para que entendam que como fui com Moisés, assim serei contigo.
And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am with thee also.
8 Tu, pois, mandarás aos sacerdotes que levam a arca do pacto, dizendo: Quando houverdes entrado até a borda da água do Jordão, parareis no Jordão.
And do thou command the priests that carry the ark of the covenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered into part of the water of the Jordan, stand in it.
9 E Josué disse aos filhos de Israel: Achegai-vos aqui, e escutai as palavras do SENHOR vosso Deus.
And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither and hear the word of the Lord your God.
10 E acrescentou Josué: Em isto conhecereis que o Deus vivente está em meio de vós, e que ele lançará de diante de vós aos cananeus, e aos heteus, e aos heveus, e aos perizeus, e aos gergeseus, e aos amorreus, e aos jebuseus.
And again he said: By this you shall know that the Lord the living God is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy before your sight the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the Pherezite, the Gergesite also and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite.
11 Eis que, a arca do pacto do Dominador de toda a terra passa o Jordão diante de vós.
Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you into the Jordan.
12 Tomai, pois, agora doze homens das tribos de Israel, de cada tribo um.
Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.
13 E quando as plantas dos pés dos sacerdotes que levam a arca do SENHOR Dominador de toda a terra, forem assentadas sobre as águas do Jordão, as águas do Jordão se partirão: porque as águas que vem de acima se deterão em um amontoado.
And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and those that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap.
14 E aconteceu que, partindo o povo de suas tendas para passar o Jordão, e os sacerdotes diante do povo levando a arca do pacto,
So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant. went on before them.
15 Quando os que levavam a arca chegaram no Jordão, assim como os pés dos sacerdotes que levavam a arca foram molhados à beira da água, (porque o Jordão costuma transbordar sobre todas as suas margens todo aquele tempo da colheita, )
And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet were dipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time, had filled the banks of its channel, )
16 As águas que vinham de cima pararam, e amontoaram-se bem longe, na cidade de Adã, que está ao lado de Zaretã; e as que desciam ao mar das planícies, ao mar Salgado, esgotaram-se e foram totalmente interrompidas; e o povo passou em frente de Jericó.
The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.
17 Mas os sacerdotes que levavam a arca do pacto do SENHOR, ficaram firmes em seco, no meio do Jordão, e todo Israel passou em seco, até que todo o povo acabou de passar o Jordão.
And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over through the channel that was dried up.
