Josué 24
1 Josué congregó a todas las tribus de Israel en Siquem. Convocó a los ancianos de Israel, sus jefes, sus jueces y sus oficiales, y comparecieron ante ʼElohim.
[Many years later], Joshua summoned representatives of all the tribes of Israel. He gathered together the elders, the leaders, the judges, and the other officials at Shechem [city]. He told them to listen to what God wanted to tell them.
2 Josué dijo a todo el pueblo: Yavé ʼElohim de Israel dice: Al otro lado del Río habitaron antiguamente sus antepasados: Taré, padre de Abraham y de Nacor. Ellos servían a otros ʼelohim.
Joshua said to all of them, “This is what Yahweh, the God we Israeli people worship, is saying: ‘Long ago, your ancestors, including Abraham’s father Terah and Abraham’s younger brother Nahor, lived on the east side of the Euphrates River.
3 Pero Yo tomé a su antepasado Abraham de la otra parte del Río, hice que anduviera por toda la tierra de Canaán, multipliqué su descendencia y le di a Isaac.
But I took your ancestor Abraham from that land east of the Euphrates River, and I led him as he lived in various places in this land of Canaan, and I enabled him to have many descendants. First, I enabled him to have a son, Isaac.
4 A Isaac le di a Jacob y a Esaú. A Esaú le di la región montañosa de Seír para que la poseyera, pero Jacob y sus hijos bajaron a Egipto.
When Isaac grew up, I enabled him to have twin sons, Jacob and Esau. I enabled Esau to live in the hilly area in Seir region, but many years later Jacob and his sons and their families went down to live in Egypt.
5 Luego envié a Moisés y a Aarón y herí con plagas a Egipto, según lo que hice en medio de él. Después los saqué de allí.
“[Many years later], I sent Moses and his older brother Aaron to help your people, and I caused [the people of] Egypt to suffer very much because of what I did there. Then I enabled your ancestors to leave Egypt.
6 Saqué a sus antepasados de Egipto, y llegaron al mar. Los egipcios persiguieron a sus antepasados con carruajes y con jinetes hasta el mar Rojo.
When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, they came to the Red Sea. The Egyptian army pursued them, some riding in chariots and others on horses, and they also arrived at the Red Sea.
7 Entonces clamaron a Yavé y Él puso oscuridad entre ustedes y los egipcios. Echó el mar sobre ellos y los cubrió. Los ojos de ustedes vieron lo que hice en Egipto. Por muchos días estuvieron en el desierto.
Then [your ancestors] pleaded with me to help them. So he caused (darkness/a very dark cloud) to come between your ancestors and the Egyptian army, so that the Egyptian army could not see your ancestors. I separated the water in the Red Sea so that your ancestors could cross it, but when the Egyptian army tried to cross in the same way to pursue them, I caused the water to come back and cover them, and the Egyptian soldiers all drowned, as your ancestors watched and were amazed [IDM]. But after that, you lived in the desert for many years.
8 Después los introduje en la tierra de los amorreos, que habitaban en la otra parte del Jordán. Lucharon contra ustedes, pero los entregué en sus manos. Poseyeron su tierra, y los destruí de delante de ustedes.
“Then I brought your [ancestors] to the area where the groups who were descendants of Amor lived, east of the Jordan River. They fought against you, but I enabled you to defeat them [IDM]. I [enabled you to] destroy them so that you could live in their land [IDM].
9 Luego se levantó Balac, hijo de Zipor, rey de los moabitas, y peleó contra Israel, y envió a llamar a Balaam, hijo de Beor, para que los maldijera.
Then, Zippor’s son Balak, the King of Moab, (decided that his army would fight against/opposed) the Israelis. He summoned Beor’s son Balaam and asked him to curse you.
10 Pero no quise escuchar a Balaam, y él tuvo que bendecirlos. Los libré de su mano.
But I would not do what Balaam asked, so he (blessed/said that I would do great things for) you four times, and I did not enable the army of Moab to defeat you [IDM].
11 Luego cruzaron el Jordán y llegaron a Jericó. Los hombres de Jericó pelearon contra ustedes. También el amorreo, el ferezeo, el cananeo, el heteo, el gergeso, el heveo y el jebuseo, pero Yo los entregué en mano de ustedes.
“Then you all crossed the Jordan River and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho prepared to fight against you, [and the armies of] the descendants of Amor, Periz, Canaan, Heth, Girgash, Hiv, and Jebus [all prepared to do the same thing] but I enabled you to defeat [IDM] them all.
12 Envié también delante de ustedes el avispón que echó de delante de ustedes a los dos reyes de los amorreos, pero no con tu espada, ni con tu arco.
I am the one who caused them to panic as you advanced and enabled you to defeat them, as I had enabled you to do earlier to the two kings of the groups who were descendants of Amor. You did not defeat them by using your own bows and arrows and swords; [it was I who defeated them].
13 Les di una tierra por la cual no se fatigaron, ciudades que no edificaron en las cuales viven, y comen de viñedos y olivares que no plantaron.
So I gave you a land that you had not tilled/planted, and I gave you cities that you did not build. [Now] you live in those [cities] and you eat the grapes from the grapevines that you did not plant, and you eat olives from trees that you did not plant.’”
14 Ahora, pues, teman a Yavé y sírvanle con integridad y en verdad. Aparten los ʼelohim a los cuales sus antepasados sirvieron en la otra parte del río y en Egipto, y sirvan a Yavé.
[Then Joshua said to the people], “[Because of all that] Yahweh [has done for you], revere him, and serve/worship him very faithfully. Throw away the idols that your ancestors worshiped on the east/other side of the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve only Yahweh.
15 Si mal les parece servir a Yavé, escojan hoy a quién sirvan: si a los ʼelohim a quienes sus antepasados sirvieron cuando estuvieron al otro lado del Río, o a los ʼelohim del amorreo en cuya tierra viven, pero yo y mi casa serviremos a Yavé.
But if you do not want to serve/worship Yahweh, you should decide today what [gods] you will serve/worship. You should decide whether you will serve/worship the gods that your ancestors who lived on the other/east side of the Euphrates River served, or whether you will serve/worship the gods that the descendants of Amor, who previously lived in the land where you are now living, [serve/worship]. But as for me and my family [MTY], we will serve/worship Yahweh!”
16 Entonces el pueblo respondió: ¡Lejos esté de nosotros abandonar a Yavé para servir a otros ʼelohim!
The Israeli people answered, “We will never quit [serving/worshiping] Yahweh! We would never [think of] [IDM] serving/worshiping other gods!
17 Porque Yavé nuestro ʼElohim es Quien nos sacó a nosotros y a nuestros antepasados de la tierra de Egipto, de casa de esclavitud, Quien hizo estas grandes señales ante nuestros ojos y nos guardó por todo el camino en el cual anduvimos, y entre todos los pueblos por los cuales pasamos.
It was our God, Yahweh, who brought our parents and grandparents up out of Egypt. [He rescued them] from that land where they were slaves. As he rescued them, they saw him perform great miracles. He protected them all the time when they were traveling. He protected them from all the people-groups through whose territory they traveled.
18 Por cuanto Yavé echó de delante de nosotros a todos los pueblos y a los amorreos que habitaban en esta tierra, nosotros también serviremos a Yavé, porque Él es nuestro ʼElohim.
As our forefathers advanced, Yahweh expelled the descendants of Amor and the other people-groups who lived in this land. Yahweh is our God, so [we are saying that] we also will serve/worship him.”
19 Pero Josué objetó al pueblo: No podrán servir a Yavé, porque es un ʼElohim santo, un ʼElohim celoso. No cargará sus transgresiones y sus pecados.
Joshua replied to the people, “[I think that] you are not able to serve/worship Yahweh, because he is a holy God. He will not forgive your sinning and rebelling [against him]. He demands that you serve/worship only him [IDM].
20 Cuando abandonen a Yavé para servir a ʼelohim extraños, Él se volverá y les hará el mal. Los consumirá, después del bien que les hizo.
He has been good to you [in the past], but if you turn away from him and serve/worship foreign/other gods, he will turn [against you] and he will cause you to experience disasters. He will punish [IDM] you severely!”
21 Pero el pueblo dijo a Josué: No, en verdad serviremos a Yavé.
But the people replied to Joshua, “No, [we will not turn away from worshiping/serving Yahweh] We will serve/worship Yahweh!”
22 Entonces Josué respondió al pueblo: Ustedes son testigos contra ustedes mismos en cuanto a que se eligieron a Yavé para servirle. Ellos respondieron: ¡Somos testigos!
Then Joshua said, “You yourselves are saying that you have decided to serve/worship Yahweh.” They replied, “Yes, we are saying that.”
23 ¡Aparten, pues, los ʼelohim extraños que hay entre ustedes, e inclinen su corazón hacia Yavé ʼElohim de Israel!
Then Joshua said, “Since [you have decided] that, you must throw away all the other gods/idols that you have among you. You must also promise that you will wholeheartedly give yourselves to Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [serve/worship].”
24 Y el pueblo respondió a Josué: ¡A Yavé nuestro ʼElohim serviremos y obedeceremos!
The people replied, “We will serve/worship Yahweh, our God, and obey him.”
25 Así Josué pactó alianza con el pueblo en aquel día y le estableció Estatutos y Decretos en Siquem.
That day, Joshua established an agreement between the people and Yahweh. He wrote for them all the laws that they were required to obey.
26 Luego Josué escribió estas palabras en el Rollo de la Ley de ʼElohim. Y tomó una gran piedra y la erigió allí, debajo del roble que estaba junto al Santuario de Yavé.
He wrote all those laws on a scroll. He called it ‘The laws of God’. Then he [told some men to] set up a large stone there at Shechem, under the [large] oak tree near the place where [they worshiped] Yahweh.
27 Josué dijo a todo el pueblo: Ciertamente esta piedra será testigo contra nosotros, pues ella oyó todas las palabras que Yavé nos dijo. Será, pues, testigo contra ustedes para que no renieguen de su ʼElohim.
He said to all the people, “Look! [It is as though] this stone has heard everything that Yahweh said to you [and that you promised Yahweh]. It will serve as a witness against you if you rebel against your God!”
28 Luego Josué despidió al pueblo y mandó a cada uno a su heredad.
Then Joshua sent the people away, and all of them returned to their own areas/homes.
29 Después de estas cosas, sucedió que murió Josué, hijo de Nun, esclavo de Yavé, a la edad de 110 años.
Some time after that, Nun’s son Joshua, the faithful servant of Yahweh, died. He was 110 years old when he died.
30 Lo sepultaron en el límite de su heredad en Timnat-sera, que está en la región montañosa de Efraín, al norte de la montaña Gaas.
The Israeli people buried his body on his own property in Timnath-Serah [town] town. It is north of Gaash Mountain in the hilly area of the tribe who were descendants of Ephraim.
31 Israel sirvió a Yavé todos los días de Josué, y todos los días de los ancianos que sobrevivieron a Josué y que conocían toda la obra que Yavé hizo por Israel.
The Israeli people served/worshiped Yahweh as long as Joshua was alive. After Joshua died, they continued serving/worshiping Yahweh while the elders who had experienced everything that Yahweh had done for the Israeli people were still alive.
32 Los huesos de José, que los hijos de Israel habían subido de Egipto, fueron sepultados en Siquem, en la porción del campo que Jacob compró de los hijos de Hamor, padre de Siquem, por 100 monedas, y así quedó en posesión de los hijos de José.
Joseph’s bones, which the Israeli people had brought with them from Egypt, were also buried at Shechem. The people buried them in the piece of land that Jacob had bought long ago for 100 pieces of silver from Hamor, the father of Shechem. That piece of land was in the area that was given to the people who were descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph’s sons.
33 Eleazar, hijo de Aarón, también murió, y lo sepultaron en la colina de su hijo Finees, que le fue dada en la región montañosa de Efraín.
Eleazar, the Supreme Priest, the son of Aaron, also died. They buried his body at Gibeah, in the area that had been given to Eleazar’s son Phinehas, in the hilly area that belonged to the people who were descendants of Ephraim.
