여호수아 3

1여호수아가 아침에 일찍이 일어나서 이스라엘 사람들로 더불어 싯딤에서 떠나 요단에 이르러서는 건너지 아니하고 거기서 유숙하니라 2삼 일 후에 유사들이 진중으로 두루 다니며 3백성에게 명하여 가로되 너희는 레위 사람 제사장들이 너희 하나님 여호와의 언약궤 메는 것을 보거든 너희 곳을 떠나 그 뒤를 좇으라 4그러나 너희와 그 사이 상거가 이천 규빗쯤 되게 하고 그것에 가까이 하지는 말라 그리하면 너희 행할 길을 알리니 너희가 이전에 이 길을 지나보지 못하였음이니라 5여호수아가 또 백성에게 이르되 너희는 스스로 성결케 하라 여호와께서 내일 너희 가운데 기사를 행하시리라 6여호수아가 또 제사장들에게 일러 가로되 언약궤를 메고 백성 앞서 건너라 하매 곧 언약궤를 메고 백성 앞서 나아가니라 7여호와께서 여호수아에게 이르시되 내가 오늘부터 시작하여 너를 온 이스라엘의 목전에서 크게 하여 내가 모세와 함께 있던 것 같이 너와 함께 있는 것을 그들로 알게 하리라 8너는 언약궤를 멘 제사장들에게 명하여 이르기를 너희가 요단 물 가에 이르거든 요단에 들어서라 하라 9여호수아가 이스라엘 자손에게 이르되 이리 와서 너희 하나님 여호와의 말씀을 들으라 하고 10또 말하되 사시는 하나님이 너희 가운데 계시사 가나안 족속과 헷 족속과 히위 족속과 브리스 족속과 기르가스 족속과 아모리 족속과 여부스 족속을 너희 앞에서 정녕히 쫓아내실 줄을 이 일로 너희가 알리라 11보라 온 땅의 주의 언약궤가 너희 앞서 요단으로 들어가나니 12이제 이스라엘 지파 중에서 매 지파에 한 사람씩 십이 명을 택하라 13온 땅의 주 여호와의 궤를 멘 제사장들의 발바닥이 요단 물을 밟고 멈추면 요단 물 곧 위에서부터 흘러 내리던 물이 끊어지고 쌓여 서리라 14백성이 요단을 건너려고 자기들의 장막을 떠날 때에 제사장들은 언약궤를 메고 백성 앞에서 행하니라 15(요단이 모맥 거두는 시기에는 항상 언덕에 넘치더라) 궤를 멘 자들이 요단에 이르며 궤를 멘 제사장들의 발이 물가에 잠기자 16곧 위에서부터 흘러 내리던 물이 그쳐서 심히 멀리 사르단에 가까운 아담 읍 변방에 일어나 쌓이고 아라바의 바다 염해로 향하여 흘러가는 물은 온전히 끊어지매 백성이 여리고 앞으로 바로 건널새 17여호와의 언약궤를 멘 제사장들은 요단 가운데 마른 땅에 굳게 섰고 온 이스라엘 백성은 마른 땅으로 행하여 요단을 건너니라

1Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They lodged there before they passed over. 2After three days, the officers went through the midst of the camp; 3and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it. 4Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Don’t come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.” 5Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.” 6Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. 7Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. 8You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’” 9Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.” 10Joshua said, “Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you. 11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan. 12Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. 13It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.” 14When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people, 15and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), 16the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho. 17The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.

1Jozua dan maakte zich des morgens vroeg op, en zij reisden van Sittim, en kwamen tot aan de Jordaan, hij en al de kinderen Israels; en zij vernachtten aldaar, eer zij overtrokken. 2En het geschiedde, dat de ambtlieden, op het einde van drie dagen, door het midden des legers gingen; 3En zij geboden het volk, zeggende: Wanneer gij de ark des verbonds des HEEREN, uws Gods, ziet, en de Levietische priesters dezelve dragende, verreist gijlieden ook van uw plaats, en volgt haar na; 4Dat er nochtans ruimte zij tussen ulieden en tussen dezelve, bij de twee duizend ellen in de maat; en nadert tot dezelve niet; opdat gij dien weg wetet, dien gij gaan zult; want gijlieden zijt door dien weg niet gegaan gisteren en eergisteren. 5Jozua zeide ook tot het volk: Heiligt u! want morgen zal de HEERE wonderheden in het midden van ulieden doen. 6Desgelijks sprak Jozua tot de priesters, zeggende: Neemt de ark des verbonds op, en gaat door voor het aangezicht van dit volk. Zij dan namen de ark des verbonds op, en zij gingen voor het aangezicht des volks. 7Want de HEERE had tot Jozua gezegd: Dezen dag zal Ik beginnen u groot te maken voor de ogen van gans Israel, opdat zij weten, dat Ik met u zijn zal, gelijk als Ik met Mozes geweest ben. 8Gij dan zult den priesteren, die de ark des verbonds dragen, gebieden, zeggende: Wanneer gijlieden komt tot aan het uiterste van het water van de Jordaan, staat stil in de Jordaan. 9Toen zeide Jozua tot de kinderen Israels: Nadert herwaarts, en hoort de woorden des HEEREN, uws Gods. 10Verder zeide Jozua: Hieraan zult gijlieden bekennen, dat de levende God in het midden van u is, en dat Hij ganselijk voor uw aangezicht uitdrijven zal de Kanaanieten, en de Hethieten, en de Hevieten, en de Ferezieten, en de Girgazieten, en de Amorieten en de Jebusieten. 11Ziet, de ark des verbonds van den Heere der ganse aarde gaat door voor ulieder aangezicht in de Jordaan. 12Nu dan, neemt gijlieden u twaalf mannen uit de stammen Israels, uit iederen stam een man; 13Want het zal geschieden, met dat de voetzolen der priesteren, die de ark van den HEERE, den Heere der ganse aarde, dragen, in het water van de Jordaan zullen rusten, zo zullen de wateren van de Jordaan afgesneden worden, te weten de wateren, die van boven afvlieten, en zij zullen op een hoop blijven staan. 14En het geschiedde, toen het volk vertrok uit zijn tenten, om over de Jordaan te gaan, zo droegen de priesters de ark des verbonds voor het aangezicht des volks. 15En als zij, die de ark droegen, tot aan de Jordaan gekomen waren, en de voeten der priesteren, dragende de ark, ingedoopt waren in het uiterste van het water (de Jordaan nu was vol al de dagen des oogstes aan al haar oevers); 16Zo stonden de wateren, die van boven afkwamen; zij rezen op een hoop, zeer verre van de stad Adam af, die ter zijde van Sarthan ligt en die naar de zee des vlakken velds, te weten de Zoutzee, afliepen, vergingen, zij werden afgesneden. Toen trok het volk over, tegenover Jericho. 17Maar de priesters, die de ark des verbonds des HEEREN droegen, stonden steevast op het droge, in het midden van de Jordaan; en gans Israel ging over op het droge, totdat al het volk geeindigd had door de Jordaan te trekken.