I.II. COV HIS XAS LAIS HLA TUS DEJ YOS LAS DAS
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1 Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over. 2 After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp; 3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it. 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits† by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”
5 Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”
6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
7 HUAB TAIS hais rau Yos Xuas tias : “Hnub no, kuv yuav ua kom koj loj tuaj rau tas tsoom His Xas Lais pom, kom lawv paub tias kuv yuav nrog koj ib yam li kuv nrog Mais Xes. Koj yuav ceeb toom rau cov Leej Choj kwv lub Xab Cog Lus li no : thaum nej mus txog ntawm ntug dej Yos Las Das lawm, nej yuav mus nyob hauv nruab nrab tus dej.” Ces Yos Xuas hais rau cov His Xas Lais tias : “Nej txav los mloog HUAB TAIS Tswv Ntuj cov lus !”
7 Yahweh 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. 8 You 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.’ ”
10 Yos Xuas hais tias : “Nej yuav pom tias Tswv Ntuj yog ib tug Tswv Ntuj muaj txoj sia nyob hauv nruab nrab nej, vim nej yuav pom ib yam zoo li no : 11 HUAB TAIS uas yog tus Tswv kav tas lub ntiaj teb, nws lub Xab Cog Lus yuav hla tus dej Yos Las Das ua nej ntej. 13 Thaum cov Leej Choj kwv HUAB TAIS lub Xab Cog Lus mus tsuj cov dej Yos Las Das, mas tam sim ntawd dej yuav tsis ntws ntxiv. Cov dej yuav nres ua ib pawg nyob pem hauv dej !
9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.” 10 Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you. 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord‡ of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan. 12 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. 13 It shall be that 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. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.”
14 Thaum tsoom pej xeem His Xas Lais sawv kev mus hla tus dej Yos Las Das, mas cov Leej Choj kwv lub Xab Cog Lus mus ua sawv daws ntej. 15 Thaum ntawd yog lub caij sau nplej, tus dej Yos Las Das phwj dhau ob sab ntug. 16 Cov kwv lub Xab Cog Lus nyuam qhuav txog ntawm ntug dej Yos Las Das xwb, cov Leej Choj ko taw nyuam qhuav tsuj cov dej, ces cov dej ntws pem hauv los theem kiag, thiab dej teev kiag ua ob lub pas dej siab siab nyob ob sab, txij As Das mus txog lub yeej Xas Taas. Hos cov dej nram hav ntws mus txog lub hiav txwv daw ntsev hu ua hiav txwv As Las Npas. Tsoom pej xeem hla dej ncaj ntawm lub tsheej Yes Lis Kos. 17 Cov Leej Choj uas lawv kwv lub Xab Cog Lus, lawv sawv ntsug nyob hauv nruab nrab tus dej Yos Las Das, lawv ko taw qhuav tsis ntub dej, thiab tas tsoom His Xas Lais kuj hla dej, ko taw tsis ntub dej li. Tas haiv His Xas Lais hla dej zoo li ntawd.
14 When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people, 15 and 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), 16 the 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 near Jericho. 17 The priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.