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1 Cov neeg nyob Yes Lis Kos lawv thaiv lub tsheej zoo kawg kom cov His Xas Lais txeeb tsis tau. Tsis muaj neeg tawm thiab kuj tsis muaj neeg chaws mus hauv li. 2 HUAB TAIS hais rau Yos Xuas tias : “Koj saib, kuv muab lub tsheej Yes Lis Kos thiab nws tus vaj tso rau hauv koj txhais tes. 3 Nej cov ntaus rog uas muaj lub siab tawv, nej mus ncig ib lwm kom thoob lub tsheej. Nej yuav ua li ntawd rau hnub sib law. 4 Xya tus Leej Choj yuav nqa xya lub hom ua lub Xab Cog Lus ntej. Hnub xya, nej yuav mus ncig lub tsheej xya lwm. Hnub ntawd cov Leej Choj yuav tshuab hom ua ntej. 5 Thaum nej hnov suab hom nrov, tas tsoom sid sawv daws yuav qw ib tsaug loj loj xws li neeg ntaus tsam. Mas tam sim ntawd lub ntsa loog yuav vau. Ces tas sawv daws yuav nias tsam mus txeeb lub tsheej, nyias mus ncaj nraim ntawm nyias hauv ntej.”
1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in. 2 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor. 3 All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days. 4 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. 5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the city wall will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”
6 Ces Yos Xuas hu cov Leej Choj tuaj, nws hais rau lawv tias : “Nej kwv lub Xab Cog Lus. Thiab xya tus Leej Choj yuav nqa xya lub raj kub tshis ua HUAS TAIS lub Xab Cog Lus ntej.”
6 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh’s ark.”
7 Yos Xuas hais rau tsoom sid tias : “Nej mus ua ib ncig vij lub nroog.”
7 They said to the people, “Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh’s ark.”
8 It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s covenant followed them. 9 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.
10 Yos Xuas ceeb toom rau tsoom sid tias : “Nej tsis txhob qw, tsis txhob pub kom luag tej hnov nej lub suab. Nej yuav tsis txhob hais ib los lus mus txog hnub kuv hais rau nej tias : ‘Nej qw lub suab nias tsam !’ Mas thaum ntawd nej yuav qw tiag.” 14 Hnub ob, lawv ua ib ncig lub tsheej tas, lawv rov mus hauv yeej. Lawv ua li ntawd rau hnub sib law.
10 Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.” 11 So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp. 12 Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark. 13 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went. 14 The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
15 Hnub xya, lawv sawv ntxov ntxov mus ncig lub tsheej. Lawv ua xya lwm zoo li qhov qub. Kawg yog hnub ntawd xwb lawv thiaj ncig xya lwm. 16 Lwm xya, cov Leej Choj thiaj tshuab hom. Yos Xuas hais rau tsoom sid tias : “Nej qw lub suab nias tsam ! Vim HUAB TAIS muab lub tsheej no rau nej lawm !”
15 On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. On this day only they marched around the city seven times. 16 At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city! 17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. 18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it. 19 But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”
20 Ces tsoom sid qw thiab suab hom nrov doog diaj. Thaum suab hom nrov, tsoom sid qw ib suab nias tsam nrov loj tas nrho ua lub ntsa loog vau hlo. Tam sim ntawd sawv daws nce mus pem lub tsheej, nyias mus ncaj nyias xub ntiag. Lawv txeeb tau lub tsheej. 21 Lawv muab lub txim tsawm lub tsheej, lawv rhuav tas puas tsav yam nyob hauv lub tsheej. Txiv neej, poj niam, laus hluas, me nyuj, me yaj, me luj. Lawv xuas ntaj tua pov tseg tas tib si.
20 So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city. 21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword. 22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.” 23 The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel. 24 They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house. 25 But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26 Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates.” 27 So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.