Livro de Josué 3

SAGRADA BIBLIA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Levantando-se bem cedo, Josué desfez o acampamento e partiu de Setim com todos os filhos de Israel. Chegados ao Jordão, aí se detiveram antes de atravessá-lo.	1 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 Passados três dias, os oficiais atravessaram pelo meio do acampamento,	2 After which, the heralds went through the midst of the camp,
3 dando ao povo esta ordem: Quando virdes a arca da aliança do Senhor, vosso Deus, levada pelos sacerdotes, filhos de Levi, deixareis vosso acampamento e vos poreis em marcha, seguindo-a.	3 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 Haja entre vós e ela uma distância de dois mil côvados aproximadamente. Guardai-vos de vos aproximar dela. Isso para que possais conhecer o caminho por onde deveis ir, porque nunca passastes por ele.	4 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 Josué disse ao povo: Santificai-vos, porque amanhã o Senhor operará no meio de vós coisas maravilhosas.	5 And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
6 Depois falou aos sacerdotes: Tomai a arca da aliança e ide, adiante do povo. Eles tomaram a arca da aliança e caminharam à testa do povo.	6 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 O Senhor disse a Josué: Hoje começarei a exaltar-te diante de todo o Israel, para que saibam que, assim como estive com Moisés, assim estarei contigo.	7 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 Eis o que ordenarás aos sacerdotes que levam a arca da aliança: quando chegardes ao Jordão, deter-vos-eis junto às águas do rio.	8 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 Então Josué disse aos israelitas: Aproximai-vos e ouvi as palavras do Senhor, vosso Deus.	9 And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither and hear the word of the Lord your God.
10 Por isso, prosseguiu ele, sabereis que o Deus vivo está no meio de vós, e que ele expulsará de diante de vós os cananeus, os hiteus, os heveus, os ferezeus, os gergeseus, os amorreus e os jebuseus.	10 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 da aliança do Senhor de toda a terra vai atravessar diante de vós o Jordão.	11 Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you into the Jordan.
12 Tomai doze homens, um de cada tribo de Israel.	12 Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.
13 Logo que os sacerdotes que levam a arca de Javé, o Senhor de toda a terra, tiverem tocado com a planta dos seus pés as águas do Jordão, estas serão cortadas, e as águas que vêm de cima pararão, amontoando-se.	13 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 O povo dobrou suas tendas e dispôs-se a passar o Jordão, tendo diante de si os sacerdotes que marchavam na frente do povo levando a arca.	14 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 No momento em que os portadores da arca chegaram ao rio e os sacerdotes mergulharam os seus pés na beira do rio - o Jordão estava transbordante e inundava suas margens durante todo o tempo da ceifa -,	15 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 detiveram-se e amontoaram-se em uma grande extensão, até perto de Adom, localidade situada nas proximidades de Sartã; e as águas que desciam para o mar da planície, o mar Salgado, foram completamente separadas. O povo atravessou defronte de Jericó.	16 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 Os sacerdotes, que levavam a arca da aliança do Senhor, conservaram-se de pé sobre o leito seco do Jordão, enquanto que todo o Israel passava a pé enxuto. E ali permaneceram até que todos passassem para a outra margem.	17 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.