Joshua 5
1 All the kings of the people-groups to the west of the Jordan River and all the kings of the groups who were descendants of Canaan and who lived close to the [Mediterranean] Sea heard about how Yahweh had dried up the water of the Jordan [River] until all we Israeli people had crossed over. So they became very dismayed. They no longer were courageous enough to fight us.
Cuando todos los reyes amorreos al Oeste del Jordán y todos los reyes cananeos de la costa mediterránea oyeron cómo el Señor había secado las aguas del río Jordán para que los israelitas pudieran cruzarlo, su ánimo decayó y ya no tenían ningún espíritu de lucha para enfrentarse a los israelitas.
2 While [they were camped at Gilgal], Yahweh said to Joshua, “[The Israeli males who lived in Egypt were circumcised before they left there. Now] make knives from flint stones and circumcise all the Israeli males [who have been born since then].”
En ese momento, el Señor le dijo a Josué: “Haz cuchillos de piedra y circuncida a la nueva generación de israelitas”.
3 So Joshua [made knives and] circumcised the Israeli males at a place that is now called ‘Circumcision Hill’.
Josué mandó a hacer cuchillos de piedra y todos los israelitas varones fueron circuncidados en el lugar que más adelante se conoció como “la colina de los prepucios”.
4 [The reason they did that is that all the men who left Egypt], those who were old enough to be soldiers, died in the desert after they left Egypt.
Y esta es la razón por la que Josué los hizo circuncidar a todos: todos los que salieron de Egipto, los hombres en edad de luchar, habían muerto en el viaje, en medio del desierto, después del Éxodo.
5 They had been circumcised in Egypt, but the baby boys who had been born while their parents were camping in the desert after they left Egypt had not been circumcised.
Todos habían sido circuncidados cuando salieron de Egipto, pero los nacidos en el viaje desde entonces no lo habían hecho.
6 Our Israeli ancestors traveled around in the desert for 40 years, and all the men who were old enough to be soldiers had died. [The women had also died]. They had not obeyed Yahweh, so Yahweh said that they would not arrive at the land that he had promised to our ancestors that he would give to us, a land that was very fertile [MTY].
Durante cuarenta años los israelitas viajaron por el desierto hasta que todos los hombres en edad de luchar cuando salieron de Egipto ya habían muerto, porque no habían hecho lo que el Señor les había dicho que hicieran. Así que el Señor había prometido que no les dejaría ver la tierra que había prometido a sus antepasados que nos daría, una tierra que fluye leche y miel.
7 The sons of those who had disobeyed Yahweh were the ones whom Joshua circumcised at Gilgal. They were circumcised because they had not been circumcised [while they were traveling in the desert].
El Señor los reemplazó con sus hijos, y estos fueron los que Josué circuncidó. No estaban circuncidados porque no habían sido circuncidados en el camino.
8 After all the Israeli males had been circumcised, they remained in the camp and rested until their wounds were healed.
Una vez que todos fueron circuncidados, se quedaron en el campo hasta que se recuperaron.
9 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “[Because your forefathers were slaves in Egypt], the Egyptians felt a revulsion toward you. But today I have removed the revulsion the Egyptians have had toward you.” Because of that, the people called the place ‘Gilgal’, [which sounds like the Hebrew word ‘removed’, ] and it still has that name.
Entonces el Señor le dijo a Josué: “Hoy he quitado de todos ustedes la desgracia de Egipto”. Así que ese lugar se ha llamado Gilgal hasta hoy.
10 In the evening of the fourteenth day of that month, while the Israeli people were camped at Gilgal, on the plain near Jericho [city], they celebrated the Passover [Festival].
Los israelitas acamparon en Gilgal y celebraron allí la Pascua en la tarde del día 14 del primer mes.
11 The next day, they found some barley grain in the fields in that area. So they took that and roasted it and ate it with bread that was made without yeast.
A partir del día siguiente, comenzaron a comer los productos de la tierra: pan sin levadura y grano asado.
12 The next day, [God] stopped [sending] manna for the Israeli people to eat. After that, they ate food that was grown in Canaan.
El mismo día en que comenzaron a comer el producto de la tierra no hubo más maná. Desde ese momento, los israelitas no volvieron a comer maná, y en cambio comíanlo que la tierra de Canaán producía.
13 One day when Joshua came near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him. The man was holding a sword in his hand. Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you [going to fight] for us or against us?”
Un día, cuando Josué estaba cerca de Jericó, levantó la vista y vio a un hombre parado frente a él con una espada desenvainada en su mano. Josué se acercó a él y le preguntó: “¿Estás a favor o en contra de nosotros?” “Ninguna de las dos cosas”, dijo el hombre. “Soy el comandante del ejército del Señor. ¡Ahora estoy aquí!”
14 The man replied, “I am not [planning to fight with you] or [against you]. Instead, I am the commander of Yahweh’s army [in heaven], and I have come [down from there to assure you that Yahweh will help you].” Then Joshua bowed down with his face on the ground (to show his respect for/to worship) the man, and said to him, “Tell me what [you want me to do].”
Josué cayó al suelo con el rostro en alto. Y entonces dijo: “¿Qué órdenes tiene mi señor para su siervo?”
15 The commander of Yahweh’s army replied, “Take off your sandals! [I am Yahweh, and] the ground on which you are standing is holy because I am here.” So Joshua took off his sandals.
El comandante del ejército del Señor le dijo a Josué: “Quítate las sandalias, porque el lugar donde estás es tierra santa”. Y Josué lo hizo.
