Joshua 3
1 Therfor Josue roos bi nyyt, and mouede tentis; and thei yeden out of Sechym, and camen to Jordan, he and alle the sones of Israel, and dwelliden there thre daies.
Igitur Iosue de nocte consurgens movit castra: egredientesque de Setim, venerunt ad Iordanem ipse, et omnes filii Israel, et morati sunt ibi per tres dies.
2 And whanne tho daies weren passid, crieris yeden thorouy the myddis of tentis,
Quibus evolutis, transierunt praecones per castrorum medium,
3 and bigunnen to crie, Whanne ye seen the arke of boond of pees of youre Lord God, and the preestis of the generacioun of Leuy berynge it, also rise ye, and sue the biforgoeris;
et clamare coeperunt: Quando videritis arcam foederis Domini Dei vestri, et sacerdotes stirpis Leviticae portantes eam, vos quoque consurgite, et sequimini praecedentes:
4 and a space of twey thousynde cubitis be bitwixe you and the arke, that ye moun se fer, and knowe bi what weie ye schulen entre, for ye `yeden not bifore bi it; and be ye war, that ye neiye not to the arke.
sitque inter vos et arcam spatium cubitorum duum millium: ut procul videre possitis, et nosse per quam viam ingrediamini: quia prius non ambulastis per eam: et cavete ne appropinquetis ad arcam.
5 And Josue seide to the puple, Be ye halewid, for to morew the Lord schal make merueilis among you.
Dixitque Iosue ad populum: Sanctificamini: cras enim faciet Dominus inter vos mirabilia.
6 And Josue seide to the preestis, Take ye the arke of the boond of pees `of the Lord, and go ye bifor the puple. Whiche filliden the heestis, and tooken the arke, and yeden bifor hem.
Et ait ad sacerdotes: Tollite arcam foederis, et praecedite populum. Qui iussa complentes, tulerunt, et ambulaverunt ante eos.
7 And the Lord seide to Josue, To dai Y schal bigynne to enhaunse thee bifor al Israel, that thei wite, that as Y was with Moises, so Y am also with thee.
Dixitque Dominus ad Iosue: Hodie incipiam exaltare te coram omni Israel: ut sciant quod sicut cum Moyse fui, ita et tecum sim.
8 Forsothe comaunde thou to preestis, that beren the arke of bond of pees, and seie thou to hem, Whanne ye han entrid in to a part of the watir of Jordan, stonde ye therynne.
Tu autem praecipe sacerdotibus, qui portant arcam foederis, et dic eis: Cum ingressi fueritis partem aquae Iordanis, state in ea.
9 And Josue seide to the sones of Israel, Neiye ye hidur, and here ye the word of youre Lord God.
Dixitque Iosue ad filios Israel: Accedite huc, et audite verbum Domini Dei vestri.
10 And eft he seide, In this ye schulen wite that the Lord God lyuynge is in the myddis of you; and he schal distrye in youre siyt Cananey, Ethei, Euey, and Feresei, and Gergesei, and Jebusei, and Amorrei.
Et rursum: In hoc, inquit, scietis quod Dominus Deus vivens in medio vestri est, et disperdet in conspectu vestro Chananaeum et Hethaeum, Hevaeum et Pherezaeum, Gergesaeum quoque et Iebusaeum, et Amorrhaeum.
11 Lo! the arke of boond of pees of the Lord of al erthe schal go bifor you thorouy Jordan.
Ecce, arca foederis Domini omnis terrae antecedet vos per Iordanem.
12 Make ye redi twelue men of the twelue lynagis of Israel, bi ech lynage o man.
Parate duodecim viros de tribubus Israel, singulos per singulas tribus.
13 And whanne the preestis, that beren the arke of boond of pees of the Lord God of al erthe, han set the steppis of her feet in the watris of Jordan, the watris that ben lowere schulen renne doun, and schulen faile; forsothe the watris that comen fro aboue schulen stonde togidere in o gobet.
Et cum posuerint vestigia pedum suorum sacerdotes qui portant arcam Domini Dei universae terrae in aquis Iordanis, aquae, quae inferiores sunt, decurrent atque deficient: quae autem desuper veniunt, in una mole consistent.
14 Therfor the puple yede out of her tabernaclis to passe Jordan; and the preestis that baren the arke of boond of pees yeden bifor the puple.
Igitur egressus est populus de tabernaculis suis, ut transiret Iordanem: et sacerdotes, qui portabant arcam foederis, pergebant ante eum.
15 And whanne the preestis entriden in to Jordan, and her feet weren dippid in the part of watir; forsothe Jordan `hadde fillid the brynkis of his trow in the tyme of `ripe corn;
Ingressisque eis Iordanem, et pedibus eorum in parte aquae tinctis (Iordanis autem ripas alvei sui tempore messis impleverat)
16 the watris yeden doun, and stoden in o place, and wexiden grete at the licnesse of an hil, and apperiden fer fro the citee that was clepid Edom, `til to the place of Sarthan; sotheli the watris that weren lowere yeden doun in to the see of wildirnesse, which is now clepid the deed see, `til the watris failiden outirli.
steterunt aquae descendentes in loco uno, et ad instar montis intumescentes apparebant procul ab urbe, quae vocatur Adom usque ad locum Sarthan: quae autem inferiores erant, in Mare solitudinis (quod nunc vocatur mortuum) descenderunt, usquequo omnino deficerent.
17 Forsothe the puple yede thorouy Jordan; and the preestis, that baren the arke of the boond of pees of the Lord, stoden gird on the drie erthe in the myddis of Jordan, and al the puple passide thorouy the drie trow.
Populus autem incedebat contra Iordanem: et sacerdotes qui portabant arcam foederis Domini, stabant super siccam humum in medio Iordanis accincti, omnisque populus per arentem alveum transibat.
