Joshua 3
1 Joshua [and all the other Israelis] got up early [the next] morning. They left [their camp at] Acacia and went [down] to the Jordan [River]. They camped there for two nights.
ヨシユア朝はやく起いでてイスラエルの人々とともにシツテムを打發てヨルダンにゆき之を濟らずして其處に宿りぬ
2 Then the leaders went throughout the camp,
斯て三日の後有司ら陣營の中をめぐり
3 telling the people, “You will see some of the priests, who are descendants of Levi, carrying the chest that contains the Ten Commandments that Yahweh our God gave us. When you see them, leave the places where you are camped and follow them.
民に命じて曰ふ汝ら祭司等レビ人がなんぢらの神ヱホバの契約の櫃を舁出すを見ば其處を發出てその後に從がへ
4 You have not been (here/along this road) before, [so you must follow the priests]. But do not walk close to the chest. Stay (1,000 yards/900 meters) from the chest. [The chest is sacred, so (God will punish you/you will be punished) if you come close to it].”
されど汝らとその櫃との間には量りて凡そ二千キユビト許の隔離あるべし之に近づく勿れなんぢらその行べき途を知んためなり汝らは未だこの途を經しことなかりき
5 Then Joshua told the people, “Perform the ceremonies needed to make yourselves acceptable to Yahweh, because tomorrow he is going to do things for you that will amaze you!”
ヨシユアまた民に言ふ汝ら身を潔めよヱホバ明日なんぢらの中に妙なる事を行ひたまふべしと
6 Then Joshua said to the priests, “Carry the chest and go in front of the [rest of the] people.” So they lifted up the chest and went ahead.
ヨシユア祭司等に告ていふ契約の櫃を舁き民に先だちて濟れと則ち契約の櫃を舁き民に先だちて進めり
7 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “This is the day that I will begin to show all the Israeli people that you are a great leader. Then they will honor you, and know that I am with/helping you as I (was with/helped) Moses.
ヱホバ、ヨシユアに言たまひけるは今日よりして我イスラエルの衆の目の前に汝を尊くし我がモーセと偕にありし如く汝と偕にあることを之に知せん
8 Tell the priests who are carrying the chest that contains the Ten Commandments, ‘When you come to the edge of the Jordan [River], stand in the water.’”
なんぢ契約の櫃を舁ところの祭司等に命じて言へ汝らヨルダンの水際にゆかばヨルダンにいりて立べしと
9 Then Joshua said to the Israeli people, “Come close to me in order that you can listen to what Yahweh, your God, is saying.”
ヨシユアでイスラエルの人々にむかひて汝ら此に近づき汝らの神ヱホバの言を聽けと
10 [When they came near], he said to them, “This is how you will know that God, who is all-powerful, is among you, and that he will expel for you the descendants of Canaan, Heth, Hiv, Periz, Girgash, Amor, and Jebus [who are now living in that land].
而してヨシユア語りけらく活神なんぢらの中に在してカナン人ヘテ人ヒビ人ペリジ人ギルガジ人アモリ人ヱブス人を汝らの前より必ず逐はらひたまふべきを左の事によりてなんぢら知るべし
11 Keep in mind that Yahweh is the one who rules over all the earth. The chest belongs to him, and it will be carried into the Jordan River ahead of you.
視よ全地の主の契約の櫃なんぢらに先だちてヨルダンにすすみ入る
12 So choose twelve men, [one from each] of the tribes of Israel, [and I will tell you later what I want them to do].
然ば今イスラエルの支派の中より支派ごとに一人づつ合せて十二人を擧よ
13 As for the priests who are carrying the chest, as soon as they put their feet into the Jordan [River], the water will stop flowing. It will pile up because I will cause it to be blocked upstream.”
全地の主ヱホバの櫃を舁ところの祭司等の足の蹠ヨルダンの水の中に踏とどまらばヨルダンの水上より流れくだる水きれとどまり立てうづだかくならん
14 So when the [Israeli] people packed up their tents in order to cross the river, the priests who were carrying the chest containing the Ten Commandments went in front of them.
かくて民はヨルダンを濟らんとてその幕屋を立出祭司等は契約の櫃を舁て之に先だちゆく
15 [It was springtime], when people harvest their crops, [and] at that time the river floods over its banks. But as soon as the priests reached the edge of the river and stepped into the water,
抑々ヨルダンは収穫の頃には絶ずその岸にことごとく溢るるなれど櫃を舁く者等ヨルダンに到り櫃を舁ける祭司等の足水際に浸ると斉しく
16 the water stopped flowing. The water piled up far [upstream], at a town named Adam, near Zarethan. The water stopped flowing down to the Dead Sea. So the people were able to cross the river near Jericho.
上より流れくだる水止まりて遥に遠き處まで涸れザレタンに近きアダム邑の邊にて積り起て堆かくなりアラバの海すなはち鹽海の方に流れくだる水まつたく截止りたれば民ヱリコにむかひて直に濟れり
17 The priests who were carrying the chest containing the Ten Commandments that Yahweh [had given them] stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan [riverbed], while the rest of the Israeli people crossed the river [as though they were crossing] dry ground.
即ちヱホバの契約の櫃を舁る祭司等ヨルダンの中の乾ける地に堅く立をりてイスラエル人みな乾ける地を渉りゆき遂に民ことごとくヨルダンを濟りつくせり
