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.
| در سمت غربی رود اردن، اموری‌ها و در امتداد ساحل دریای مدیترانه کنعانی‌ها سکونت داشتند. پادشاهان آنها وقتی شنیدند که خداوند به خاطر بنی‌اسرائیل راه خشکی از میان رود اردن پدید آورده تا از آن عبور کنند، سخت ترسیدند و جرأت مقابله با اسرائیل را از دست دادند. |
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].”
| در این موقع خداوند به یوشع فرمود: «کاردها از سنگ چخماق بساز و این نسل دوم بنی‌اسرائیل را ختنه کن.» |
3 So Joshua [made knives and] circumcised the Israeli males at a place that is now called ‘Circumcision Hill’.
| پس یوشع کاردها از سنگ چخماق ساخت و همۀ مردان اسرائیل را در «جِبعه هاعَرَلوت» ختنه کرد. |
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.
| دلیل این کار این بود که تمام مردانی که به سن جنگیدن رسیده بودند و موقع بیرون آمدن از مصر ختنه شده بودند، همگی در بیابان مرده بودند و پسران آنها که پس از خروج از مصر متولد شده بودند، ختنه نشده بودند. |
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.
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].
| قوم اسرائیل چهل سال در بیابان سرگردان بودند تا اینکه تمام مردانی که هنگام بیرون آمدن از مصر به سن جنگیدن رسیده بودند، مردند. آنها چون خداوند را اطاعت نکردند، او هم قسم خورد که نگذارد وارد سرزمینی شوند که وعدهٔ آن را به اجدادشان داده بود زمینی که شیر و عسل در آن جاری است. |
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].
| پس یوشع پسرانی را که بزرگ شده بودند و می‌بایست جای پدران خود را بگیرند، ختنه کرد. |
8 After all the Israeli males had been circumcised, they remained in the camp and rested until their wounds were healed.
| پس از انجام عمل ختنه، همه در اردوگاه به استراحت پرداختند تا بهبود یابند. |
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.
| سپس خداوند به یوشع فرمود: «امروز ننگ مصر را از روی شما برداشتم.» جایی که اسرائیلی‌ها ختنه شدند، جلجال نامیده شد و تا به امروز به همان نام باقی است. |
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].
| هنگامی که قوم اسرائیل در جلجال واقع در دشت اریحا اردو زده بودند، شب چهاردهم ماه، عید پِسَح را جشن گرفتند. |
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.
| روز بعد به خوردن محصولات سرزمینی که وارد آن شده بودند پرداختند و از گندم آنجا نان فطیر پختند. |
12 The next day, [God] stopped [sending] manna for the Israeli people to eat. After that, they ate food that was grown in Canaan.
| پس از آن، نان آسمانی که به «مَنّا» معروف بود متوقف گردید و دیگر هرگز دیده نشد! قوم اسرائیل پس از آن برای خوراک، از محصولات سرزمین کنعان استفاده می‌کردند. |
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?”
| روزی یوشع که به شهر اریحا نزدیک شده بود، چشمش به مردی شمشیر به دست افتاد. یوشع به سوی او رفت و پرسید: «دوست هستی یا دشمن؟» |
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].”
| آن مرد به یوشع گفت: «من سردار لشکر خداوند هستم.» یوشع روی بر زمین نهاد و سجده کرده، گفت: «هر امری داری به بنده‌ات بفرما.» |
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.
| او به یوشع گفت: «کفشهایت را درآور، زیرا جایی که ایستاده‌ای مقدّس است.» یوشع اطاعت کرد. |
