Joshua · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Joshua 3 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Josué se levantó temprano por la mañana. Él y todos los hijos de Israel salieron de Sitim y llegaron al Jordán. Allí pasaron la noche antes de cruzarlo.
1 Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.
2 Al cabo de tres días, los oficiales recorrieron el campamento
2 After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp;
3 y dieron esta orden al pueblo: «Cuando vean el arca del pacto del Señor su Dios llevada por los sacerdotes levitas, salgan de donde están y síganla.
3 and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it.
4 Pero mantengan una distancia de unos dos mil codos entre ustedes y el arca. No se acerquen más, para que puedan ver el camino que deben seguir, porque nunca antes han pasado por aquí».
4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”
5 Josué dijo al pueblo: «Conságrense, porque mañana el Señor hará maravillas entre ustedes».
5 Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”
6 Después Josué dijo a los sacerdotes: «Tomen el arca del pacto y pasen delante del pueblo». Ellos tomaron el arca del pacto y fueron delante del pueblo.
6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
7 Entonces el Señor dijo a Josué: «Desde hoy comenzaré a engrandecerte ante todo Israel, para que sepan que estaré contigo como estuve con Moisés.
7 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
8 Da esta orden a los sacerdotes que llevan el arca del pacto: “Cuando lleguen al borde de las aguas del Jordán, deténganse allí”».
8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”
9 Josué dijo a los hijos de Israel: «Acérquense y escuchen las palabras del Señor su Dios».
9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”
10 Josué añadió: «Por esto sabrán que el Dios vivo está entre ustedes y que expulsará delante de ustedes a los cananeos, hititas, heveos, ferezeos, gergeseos, amorreos y jebuseos.
10 Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.
11 Miren, el arca del pacto del Señor de toda la tierra cruzará el Jordán delante de ustedes.
11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
12 Ahora escojan doce hombres de las tribus de Israel, uno de cada tribu.
12 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
13 Cuando los pies de los sacerdotes que llevan el arca del Señor, el Señor de toda la tierra, toquen las aguas del Jordán, las aguas que vienen de arriba dejarán de correr y se amontonarán».
13 It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.”
14 Cuando el pueblo salió de sus tiendas para cruzar el Jordán, los sacerdotes que llevaban el arca del pacto iban delante de ellos.
14 When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
15 Cuando los que llevaban el arca llegaron al Jordán y los pies de los sacerdotes tocaron la orilla del agua —el Jordán se desborda durante todo el tiempo de la cosecha—,
15 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
16 las aguas que venían de arriba se detuvieron y se amontonaron a gran distancia, cerca de Adán, una ciudad junto a Saretán. Las aguas que corrían hacia el mar del Arabá, el mar Salado, quedaron cortadas. Así el pueblo cruzó frente a Jericó.
16 the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
17 Los sacerdotes que llevaban el arca del pacto del Señor permanecieron firmes sobre tierra seca en medio del Jordán, mientras todo Israel cruzaba por tierra seca, hasta que toda la nación terminó de pasar el Jordán.
17 The priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joshua 2:1; Mark 1:35; Genesis 22:3; Jeremiah 7:13; Numbers 25:1
- 2 Joshua 1:10–11
- 3 Deuteronomy 31:9; 2 Samuel 6:13; Exodus 13:21–22; Numbers 10:33; Joshua 3:8
- 4 Psalm 89:7; Exodus 3:5; Hebrews 12:28–29; Exodus 19:12; 1 Chronicles 11:2
- 5 Leviticus 20:7; Joshua 7:13; 1 Samuel 16:5; Joel 2:16; John 17:19
- 6 Numbers 10:33; John 14:2–3; Joshua 3:3; Micah 2:13; Numbers 14:15
- 7 Joshua 4:14; Joshua 1:5; 1 Chronicles 29:25; 2 Chronicles 1:1; Psalm 18:35
- 8 Joshua 3:3; Joshua 3:17; 2 Chronicles 31:9–10; 2 Chronicles 35:2–6; 2 Chronicles 29:27
- 9 Deuteronomy 4:1; Deuteronomy 12:8
- 10 Deuteronomy 7:1; Exodus 33:2; Psalm 44:2–3; Hebrews 10:31; 1 Samuel 17:26
- 11 Zechariah 6:5; Psalm 24:1; Zechariah 4:14; Joshua 3:13; Micah 4:13
- 12 Joshua 4:2; Joshua 4:4; Joshua 4:9
- 13 Exodus 15:8; Psalm 78:13; Joshua 3:11; Joshua 3:15–16; Psalm 33:7
- 14 Acts 7:44–45; Psalm 132:8; Joshua 3:3; Hebrews 9:4; 1 Corinthians 1:24–25
- 15 1 Chronicles 12:15; Jeremiah 12:5; Jeremiah 49:19; Joshua 3:13; Joshua 4:18
- 16 Joshua 3:13; 1 Kings 4:12; 1 Kings 7:46; Genesis 14:3; Deuteronomy 1:1
- 17 Exodus 14:29; Exodus 14:22; Psalm 66:6; Isaiah 25:8; 2 Kings 2:8
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… when touched by the feet of the priests who bore the Ark, stood still from above with bridled stream, while it flowed down from below, where it ran on into the sea, until the whole people passed over, the priests standing on the dry ground. We know these things, but yet we should not imagine in this Psalm, to which …
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