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1 Temprano en la mañana del día siguiente Josué y todo el pueblo de Israel salieron de Sitín y llegaron a las riberas del río Jordán, donde acamparon durante varios días 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 tercer día, los oficiales recorrieron el campamento
2 After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp;
3 dando estas instrucciones: «Cuando vean que los sacerdotes llevan el cofre de Dios síganlos.
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 Ustedes jamás han estado en el lugar a donde van a entrar ahora, de modo que ellos los guiarán. Sin embargo, permanecerán novecientos metros detrás de ellos dejando esa distancia entre ustedes y el cofre. No se acerquen más de esto».
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 le dijo al pueblo entonces: «Purifíquense, 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 En la mañana, Josué les dijo a los sacerdotes: «Tomen el cofre y guíennos en el cruce del río». Y ellos emprendieron la marcha.
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 El Señor le dijo a Josué: «Hoy comenzaré a exaltarte para que todo Israel sepa que yo estoy contigo de la misma manera que 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 Ordena a los sacerdotes que llevan el cofre que se detengan a la orilla del río».
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 reunió a todo el pueblo y les dijo: «Acérquense y oigan lo que el Señor nuestro Dios ha dicho.
9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”
10 Hoy sabrán en forma cierta que el Dios vivo está entre nosotros y que él expulsará a los cananeos, a los hititas, a los heveos, a los ferezeos, a los gergeseos, a los jebuseos y a los amorreos, pueblos que ahora viven en la tierra que ustedes van a ocupar.
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 ¿Se dan cuenta? El cofre de Dios, Señor de toda la tierra, nos guiará a través del río Jordán.
11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
12 Ahora elijan doce hombres, uno de cada tribu, para una tarea especial.
12 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
13 Cuando los sacerdotes que transportan el cofre toquen el agua con sus pies, el río cesará de correr, como si fuera retenido por un dique».
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 Era la época de la siega y el Jordán se desbordaba; pero cuando el pueblo comenzó a cruzar el río, en cuanto los pies de los sacerdotes tocaron el agua en la orilla,
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 Not in this translation
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 repentinamente, lejos de allí, en la ciudad de Adán, cerca de Saretán, el agua comenzó a amontonarse como si hubiera un dique. Después de este punto, el agua siguió corriendo hasta el Mar Salado, de modo que el lecho del río quedó seco. Entonces todo el pueblo cruzó el río por la parte que estaba cerca de la ciudad de 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 y los sacerdotes que llevaban el cofre se quedaron en tierra seca en medio del Jordán esperando que todo el pueblo cruzara.
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 (16)
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- 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
- 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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