中英对照

1. 1.第二天早晨，约书亚和所有以色列人从设提姆出发，向约旦河进发，他们没有立即过河，而是就在那里住宿。Early next morning, Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and marched to the Jordan. They did not cross immediately, but spent the night there. 💡
2. 2.三天以后，官员们巡视营地Three days later, the officials went through the camp 💡
3. 3.并且向众人这样吩咐：“当你们看见耶和华你们的神的约柜被利未的祭司抬着的时候，你们就要起行，跟随它——and charged the people as follows: “When you see the Ark of the Covenant of the ETERNAL your God being borne by the levitical priests, you shall move forward. Follow it—💡
4. 4.但要与它保持二千肘的距离，不可靠近它，这样你们就知道要走哪条路，因为这是你们以前没有走过的路。but keep a distance of some two thousand cubits from it, never coming any closer to it—so that you may know by what route to march, since it is a road you have not traveled before.” 💡
5. 5.约书亚对百姓说，你们要自洁，因为明天耶和华要在你们中间行奇事。And Joshua said to the people, “Purify yourselves, for tomorrow GOD will perform wonders in your midst.”💡
6. 6.约书亚吩咐祭司们说：“抬起约柜，走在百姓的前头。”他们就抬起约柜，走在百姓的前头。Then Joshua ordered the priests, “Take up the Ark of the Covenant and advance to the head of the people.” And they took up the Ark of the Covenant and marched at the head of the people.💡
7. 7.上帝对约书亚说，今日我要使你在以色列众人眼前尊大，好叫他们知道我怎样与摩西同在，也必与你同在。 GOD said to Joshua, “This day, for the first time, I will exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so that they shall know that I will be with you as I was with Moses.💡
8. 8.至于你，你要吩咐抬约柜的祭司说：‘你们到了约旦河的水边，就要在约旦河停住。’For your part, command the priests who carry the Ark of the Covenant as follows: When you reach the edge of the waters of the Jordan, make a halt in the Jordan.”💡
9. 9.约书亚对以色列人说，靠近些，听以色列人的神永恒主的话。And Joshua said to the Israelites, “Come closer and listen to the words of the ETERNAL your God.💡
10. 10.约书亚继续说：“这样，你们就知道有活神与你们同在，他也必在你们面前赶出迦南人、希威人、耶布斯人、比利洗人、革迦撒人、亚摩利人和希未人。By this,” Joshua continued, “you shall know that a living God is among you, and that [God] will dispossess for you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites: 💡
11. 11.普天下主的约柜在你前面进了约旦河the Ark of the Covenant of the Sovereign of all the earth is advancing before you into the Jordan.💡
12. 12.现在从以色列各支派中选出十二个人，每支派选一人。Now select twelve individuals from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. 💡
13. 13.当抬着上帝——全地之主的约柜的祭司脚站在约旦河水中，约旦河水——从上游流来的水——必然断流，聚集成一堆停在下游。When the feet of the priests bearing the Ark of GOD, the Sovereign of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan—the water coming from upstream—will be cut off and will stand in a single heap.”💡
14. 14.当百姓从营地出发要过约旦河的时候，抬约柜的祭司走在百姓的前头。When the people set out from their encampment to cross the Jordan, the priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant were at the head of the people. 💡
15. 15.现在约但河在收获季节里水满整个河床。但是，当抬着约柜的祭司到达约但河，将他们的脚一沾到河边的水中，Now the Jordan keeps flowing over its entire bed throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the bearers of the Ark reached the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the Ark dipped into the water at its edge, 💡
16. 16.来自上游的水汇聚成一大堆，远远地堆积在亚当城那里，亚当城紧邻撒烈旦；而那些向下流向阿拉巴海（即死海）的水完全断流。于是，人民就在耶利哥附近通过。the waters coming down from upstream piled up in a single heap a great way off, at; qere “from.” Adam, the town next to Zarethan; and those flowing away downstream to the Sea of the Arabah (the Dead Sea) ran out completely. So the people crossed near Jericho.💡
17. 17.担负上帝约柜的祭司站在约旦河中间的干地上，直到以色列全民都过了约旦河。The priests who bore the Ark of GOD’s Covenant stood on dry land exactly in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over on dry land, until the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan.💡