1Quando toda a nação terminou de atravessar o Jordão, o SENHOR disse a Josué:2“Escolha doze homens dentre o povo, um de cada tribo,3e mande que apanhem doze pedras do meio do Jordão, do lugar onde os sacerdotes ficaram parados. Levem-nas com vocês para o local onde forem passar a noite”.4Josué convocou os doze homens que escolhera dentre os israelitas, um de cada tribo,5e lhes disse: “Passem adiante da arca do SENHOR, o seu Deus, até o meio do Jordão. Ponha cada um de vocês uma pedra nos ombros, conforme o número das tribos dos israelitas.6Elas servirão de sinal para vocês. No futuro, quando os seus filhos perguntarem: ‘Que significam essas pedras?’,7respondam que as águas do Jordão foram interrompidas diante da arca da aliança do SENHOR. Quando a arca atravessou o Jordão, as águas foram interrompidas. Essas pedras serão um memorial perpétuo para o povo de Israel”.8Os israelitas fizeram como Josué lhes havia ordenado. Apanharam doze pedras do meio do Jordão, conforme o número das tribos de Israel, como o SENHOR tinha ordenado a Josué; e as levaram ao acampamento, onde as deixaram.9Josué ergueu também doze pedras no meio* do Jordão, no local onde os sacerdotes que carregavam a arca da aliança tinham ficado. E elas estão lá até hoje.10Os sacerdotes que carregavam a arca permaneceram em pé no meio do Jordão até que o povo fez tudo o que o SENHOR ordenara a Josué, por meio de Moisés. E o povo atravessou apressadamente.11Quando todos tinham acabado de atravessar, a arca do SENHOR e os sacerdotes passaram para o outro lado, diante do povo.12Os homens das tribos de Rúben, de Gade e da metade da tribo de Manassés atravessaram preparados para lutar, à frente dos israelitas, como Moisés os tinha orientado.13Cerca de quarenta mil homens preparados para a guerra passaram perante o SENHOR, rumo à planície de Jericó.14Naquele dia o SENHOR exaltou Josué à vista de todo o Israel; e eles o respeitaram enquanto viveu, como tinham respeitado Moisés.15Então o SENHOR disse a Josué:16“Ordene aos sacerdotes que carregam a arca da aliança* que saiam do Jordão”.17E Josué lhes ordenou que saíssem.18Quando os sacerdotes que carregavam a arca da aliança do SENHOR saíram do Jordão, mal tinham posto os pés em terra seca, as águas do Jordão voltaram ao seu lugar e cobriram como antes as suas margens.19No décimo dia do primeiro mês o povo subiu do Jordão e acampou em Gilgal, na fronteira leste de Jericó.20E em Gilgal Josué ergueu as doze pedras tiradas do Jordão.21Disse ele aos israelitas: “No futuro, quando os filhos perguntarem aos seus pais: ‘Que significam essas pedras?’,22expliquem a eles: Aqui Israel atravessou o Jordão em terra seca.23Pois o SENHOR, o seu Deus, secou o Jordão perante vocês até que o tivessem atravessado. O SENHOR, o seu Deus, fez com o Jordão como fizera com o mar Vermelho, quando o secou diante de nós até que o tivéssemos atravessado.24Ele assim fez para que todos os povos da terra saibam que a mão do SENHOR é poderosa e para que vocês sempre temam o SENHOR, o seu Deus”.
English Standard Version
Twelve Memorial Stones from the Jordan
1When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,2“Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,3and command them, saying, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests’ feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.’”4Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe.5And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,6that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’7then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.”8And the people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, just as the Lord told Joshua. And they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down* there.9And Joshua set up* twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.10For the priests bearing the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste.11And when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the Lord and the priests passed over before the people.12The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them.13About 40,000 ready for war passed over before the Lord for battle, to the plains of Jericho.14On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.15And the Lord said to Joshua,16“Command the priests bearing the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan.”17So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up out of the Jordan.”18And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.19The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.20And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.21And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’22then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’23For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,24so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”*
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