那时,我吩咐你们说,耶和华你们的神已将这地赐给你们为业。你们所有的勇士都要带着兵器,在你们的弟兄以色列人前面过去。
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
等到你们弟兄在约旦河那边,也得耶和华你们神所赐给他们的地,又使他们得享平安,与你们一样,你们才可以回到我所赐给你们为业之地。
Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you.
你不要怕他们,因那为你争战的是耶和华你的神。
Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.
主耶和华阿,你已将你的大力大能显给仆人看。在天上,在地下,有什么神能像你行事,像你有大能的作为呢,
O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
你且上毗斯迦山顶去,向东,西,南,北举目观望,因为你必不能过这约旦河。
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
你却要嘱咐约书亚,勉励他,使他胆壮。因为他必在这百姓前面过去,使他们承受你所要观看之地。
But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.
吩咐百姓说,你们看见耶和华你们神的约柜,又见祭司利未人抬着,就要离开所住的地方,跟着约柜去。
And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
只是你们和约柜相离要量二千肘,不可与约柜相近,使你们知道所当走的路,因为这条路你们向来没有走过。
Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
约书亚吩咐百姓说,你们要自洁,因为明天耶和华必在你们中间行奇事。
And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
耶和华对约书亚说,从今日起,我必使你在以色列众人眼前尊大,使他们知道我怎样与摩西同在,也必照样与你同在。
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.