¹Zvino Joshua akamuka mangwanani, vakabva Shitimi, vakasvika paJoridhani, iye navana vaIsiraeri vose; vakavatapo vasati vayambuka.

¹Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They lodged there before they passed over.

²Mazuva matatu akati apera, vatariri vakapinda napakati pemisasa,

²It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;

³vakaraira vanhu, vachiti, Kana muchiona areka yesungano yaJehovha Mwari wenyu, navapristi vaRevhi voitakura, munofanira kusimuka pamugere, nokuitevera.

³and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.

⁴Asi munofanira kusiya nzvimbo pakati penyu naiyo, inosvika makubhiti anenge zviuru zviviri; regai kuswedera kwairi, kuti muzive nzira yamunofanira kuenda nayo; nekuti mugere kumbofamba nenzira iyi.

⁴Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Don’t come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”

⁵Zvino Joshua akati kuvanhu, Zvinatsei, nekuti mangwana Jehovha uchaita zvinoshamisa pakati penyu.

⁵Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”

⁶Joshua akataura navapristi, akati, Simudzai areka yesungano, mutungamirire vanhu pakuyambuka. Ivo vakasimudza areka yesungano, vakatungamirira vanhu.

⁶Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

⁷Ipapo Jehovha akati kuna Joshua, Nhasi ndichatanga kukukudza pamberi pavaIsiraeri vose, vazive kuti ndichava newe, sezvandaisiva naMozisi.

⁷Yahweh 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.

⁸Iwe unofanira kuraira vapristi kuti vatakure areka yesungano, uchiti, Kana masvika parutivi rwemvura yaJoridhani, munofanira kumira muJoridhani.

⁸You 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.’”

⁹Zvino Joshua akati kuvana vaIsiraeri, Uyai pano, munzwe mashoko aJehovha Mwari wenyu.

⁹Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”

¹⁰Joshua akati, Muchaziva nechinhu ichi kuti Mwari mupenyu uri pakati penyu, uye kuti uchadzinga zvirokwazvo pamberi penyu vaKanani, navaHeti, navaHivhi, navaPerezi, navaGirigashi, navaAmori, navaJebhusi.

¹⁰Joshua said, “Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

¹¹Tarirai, areka yesungano yaIshe wenyika yose inokutungamirirai pakuyambuka Joridhani.

¹¹Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.

¹²Naizvozvo zvino muzvitorerei varume vane gumi navaviri pamarudzi ose avaIsiraeri, mumwe mumwe parudzi rumwe norumwe.

¹²Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

¹³Zvino kana tsoka dzavapristi vanotakura areka yaJehovha, Ishe wenyika yose dzichitsika mumvura yaJoridhani, mvura yaJoridhani ichagurwa, iyo mvura inobva kumusoro; ichamira, ikaita murwi mukuru.

¹³It shall come to pass, 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, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.”

¹⁴Zvino vanhu vakati vachibva pamatende avo, kuti vayambuke Joridhani, vapristi vaitakura areka vakatungamirira vanhu;

¹⁴It happened, 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,

¹⁵zvino vakanga vakatakura areka vakati vachisvika paJoridhani, netsoka dzavapristi vakanga vakatakura areka dzichinyikwa pamucheto wemvura (nokuti Joridhani runofashamira nhivi dzarwo dzose nguva yose yokukohwa,)

¹⁵and 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),

¹⁶mvura yakanga ichibva kumusoro ikamira, ikaita murwi mukuru, kusvikira kure-kure paAdhama, guta riri kurutivi rweZaretani; neyakanga ichiyerera kugungwa reArabha, ndiro Gungwa roMunyu, yakagurwa chose; vanhu vakayambuka pakatarisana neJeriko.

¹⁶that 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 right against Jericho.

¹⁷Vapristi vakanga vakatakura areka yesungano yaJehovha vakaramba vamire pasi pakaoma pakati paJoridhani; vaIsiraeri vose vakayambuka pavhu rakaoma kusvikira rudzi rwose rwapedza kuyambuka Joridhani.

¹⁷The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.