¹It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

¹迦南人聞風喪膽在約旦河西，亞摩利人的眾王和靠近海邊迦南人的眾王，聽見耶和華怎樣使約旦河的水在以色列人面前乾了，直到他們都過河去，他們都心裡驚怕，因以色列人的緣故，勇氣全失。

²At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.”

²以色列在吉甲行割禮那時，耶和華對約書亞說：“你要製造火石刀，第二次給以色列人行割禮。”

³Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

³約書亞就製造了火石刀，在包皮山那裡給以色列人行了割禮。

⁴This is the reason Joshua circumcised: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

⁴約書亞給以色列人行割禮的原因是這樣：所有從埃及出來的人民，就是所有能作戰的男丁，出埃及以後，都死在曠野的路上。

⁵For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

⁵因為所有從埃及出來的人民都受過割禮；唯有從埃及出來以後，所有在曠野的路上出生的人民，都沒有受過割禮。

⁶For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁶以色列人在曠野走了四十年，直到全國的人，就是從埃及出來能作戰的男丁，都滅盡了，因為他們不聽耶和華的話；耶和華曾經向他們起誓，必不容許他們看見耶和華向他們列祖起誓要賜給我們的地，就是流奶與蜜的地。

⁷Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.

⁷他們的子孫，就是耶和華興起來代替他們的，約書亞給他們行了割禮；這些人是未受割禮的人，因為他們在路上沒有受過割禮。

⁸It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation, that they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.

⁸全國的人受了割禮之後，都住在營中自己的地方，直到痊愈。

⁹Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, “Gilgal” sounds like the Hebrew for “roll.” to this day.

⁹耶和華對約書亞說：“我今日把埃及的恥辱從你們身上輥去了。”因此，那地方名叫吉甲（“吉甲”意即“輥”），直到今日。

¹⁰The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

¹⁰以色列人守逾越節以色列人在吉甲安營；正月十四日晚上，他們在耶利哥的平原守逾越節。

¹¹They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.

¹¹逾越節後次日，他們吃了那地的出產；就在那一天，吃了無酵餅和烘的穀物。

¹²The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

¹²嗎哪停止降下他們吃了那地的出產之後，第二天嗎哪就停止降下；以色列人不再有嗎哪了；那一年他們卻吃迦南地的出產。

¹³It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”

¹³約書亞與耶和華軍隊的元帥約書亞走近耶利哥的時候，抬頭觀看，看見一個人站在他對面，手裡拿著拔出來的刀。約書亞走到他那裡，對他說：“你是我們的人，還是我們的仇敵呢？”

¹⁴He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army.” Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”

¹⁴那人回答：“不是的；我現在來是作耶和華軍隊的元帥。”約書亞就臉伏在地，向他下拜，對他說：“我主有甚麼事要吩咐僕人呢？”

¹⁵The prince of Yahweh’s army said to Joshua, “Take your shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.

¹⁵耶和華軍隊的元帥對約書亞說：“把你腳上的鞋脫下來，因為你站的地方是聖地。”約書亞就照著行了。