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.

¹Huan, Josua jing khangin a thoua, Israel suante tengteng toh Sitim munakipan a kisuan ua, Jordan lui a vatung uhi: a galkah ma un huailaiah a giakuh.

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

²Huan, hichi ahi a, ni thum nungin heututen giahmun a vatawn velvel ua,

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.

³TOUPA na Pathian uh thukhun bawm leh siampute Levi chiten a jawn lai uh na muh hun chiang un na omna ua kipan kisuan unla, na jui ding uhi.

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.”

⁴Ahihhangin nou toh a kal teha tong sangnih hiam ahi ding ahi: naih kei unla, huchiin na paina ding uh lampi na thei thei ding uhi; hiai lampi lahtuma lamin na tawn nai ngal kei ua, chiin mipite thu a pia uhi.

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

⁵Huchiin Josuain mipite kiangah, Kihihsiangthou un, jingchianga Toupan na lak ua thillamdang mahmah hih sin ahi, a chi ua.

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.

⁶Huan, Josuain siampute kiangah, Thukhun bawm jawng unla, mipite maah galkah un, chiin a gen a. Huchiin thukhun bawm a jawng ua, mipite ma a paita uhi.

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.

⁷Huan, TOUPAN Josua kiangah, Mosi kianga ka om bangin na kiangah leng ka om ding chih a theih theihna ding un tuniin Israelte tengteng mitmuhin ka honpahtawi pan sin hi.

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.’”

⁸Huan, thukhun bawm jawng siampute, Jordan lui gei na tun hun chiang un, Jordan ah ding thek un, chiin thu piain, a chi a.

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

⁹Huan, Josuain Israel suante kiangah Hongpai unla, TOUPA na Pathian uh thu hongngaikhia un, a chi a.

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.

¹⁰Huan, Josuain, Hiaiah Pathian hing na lak uah a oma, na ma uah Kanan-te, Hitte Hiv-te, Periz-te, Girgas-te, Amor-te, Jebus-te a delhkhe ngeingei sin ahi chih na thei ding uh.

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.

¹¹Ngai un, lei pumpi Toupa thukhun bawmin na ma uah Jordan lui a kan hi.

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

¹²Huchiin Israel namte laka mi sawm leh nih nam chih sikin mi khat jel telkhia un.

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.”

¹³Huan, hichi ahi dinga, TOUPA lei pumpi Toupa bawm jawng siampute khepek Jordan tuia a kingak takin, Jordan tui, saklam akipana tui hongluangte a kitat dinga; huchiin a hongkiching venvon ding, a chi a.

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,

¹⁴Huan, hichi ahi a, mipite Jordan lui kan dinga a puanin ua kipana a pawt lai un, thukhun bawm jawng siampute mipite maah a pai ua;

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),

¹⁵Bawm jawngte Jordan lui a vatung ua, bawm jawng siampute khein tui gei a sik takin, (buh lak sung teng Jordan lui a kuang tengteng ah a let gige naka, )

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.

¹⁶Saklam akipana tui hongluang khe lai a khawlta a, gamla kuam taka Zarethan gam china Adam khua ah a hongkiching venvon a: huan, Araba tuipi, Tuipi Al lama luang suk lai a kitat geiha: huchiin mipite Jeriko kho jawn takah a galkahta uhi.Huan, TOUPA thukhun bawm jawng siampute Jordan lui laiah, lei hulah a ding ua, huan, mipite tengtengin Jordan lui a galkah vek uhi.

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.

¹⁷Huan, TOUPA thukhun bawm jawng siampute Jordan lui laiah, lei hulah a ding ua, huan, mipite tengtengin Jordan lui a galkah vek uhi.