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.

¹A Jozua vstal skoro ráno, a rušali sa zo Šittíma a prišli až k Jordánu, on i všetci synovia Izraelovi, a nocovali tam, prv ako prešli cezeň.

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

²A stalo sa po troch dňoch, že prešli správcovia stredom tábora

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.

³a prikázali ľudu a riekli: Keď uvidíte truhlu smluvy Hospodina, svojho Boha, a kňazov Levitov, že ju nesú, vtedy sa i vy pohnete so svojho miesta a pojdete za ňou.

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.”

⁴Ale bude vzdialenosť medzi vami a medzi ňou okolo dva tisíce lakťov čo do miery. Nepriblížte sa k nej, aby ste znali cestu, ktorou máte ísť, lebo ste ešte nikdy neišli touto cestou.

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

⁵A Jozua povedal ľudu: Posväťte sa, lebo zajtra učiní Hospodin divy vo vašom strede.

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.

⁶A Jozua povedal kňazom: Vezmite truhlu smluvy a iďte pred ľudom. A tak vzali truhlu smluvy a išli pred ľudom.

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.

⁷A Hospodin riekol Jozuovi: Tohoto dňa ťa začnem zveličovať v očiach celého Izraela, aby vedeli, že jako som bol s Mojžišom, tak budem i s tebou.

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.’”

⁸A ty prikážeš kňazom, ktorí nesú truhlu smluvy, a povieš im: Keď prijdete až na pokraj vody Jordána, zastavíte sa a budete stáť v Jordáne.

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

⁹Potom povedal Jozua synom Izraelovým: Pristúpte sem a počujte slová Hospodina, svojho Boha!

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.

¹⁰A zase povedal Jozua: Po tomto poznáte, že je silný Bôh živý vo vašom strede a že istotne vyženie zpred vašej tvári Kananeja, Heteja, Heveja, Ferezeja, Gergezeja, Amoreja a Jebuzeja.

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.

¹¹Hľa, truhla smluvy Pána celej zeme pojde pred vami do Jordána.

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

¹²A tak teraz vezmite si dvanásť mužov z pokolení Izraelových, po jednom mužovi z každého pokolenia.

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.”

¹³A stane sa, keď spočinú stupy nôh kňazov, ktorí nesú truhlu Hospodina, Pána celej zeme, vo vode Jordána, že budú odrezané vody Jordána, vody, tečúce od hora, a budú stáť na jednej hromade.

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,

¹⁴A stalo sa, keď sa ľud pohnul zo svojich stánov, aby prešiel cez Jordán, a kňazi, ktorí niesli truhlu smluvy, pred ľudom,

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),

¹⁵a keď prišli tí, ktorí niesli truhlu, až k Jordánu, a nohy kňazov, nesúcich truhlu, zamočili sa na kraji vody (a Jordán býva preplnený, takže rozlieva vody na všetky svoje brehy, každoročne v dobe žatvy),

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.

¹⁶že sa zastavily vody, sostupujúce od hora, a stály jako jedna hromada na veľmi ďaleko pri meste Adame, ktoré leží po strane Cartána, a tie, ktoré sostupovaly k moru púšte, k Soľnému moru, odtiekli celkom a boly odrezané, a ľud prešiel na miesto naproti Jerichu.

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.

¹⁷A kňazi, ktorí niesli truhlu smluvy Hospodinovej, stáli na suchu prostred Jordána nehýbajúc sa, a celý Izrael, všetci išli po suchu, dokiaľ neprešiel cez Jordán celý národ.