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Ĩt Tamáu Tễ Dỡq Crỗng Yôr-dan Táq Tếc.

¹Toâq nheq tữh cũai I-sarel yang vớt crỗng Yôr-dan nheq chơ, Yiang Sursĩ ớn Yô-sũa neq: ²“Cóq mới rưoh samiang muoi chít la bar náq, muoi tỗp muoi noaq, ³cớp ớn alới acŏ́q tamáu muoi chít la bar cốc tễ crỗng Yôr-dan; ĩt bân ntốq tỗp tễng rit sang tayứng, chơ dững dŏq bân ntốq anhia ỡt dỡ tâng sadâu nâi.”
⁴Chơ Yô-sũa arô cũai muoi chít la bar náq án khoiq rưoh, ⁵cớp atỡng alới neq: “Cóq anhia pỡq yáng moat Hĩp Yiang Sursĩ la Ncháu anhia, cớp sễng chu mpứng dĩ crỗng Yôr-dan. Chơ cóq anhia acŏ́q dỗl tamáu muoi noaq muoi cốc, yỗn dũ muoi chít la bar tỗp cũai I-sarel. ⁶Tamáu nâi dŏq cỡt tếc yỗn anhia. Nỡ‑ra toâq máh con châu anhia blớh neq: ‘Tamáu nâi cỡt tếc ntrớu?’, ⁷cóq anhia ta‑ỡi alới neq: ‘Tamáu nâi ĩt tễ crỗng Yôr-dan bo tỗp tễng rit sang crang Hĩp Parnai Parkhán tayáh clong crỗng Yôr-dan, chơ dỡq ki cỡt sarễt cŏ́h. Ngkíq tamáu nâi cỡt tếc dŏq catoaih tỗp I-sarel yỗn sanhữ níc tễ máh ranáq nâi.’”
⁸Ngkíq cũai I-sarel táq puai ariang Yô-sũa ớn. Cớp alới acŏ́q dỗl tamáu muoi chít la bar cốc tễ mpứng dĩ crỗng Yôr-dan, muoi tỗp muoi cốc yỗn dũ tỗp cũai I-sarel, machớng Yiang Sursĩ khoiq atỡng Yô-sũa chơ. Alới dỗl amut chu ntốq alới ỡt dỡ, cớp achúh dŏq tâng ntốq ki. ⁹Cớp Yô-sũa ayứng tamáu muoi chít la bar cốc canŏ́h ễn bân ntốq máh cũai tễng rit sang tayứng bo alới crang Hĩp Parnai Parkhán tâng mpứng dĩ crỗng Yôr-dan. Tamáu ki noâng toau sanua.
¹⁰Cũai tễng rit sang ca crang Hĩp ỡt tayứng níc tâng mpứng dĩ crỗng Yôr-dan toau dũ ramứh moâm nheq ariang Yiang Sursĩ khoiq ớn na Yô-sũa. Parnai ki Môi-se khoiq patâp dŏq chóq Yô-sũa chơ. Máh cũai proai tayáh chái yang crỗng. ¹¹Toâq máh cũai proai tayáh vớt nheq chơ, Hĩp Yiang Sursĩ cớp cũai tễng rit sang tayáh pỡq pha yáng moat máh cũai proai. ¹²Ma tỗp Ruben, tỗp Cát, cớp tadĩ tỗp Ma-nasê yống crơng choac pỡq nhũang máh cũai I-sarel canŏ́h, machớng Môi-se khoiq atỡng alới chơ. ¹³Nheq tữh tỗp samiang yáng moat Yiang Sursĩ mán bữn pỗn chít ngin náq thrũan ễ mut chíl. Alới yang dỡq pỡq chu cutễq tapín cheq vil Yê-ri-cô.
¹⁴Tâng tangái ki Yiang Sursĩ táq yỗn cũai I-sarel achưng alư Yô-sũa la cũai sốt lứq. Cớp alới yám noap Yô-sũa toau sốt dỡi tamoong án, machớng tỗp alới khoiq yám noap Môi-se chơ.
¹⁵Chơ Yiang Sursĩ atỡng Yô-sũa ễn neq: ¹⁶“Sanua cóq mới ớn tỗp crang Hĩp Parnai Parkhán chỗn tễ crỗng Yôr-dan.”
¹⁷Yô-sũa táq puai machớng Yiang Sursĩ atỡng án. ¹⁸Toâq máh cũai tễng rit sang chỗn poon pứh, chơ crỗng ki hoi poân loah pứh ariang tễ tiaq.
¹⁹Máh cũai proai chỗn vớt tễ crỗng Yôr-dan la tangái muoi chít, casâi muoi. Chơ alới pỡq ỡt cheq vil Kil-cal yáng angia mandang loŏh choâng cớp vil Yê-ri-cô. ²⁰Yô-sũa ayứng tamáu muoi chít la bar cốc alới dỗl achỗn tễ crỗng Yôr-dan dŏq bân ntốq ki. ²¹Cớp án atỡng cũai I-sarel neq: “Chumát, toâq con châu anhia blớh tễ tamáu nâi cỡt tếc ntrớu, ²²cóq anhia atỡng alới neq: ‘Máh cũai I-sarel pỡq tâng cutễq khỗ bo alới tayáh yang crỗng Yôr-dan.’ ²³Cớp atỡng alới neq hỡ: ‘Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu tỗp anhia, khoiq táq yỗn crỗng Yôr-dan cỡt sarễt choâng moat tỗp hái dŏq nheq tữh hái bữn tayáh vớt nheq.’ Nâi la machớng Ncháu khoiq táq tễ nhũang yỗn dỡq mưt Cusâu cỡt khỗ yỗn tỗp hái bữn pỡq. ²⁴Cỗ tễ ranáq nâi, nheq tữh cũai tâng cốc cutễq nâi têq dáng samoât lứq Yiang Sursĩ bữn chớc toâr lứq, cớp yỗn tỗp anhia yám noap Yiang Sursĩ, la Ncháu anhia, tái-mantái níc.”

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The Memorial Stones

¹And it came to pass, when all the people had completely crossed ⚓over the Jordan, that the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying: ²⚓“Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from every tribe, ³and command them, saying, ‘Take for yourselves twelve stones from here, out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where ⚓the priests’ feet stood firm. You shall carry them over with you and leave them in ⚓the lodging place where you lodge tonight.’ ”
⁴Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the children of Israel, one man from every tribe; ⁵and Joshua said to them: “Cross over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, ⁶that this may be ⚓a sign among you ⚓when your children ask in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ ⁷Then you shall answer them that ⚓the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones shall be for ⚓a memorial to the children of Israel forever.”
⁸And the children of Israel did so, just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. ⁹Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
¹⁰So the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the Lord had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and crossed over. ¹¹Then it came to pass, when all the people had completely crossed over, that the ⚓ark of the Lord and the priests crossed over in the presence of the people. ¹²And ⚓the men of Reuben, the men of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had spoken to them. ¹³About forty thousand prepared for war crossed over before the Lord for battle, to the plains of Jericho. ¹⁴On that day the Lord⚓exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life.
¹⁵Then the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, ¹⁶“Command the priests who bear ⚓the ark of the Testimony to come up from the Jordan.” ¹⁷Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.” ¹⁸And it came to pass, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet touched the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place ⚓and overflowed all its banks as before.
¹⁹Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped ⚓in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. ²⁰And ⚓those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. ²¹Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: ⚓“When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’ ²²then you shall let your children know, saying, ⚓‘Israel crossed over this Jordan on ⚓dry land’; ²³for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, ⚓which He dried up before us until we had crossed over, ²⁴⚓that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is⚓mighty, that you may ⚓fear the Lord your God forever.”