Liber Iosue, 5

1. Postquam ergo audierunt om nes reges Amorraeorum, qui ha bitabant trans Iordanem ad occidentalem plagam, et cuncti reges Chanaan, qui propinqua possidebant Magno mari loca, quod siccasset Dominus fluenta Iordanis coram filiis Israel, donec transirent, dissolutum est cor eorum, et non remansit in eis spiritus coram filiis Israel.

1. When all the kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites that were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no longer any spirit in them, because of the people of Israel.

2. Eo tempore ait Dominus ad Iosue: “Fac tibi cultros lapideos et circumcide iterum secundo filios Israel”.

2. At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the people of Israel again the second time."

3. Fecit, quod iusserat Dominus, et circumcidit filios Israel in colle Praeputiorum.

3. So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the people of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

4. Haec autem causa est secundae circumcisionis: omnis populus, qui egressus est ex Aegypto, generis masculini, universi bellatores viri mortui sunt in deserto in via;

4. And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.

5. qui omnes circumcisi erant. Populus autem, qui natus est in deserto, incircumcisus fuit.

5. Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people that were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

6. Per quadraginta enim annos ambulabant filii Israel, donec consumerentur omnes homines bellatores, qui non audierant vocem Domini, et quibus iuraverat, ut non ostenderet eis terram, super qua iuraverat patribus eorum, ut daret illis terram lacte et melle manantem.

6. For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, perished, because they did not hearken to the voice of the LORD; to them the LORD swore that he would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

7. Horum filii in locum successerunt patrum et circumcisi sunt a Iosue, quia, sicut nati fuerant, in praeputio erant, nec eos in via aliquis circumciderat.

7. So it was their children, whom he raised up in their stead, that Joshua circumcised; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

8. Postquam autem omnes circumcisi sunt, manserunt in eodem castrorum loco, donec sanarentur.

8. When the circumcising of all the nation was done, they remained in their places in the camp till they were healed.

9. Dixitque Dominus ad Iosue: “Hodie abstuli opprobrium Aegypti a vobis”. Vocatumque est nomen loci illius Galgala usque in praesentem diem.

9. And the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.

10. Manseruntque filii Israel in Galgalis et fecerunt Pascha quarta decima die mensis ad vesperum in campestribus Iericho;

10. While the people of Israel were encamped in Gilgal they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

11. et comederunt de frugibus terrae a die altero, azymos panes et polentam hoc ipso die.

11. And on the morrow after the passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.

12. Defecitque manna a die sequenti, postquam comederunt de frugibus terrae, nec usi sunt ultra cibo illo filii Israel, sed comederunt de frugibus terrae Chanaan in anno illo.

12. And the manna ceased on the morrow, when they ate of the produce of the land; and the people of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

13. Cum autem esset Iosue in agro urbis Iericho, levavit oculos et vidit virum stantem contra se et evaginatum tenentem gladium; perrexitque ad eum et ait: “Noster es an adversariorum?”.

13. When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood before him with his drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"

14. Qui respondit: “Nequaquam, sed sum princeps exercitus Domini et nunc veni”.

14. And he said, "No; but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, "What does my lord bid his servant?"

15. Cecidit Iosue pronus in terram et adorans ait: “Quid Dominus meus loquitur ad servum suum?”.

15. And the commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so.

16. Et dixit princeps exercitus Domini ad Iosue: “Solve calceamentum de pedibus tuis; locus enim, in quo stas, sanctus est”. Fecitque Iosue, ut sibi fuerat imperatum.

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