Josue 5
Magandang Balita Biblia
Ang Pagtutuli at ang Pagdiriwang ng Paskwa sa Gilgal
5 Nabalitaan ng mga haring Amoreo na nasa kanluran ng Jordan at ng mga haring Cananeo na nasa baybayin ng Dagat Mediteraneo na pinatuyo ni Yahweh ang Ilog Jordan nang tumawid ang bayang Israel. Dahil dito'y natakot silang lahat, at nasiraan sila ng loob sa pagdating ng mga Israelita.
2 Sinabi ni Yahweh kay Josue, “Kumuha ka ng batong matalim, gawin mong panghiwa, at tuliin mo ang mga kalalakihan ng Israel.” 3 Gayon nga ang ginawa ni Josue, tinuli niya ang mga lalaki sa isang lugar na tinatawag na Burol ng Pagtutuli. 4 Ginawa niya ito sapagkat namatay na ang lahat ng mga lalaking may sapat na gulang upang makipagdigma sa panahon ng paglalakbay noong sila'y umalis sa Egipto. 5 Ang mga iyon ay pawang tuli na, ngunit ang mga isinilang sa panahon ng paglalakbay sa ilang ay hindi pa. 6 Apatnapung(A) taon nang naglakbay sa ilang ang bayang Israel hanggang sa namatay lahat ang mga lalaking may sapat na gulang upang makipagdigma nang sila'y umalis sa Egipto. Sinuway nila si Yahweh, kaya sinabi niya sa kanila na hindi nila makikita ang mayaman at masaganang lupain na ipinangako niya sa kanilang mga ninuno. 7 Ang kanilang mga anak na lalaki na humalili sa kanila ang tinuli ni Josue, sapagkat ang mga ito'y hindi tinuli nang panahon ng paglalakbay.
8 Matapos tuliin ang lahat ng kalalakihan, nanatili sa kampo ang buong bayan hanggang sa gumaling ang mga sugat. 9 At sinabi ni Yahweh kay Josue, “Inalis ko ngayon ang kahihiyan ng pagkaalipin ninyo sa Egipto.” Kaya't ang lugar na iyon ay tinawag na Gilgal[a] magpahanggang ngayon.
10 Samantalang(B) ang mga Israelita ay nasa Gilgal sa kapatagan ng Jerico, ipinagdiwang nila ang Paskwa noong kinagabihan ng ikalabing apat na araw ng unang buwan. 11 Kinaumagahan, araw pa rin ng Paskwa, kumain sila ng mga pagkaing inani nila sa lupaing iyon: sinangag na trigo at tinapay na walang pampaalsa. 12 Hindi(C) na muling umulan pa ng manna nang makakain na sila ng mga inani nila sa lupain ng Canaan. Kaya't mula nang taóng iyon, pagkaing inaani na sa Canaan ang kanilang kinakain.
Si Josue at ang Pinuno ng Hukbo ni Yahweh
13 Minsa'y napadako si Josue malapit sa Jerico, nang biglang nagpakita sa kanya ang isang lalaking may hawak na tabak. Nilapitan ito ni Josue at tinanong, “Ikaw ba'y isang kakampi, o isang kaaway?”
14 “Hindi,” sagot ng lalaki. “Ako'y naparito bilang pinuno ng hukbo ni Yahweh.”
Nagpatirapa si Josue at sumamba. Sinabi niya, “Ano po ang ipinag-uutos ni Yahweh sa kanyang alipin?”
15 Sumagot ang pinuno ng hukbo ni Yahweh, “Alisin mo ang iyong mga sandalyas sapagkat lupang banal ang iyong tinutuntungan.” At ginawa nga ni Josue ang iniutos sa kanya.
Footnotes
- Josue 5:9 GILGAL: Sa wikang Hebreo, ang mga salitang “Gilgal” at “inalis” ay magkasintunog.
Joshua 5
World English Bible
5 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 Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel. 2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.” 3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. 4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt. 5 For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised. 6 For 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 Yahweh’s voice. 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. 7 Their 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. 8 When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
9 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal[a] to this day. 10 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. 11 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day. 12 The 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.
13 When Joshua was by Jericho, 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 enemies?”
14 He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army.”
Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
15 The prince of Yahweh’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals, for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.
Footnotes
- 5:9 “Gilgal” sounds like the Hebrew for “roll.”
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