Josué 3:5

5 Disse Josué também ae povo: Santificai-vos, porque amanhã o Senhor fará maravilhas no meio de vós.

Josué 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 3:5

And Joshua said unto the people
On the third day; and the thirtieth day of the mourning for Moses, Jarchi says, was the first of the three days, and that being the seventh day of the month, this must be the ninth, as it is most clear the morrow was the tenth:

sanctify yourselves;
in a ceremonial sense, by washing their bodies and their clothes, and abstaining from their wives; and in a moral sense, by acts of religion and devotion, by prayer and meditation, and the exercise of repentance and, good works: it may denote that sanctification is necessary to our passage over Jordan, or through death to the heavenly Canaan, for without holiness no man shall see the Lord:

for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you:
in their sight and presence, and for them, by dividing the waters of Jordan, that they might pass through it as on dry land; this, as Kimchi says, was the tenth of Nisan, as is plain from ( Joshua 4:19 ) .

Josué 3:5 In-Context

3 e ordenaram ao povo, dizendo: Quando virdes a arca da pacto do Senhor vosso Deus sendo levada pelos levitas sacerdotes, partireis vós também do vosso lugar, e a seguireis

4 (haja, contudo, entre vós e ela, uma distância de dois mil côvados, e não vos chegueis a ela), para que saibais o caminho pelo qual haveis de ir, porquanto por este caminho nunca dantes passastes.

5 Disse Josué também ae povo: Santificai-vos, porque amanhã o Senhor fará maravilhas no meio de vós.

6 E falou Josué aos sacerdotes, dizendo: Levantai a arca do pacto, e passai adiante do povo. Levantaram, pois, a arca do pacto, e foram andando adiante do povo.

7 Então disse o Senhor a Josué: Hoje começarei a engrandecer- te perante os olhos de todo o Israel, para que saibam que, assim como fui com Moisés, serei contigo.