5 Il mesura mille autres coudées: c'était un torrent, que je ne pouvais traverser; car ces eaux s'étaient enflées, et il fallait les passer à la nage; c'était un torrent qu'on ne pouvait traverser.
5
He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.