Giosué 3:5

5 E Giosuè disse al popolo: "Santificatevi, poiché domani l’Eterno farà delle maraviglie in mezzo a voi".

Giosué 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 ) .

Giosué 3:5 In-Context

3 e dettero quest’ordine al popolo: "Quando vedrete l’arca del patto dell’Eterno, ch’è il vostro Dio, portata dai sacerdoti levitici, partirete dal luogo ove siete accampati, e andrete dietro ad essa.
4 Però, vi sarà tra voi e l’arca la distanza d’un tratto di circa duemila cubiti; non v’accostate ad essa, affinché possiate veder bene la via per la quale dovete andare; poiché non siete ancora mai passati per questa via".
5 E Giosuè disse al popolo: "Santificatevi, poiché domani l’Eterno farà delle maraviglie in mezzo a voi".
6 Poi Giosuè parlò ai sacerdoti, dicendo: "Prendete in ispalla l’arca del patto e passate davanti al popolo". Ed essi presero in ispalla l’arca del patto e camminarono davanti al popolo.
7 E l’Eterno disse a Giosuè: "Oggi comincerò a renderti grande agli occhi di tutto Israele, affinché riconoscano che, come fui con Mosè, così sarò con te.
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