Joshua 4

¹ After Israel don cross the Jordan, God tell Joshua say:

² Tell one man from each of the twelve tribes make dem pick up a rock from where the priests dey stand.

³ Then tell the men make dem set up the rocks as memorial for where una go camp tonight.

⁴ Naso Joshua choose twelve men; and he call them together

⁵ and say: Make una go middle of the riverbed where the Covenant Box dey, and pick up a large rock. Carry am for shoulder to our camp. Na twelve una be, so there go be one rock for each tribe.

⁶ Later for future una children go ask say, “Why these rocks dey here?”

⁷ Then una fit tell them how the water stop to dey flow when una dey carry Covenant Box go other side of the river. These rocks go always remind our people of wetin happen for here today.

⁸ The men follow the instructions wey God don give Joshua. Dem pick up twelve rocks, one for each tribe, and dem carry them to the camp, where dem put them down.

⁹ Joshua set up a memorial next to the place where the priests dey stand. Na twelve large rocks e take make the memorial, and e still dey there for the middle of the river.

¹⁰ The priests stand for middle of the Jordan until the people don do everything wey God don command Joshua and Moses. The people quickly run go other side of the river.

¹¹ When all of them don reach other side of the river, the priests wey dey with God Covenant Box begin dey go for front of other people.

¹² The army get ready for battle and dem cross the Jordan with every other person. Dem march pass the Covenant Box quickly and enter the desert wey dey near Jericho.

¹³ Forty thousand soldier from tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh lead the way, as Moses don command.

¹⁴ Wetin God do that day make people of Israel believe say Joshua na great man. Dem honor him for all him life, as dem don honor Moses.

¹⁵ God con tell Joshua

¹⁶ Make he command the priests wey dey carry the Covenant Box make dem come out of the Jordan.

¹⁷ Joshua do as God don talk

¹⁸ And when the priests reach the riverside, the river begin dey flow again, and water full the riverside.

¹⁹ The people cross the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and dem camp for Gilgal, east of Jericho.

²⁰ For there, Joshua set up the twelve rocks wey dem take from the Jordan.

²¹ He tell the people of Israel say, “For future, when una children ask una wetin these stones mean,

²² Una go tell them about the time when Israel cross the Jordan for dry ground.

²³ Tell them say the LORD una God dry up the water wey dey Jordan until una don cross, just as he don dry up the Red Sea for us.

²⁴ Because of this, every person on top earth go know how great God power be, and una go honor the LORD una God for ever.