Juízes 11
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Judges 11
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Era então Jefté, o gileadita, homem valoroso, porém filho duma prostituta; Gileade era o pai dele. | Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father. |
Também a mulher de Gileade lhe deu filhos; quando os filhos desta eram já grandes, expulsaram a Jefté, e lhe disseram: Não herdarás na casa de nosso pai, porque és filho de outra mulher. | And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman. |
Então Jefté fugiu de diante de seus irmãos, e habitou na terra de Tobe; e homens levianos juntaram-se a Jefté, e saiam com ele. | So Jephthah went in flight from his brothers and was living in the land of Tob, where a number of good-for-nothing men, joining Jephthah, went out with him on his undertakings. |
Passado algum tempo, os amonitas fizeram guerra a Israel. | Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel. |
E, estando eles a guerrear contra Israel, foram os anciãos de Gileade para trazer Jefté da terra de Tobe, | And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob; |
e lhe disseram: Vem, sê o nosso chefe, para que combatamos contra os amonitas. | And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon. |
Jefté, porém, perguntou aos anciãos de Gileade: Porventura não me odiastes, e não me expulsastes da casa de meu pai? por que, pois, agora viestes a mim, quando estais em aperto? | But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble? |
Responderam-lhe os anciãos de Gileade: É por isso que tornamos a ti agora, para que venhas conosco, e combatas contra os amonitas, e nos sejas por chefe sobre todos os habitantes de Gileade. | And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so go with us and make war against the children of Ammon, and we will make you our head over all the people of Gilead. |
Então Jefté disse aos anciãos de Gileade: Se me fizerdes voltar para combater contra os amonitas, e o Senhor mos entregar diante de mim, então serei eu o vosso chefe. | Then Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, If you take me back to make war against the children of Ammon, and if with the help of the Lord I overcome them, will you make me your head? |
Responderam os anciãos de Gileade a Jefté: O Senhor será testemunha entre nós de que faremos conforme a tua palavra. | And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say. |
Assim Jefté foi com os anciãos de Gileade, e o povo o pôs por cabeça e chefe sobre si; e Jefté falou todas as suas palavras perante o Senhor em Mizpá. | So Jephthah went with the responsible men of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah said all these things before the Lord in Mizpah. |
Depois Jefté enviou mensageiros ao rei dos amonitas, para lhe dizerem: Que há entre mim e ti, que vieste a mim para guerrear contra a minha terra? | Then Jephthah sent men to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you against me that you have come to make war against my land? |
Respondeu o rei dos amonitas aos mensageiros de Jefté: É porque Israel, quando subiu do Egito, tomou a minha terra, desde o Arnom até o Jaboque e o Jordão; restitui-me, pois, agora essas terras em paz. | And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly. |
Jefté, porém, tornou a enviar mensageiros ao rei dos amonitas, | And Jephthah sent again to the king of the children of Ammon, |
dizendo-lhe: Assim diz Jefté: Israel não tomou a terra de Moabe, nem a terra dos amonitas; | And said to him, This is the word of Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the children of Ammon; |
mas quando Israel subiu do Egito, andou pelo deserto até o Mar Vermelho, e depois chegou a Cades; | But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh; |
dali enviou mensageiros ao rei de Edom, a dizer-lhe: Rogo-te que me deixes passar pela tua terra. Mas o rei de Edom não lhe deu ouvidos. Então enviou ao rei de Moabe, o qual também não consentiu; e assim Israel ficou em Cades. | Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Edom did not give ear to them. And in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he would not; so Israel went on living in Kadesh. |
Depois andou pelo deserto e rodeou a terra de Edom e a terra de Moabe, e veio pelo lado oriental da terra de Moabe, e acampou além do Arnom; porém não entrou no território de Moabe, pois o Arnom era o limite de Moabe. | Then he went on through the waste land and round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon; they did not come inside the limit of Moab, for the Arnon was the limit of Moab. |
E Israel enviou mensageiros a Siom, rei dos amorreus, rei de Hesbom, e disse-lhe: Rogo-te que nos deixes passar pela tua terra até o meu lugar. | And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let me now go through your land to my place. |
Siom, porém, não se fiou de Israel para o deixar passar pelo seu território; pelo contrário, ajuntando todo o seu povo, acampou em Jaza e combateu contra Israel. | But Sihon would not give way and let Israel go through his land; and Sihon got together all his people, and put his army in position in Jahaz, and made war on Israel. |
E o Senhor Deus de Israel entregou Siom com todo o seu povo na mão de Israel, que os feriu e se apoderou de toda a terra dos amorreus que habitavam naquela região. | And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them; so all the land of the Amorites, the people of that land, became Israel's. |
Apoderou-se de todo o território dos amorreus, desde o Arnom até o Jaboque, e desde o deserto até o Jordão. | All the limit of the Amorites was theirs, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and from the waste land even to Jordan. |
Assim o Senhor Deus de Israel desapossou os amorreus de diante do seu povo de Israel; e possuirias tu esse território? | So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has taken away their land from the Amorites and given it to his people Israel; are you then to have it? |
Não possuirias tu o território daquele que Quemós, teu deus, desapossasse de diante de ti? assim possuiremos nós o território de todos quantos o Senhor nosso Deus desapossar de diante de nós. | Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us. |
Agora, és tu melhor do que Balaque, filho de Zipor, rei de Moabe? ousou ele jamais contender com Israel, ou lhe mover guerra? | What! are you any better than Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever take up a cause against Israel or make war against them? |
Enquanto Israel habitou trezentos anos em Hesbom e nas suas vilas, em Aroer e nas suas vilas em todas as cidades que estão ao longo do Arnom, por que não as recuperaste naquele tempo? | While Israel was living in Heshbon and its daughter-towns and in Aroer and its daughter-towns and in all the towns which are by the side of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not get them back at that time? |
Não fui eu que pequei contra ti; és tu, porém, que usas de injustiça para comigo, fazendo-me guerra. O Senhor, que é juiz, julgue hoje entre os filhos de Israel e os amonitas. | So I have done no wrong against you, but you are doing wrong to me in fighting against me: may the Lord, who is Judge this day, be judge between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon. |
Contudo o rei dos amonitas não deu ouvidos à mensagem que Jefté lhe enviou. | The king of the children of Ammon, however, did not give ear to the words which Jephthah sent to him. |
Então o Espírito do Senhor veio sobre Jefté, de modo que ele passou por Gileade e Manassés, e chegando a Mizpá de Gileade, dali foi ao encontro dos amonitas. | Then the spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, and he went through Gilead and Manasseh, and came to Mizpeh of Gilead; and from Mizpeh of Gilead he went over to the children of Ammon. |
E Jefté fez um voto ao Senhor, dizendo: Se tu me entregares na mão os amonitas, | And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hands, |
qualquer que, saindo da porta de minha casa, me vier ao encontro, quando eu, vitorioso, voltar dos amonitas, esse será do Senhor; eu o oferecerei em holocausto. | Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the children of Ammon, will be the Lord's and I will give him as a burned offering. |
Assim Jefté foi ao encontro dos amonitas, a combater contra eles; e o Senhor lhos entregou na mão. | So Jephthah went over to the children of Ammon to make war on them; and the Lord gave them into his hands. |
E Jefté os feriu com grande mortandade, desde Aroer até chegar a Minite, vinte cidades, e até Abel-Queramim. Assim foram subjugados os amonitas pelos filhos de Israel. | And he made an attack on them from Aroer all the way to Minnith, overrunning twenty towns, as far as Abel-cheramim, and put great numbers to the sword. So the children of Ammon were crushed before the children of Israel. |
Quando Jefté chegou a Mizpá, à sua casa, eis que a sua filha lhe saiu ao encontro com adufes e com danças; e era ela a filha única; além dela não tinha outro filho nem filha. | Then Jephthah came back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way with music and with dances; she was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters. |
Logo que ele a viu, rasgou as suas vestes, e disse: Ai de mim, filha minha! muito me abateste; és tu a causa da minha desgraça! pois eu fiz, um voto ao Senhor, e não posso voltar atrás. | And when he saw her he was overcome with grief, and said, Ah! my daughter! I am crushed with sorrow, and it is you who are the chief cause of my trouble; for I have made an oath to the Lord and I may not take it back. |
Ela lhe respondeu: Meu pai, se fizeste um voto ao Senhor, faze de mim conforme o teu voto, pois o Senhor te vingou dos teus inimigos, os filhos de Amom. | And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have said; for the Lord has sent a full reward on your haters, on the children of Ammon. |
Disse mais a seu pai: Concede-me somente isto: deixa-me por dois meses para que eu vá, e desça pelos montes, chorando a minha virgindade com as minhas companheiras. | Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate. |
Disse ele: Vai. E deixou-a ir por dois meses; então ela se foi com as suas companheiras, e chorou a sua virgindade pelos montes. | And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate. |
E sucedeu que, ao fim dos dois meses, tornou ela para seu pai, o qual cumpriu nela o voto que tinha feito; e ela não tinha conhecido varão. Daí veio o costume em Israel, | And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel, |
de irem as filhas de Israel de ano em ano lamentar por quatro dias a filha de Jefté, o gileadita. Isso não é | For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year. |