Judges 21
1 Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.
Ora tinham jurado os homens d'Israel em Mispah, dizendo: Nenhum de nós dará sua filha por mulher aos benjamitas.
2 And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.
Veiu pois o povo a Beth-el, e ali ficaram até á tarde diante de Deus: e levantaram a sua voz, e prantearam com grande pranto,
3 And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel?
E disseram: Ah! Senhor Deus d'Israel, porque succedeu isto em Israel, que hoje falte uma tribu em Israel?
4 Then on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings.
E succedeu que, no dia seguinte, o povo pela manhã se levantou, e edificou ali um altar; e offereceram holocaustos e offertas pacificas.
5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death.
E disseram os filhos d'Israel: Quem de todas as tribus d'Israel não subiu ao ajuntamento ao Senhor? Porque se tinha feito um grande juramento ácerca dos que não viessem ao Senhor a Mispah, dizendo: Morrerá certamente.
6 And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.
E arrependeram-se os filhos d'Israel ácerca de Benjamin, seu irmão, e disseram: Cortada é hoje d'Israel uma tribu.
7 What are we to do about wives for those who are still living? For we have taken an oath by the Lord that we will not give them our daughters for wives.
Que faremos, ácerca de mulheres, com os que ficaram de resto, pois nós temos jurado pelo Senhor que nenhuma de nossas filhas lhes dariamos por mulheres?
8 And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord? And it was seen that no one had come from Jabesh-gilead to the meeting.
E disseram: Ha alguma das tribus d'Israel que não subisse ao Senhor a Mispah? E eis que ninguem de Jabes de Gilead viera ao arraial, á congregação.
9 For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present.
Porquanto o povo se contou: e eis que nenhum dos moradores de Jabes de Gilead se achou ali.
10 So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.
Então o ajuntamento enviou lá doze mil homens dos mais valentes, e lhes ordenou, dizendo: Ide, e ao fio da espada feri aos moradores de Jabes de Gilead, e ás mulheres e aos meninos.
11 And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.
Porém isto é o que haveis de fazer: A todo o macho e a toda a mulher que se houver deitado com um homem totalmente destruireis.
12 Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
E acharam entre os moradores de Jabes de Gilead quatrocentas moças virgens, que não conheceram homem deitando-se com macho: e as trouxeram ao arraial, a Silo, que está na terra de Canaan.
13 And all the meeting sent to the men of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, offering them peace.
Então todo o ajuntamento enviou, e fallou aos filhos de Benjamin, que estavam na penha de Rimmon, e lhes proclamou a paz.
14 Then Benjamin came back; and they gave them the women whom they had kept from death among the women of Jabesh-gilead: but still there were not enough for them.
E ao mesmo tempo voltaram os benjamitas; e deram-lhes as mulheres que haviam guardado com vida, das mulheres de Jabes de Gilead: porém estas ainda lhes não bastaram.
15 And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.
Então o povo se arrependeu por causa de Benjamin: porquanto o Senhor tinha feito abertura nas tribus d'Israel.
16 Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?
E disseram os anciãos do ajuntamento: Que faremos ácerca de mulheres para os que ficaram de resto? pois as mulheres são destruidas de Benjamin.
17 And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,
Disseram mais: A herança dos que ficaram de resto é de Benjamin, e nenhuma tribu de Israel deve ser destruida.
18 Seeing that we may not give them our daughters as wives? For the children of Israel had taken an oath, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
Porém nós não lhes poderemos dar mulheres de nossas filhas, porque os filhos d'Israel juraram, dizendo: Maldito aquelle que der mulher aos benjamitas.
19 And they said, See, every year there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh, which is to the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway which goes up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Então disseram: Eis que de anno em anno ha solemnidade do Senhor em Silo, que se celebra para o norte de Beth-el, da banda do nascente do sol, pelo caminho alto que sobe de Beth-el a Sichem, e para o sul de Lebona.
20 And they said to the men of Benjamin, Go into the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,
E mandaram aos filhos de Benjamin, dizendo: Ide, e emboscae-vos nas vinhas,
21 And watching; and if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then come from the vine-gardens and take a wife for every one of you from among the daughters of Shiloh, and go back to the land of Benjamin.
E olhae, e eis ahi, saindo as filhas de Silo a dançar em ranchos, sahi vós das vinhas, e arrebatae-vos cada um sua mulher das filhas de Silo, e ide-vos á terra de Benjamin.
22 And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.
E será que, quando seus paes ou seus irmãos vierem a litigar comnosco, nós lhes diremos: Por amor de nós, tende compaixão d'elles, pois n'esta guerra não tomámos mulheres para cada um d'elles: porque não lh'as déstes vós, para que agora ficasseis culpados?
23 So the men of Benjamin did this, and got wives for themselves for every one of their number, taking them away by force from the dance; then they went back to their heritage, building up their towns and living in them.
E os filhos de Benjamin o fizeram assim, e levaram mulheres conforme ao numero d'elles, das que arrebatavam dos ranchos que dançavam: e foram-se, e voltaram á sua herança, e reedificaram as cidades, e habitaram n'ellas.
24 Then the children of Israel went away from there, every man to his tribe and his family, every man went back to his heritage.
Tambem os filhos d'Israel partiram então d'ali, cada um para a sua tribu e para a sua geração: e sairam d'ali, cada um para a sua herança.
25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
N'aquelles dias não havia rei em Israel: porém cada um fazia o que parecia recto aos seus olhos.
