Deuteronômio 9

1 Ouve, Israel: tu estás hoje para passar o Jordão, para entrar a possuir nações mais numerosas e mais fortes que tu, cidades grandes e fortificadas até o céu,

Hear, Israel; you are about to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, and cities that are great and fortified up to heaven,

2 Um povo grande e alto, filhos de gigantes, dos quais tens tu conhecimento, e ouviste dizer: Quem resistirá diante dos filhos do gigante?

a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard people say, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'

3 Sabe, pois, hoje que o SENHOR teu Deus é o que passa diante de ti, fogo consumidor, que os destruirá e humilhará diante de ti: e tu os expulsarás, e os destruirás logo, como o SENHOR te disse.

Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you like a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so will you drive them out and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has said to you.

4 Não digas em teu coração quando o SENHOR teu Deus os haverá expulsado de diante de ti, dizendo: Por minha justiça me pôs o SENHOR a possuir esta terra; pois pela impiedade destas nações o SENHOR as expulsa de diante de ti.

Do not say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, 'It was because of my righteousness that Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land,' for it was because of the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh is driving them out from before you.

5 Não por tua justiça, nem pela retidão de teu coração entras a possuir a terra deles; mas pela impiedade destas nações o SENHOR teu Deus as expulsa de diante de ti, e para confirmar a palavra que o SENHOR jurou a teus pais Abraão, Isaque, e Jacó.

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that your God is driving them out from before you, and so that he may make come true the word that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 Portanto, sabe que não por tua justiça o SENHOR teu Deus te dá esta boa terra para possuí-la; que povo duro de cerviz és tu.

Know therefore, that Yahweh your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.

7 Lembra-te, não te esqueças que provocaste a ira ao SENHOR teu Deus no deserto: desde o dia que saíste da terra do Egito, até que entrastes neste lugar, fostes rebeldes ao SENHOR.

Remember and do not forget how you provoked Yahweh your God to anger in the wilderness; from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

8 E em Horebe provocastes à ira ao SENHOR, e irou-se o SENHOR contra vós para destruir-vos.

Also at Horeb you provoked Yahweh to anger, and Yahweh was angry enough with you to destroy you.

9 Quando eu subi ao monte para receber as tábuas de pedra, as tábuas do pacto que o SENHOR fez convosco, estive então no monte quarenta dias e quarenta noites, sem comer pão nem beber água:

When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh made with you, I stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water.

10 E deu-me o SENHOR as duas tábuas de pedra escritas com o dedo de Deus; e nelas estava escrito conforme todas as palavras que vos falou o SENHOR no monte do meio do fogo, no dia da assembleia.

Yahweh gave to me the two tablets of stone written with his finger; on them was written everything just like all the words that Yahweh announced to you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire on the day of the assembly.

11 E foi ao fim dos quarenta dias e quarenta noites, que o SENHOR me deu as duas tábuas de pedra, as tábuas do pacto.

It happened at the end of those forty days and forty nights that Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

12 E disse-me o SENHOR: Levanta-te, desce logo daqui; que teu povo que tiraste do Egito se corrompeu: logo se apartaram do caminho que eu lhes mandei: fizeram para si uma efígie de fundição.

Yahweh said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the path that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a cast figure.'

13 E falou-me o SENHOR, dizendo: Vi esse povo, e eis que ele é povo duro de cerviz:

Furthermore, Yahweh spoke to me and said, 'I have seen this people; they are a stubborn people.

14 Deixa-me que os destrua, e apague seu nome de debaixo do céu; que eu te porei sobre gente forte e muito mais que eles.

Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven, and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.'

15 E voltei e desci do monte, o qual ardia em fogo, com as tábuas do pacto em minhas duas mãos.

So I turned around and came down the mountain, and the mountain was burning. The two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

16 E olhei, e eis que havíeis pecado contra o SENHOR vosso Deus: Havíeis feito para vós um bezerro de fundição, desviando-vos logo do caminho que o SENHOR vos havia mandado.

I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had molded for yourselves a calf. You had quickly turned aside out of the path that Yahweh had commanded you.

17 Então tomei as duas tábuas, e lancei-as de minhas duas mãos, e quebrei-as diante vossos olhos.

I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands. I broke them before your eyes.

18 E prostrei-me diante do SENHOR, como antes, quarenta dias e quarenta noites: não comi pão nem bebi água, por causa de todo vosso pecado que havíeis cometido fazendo mal aos olhos do SENHOR para irá-lo.

Again I lay facedown before Yahweh for forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin that you had committed, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, so as to provoke him to anger.

19 Porque temi por causa do furor e da ira com que o SENHOR estava irritado contra vós para destruir-vos. Porém o SENHOR me ouviu ainda esta vez.

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry enough against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.

20 Contra Arão também se irou o SENHOR em grande maneira para destruí-lo: e também orei por Arão então.

Yahweh was very angry with Aaron so as to destroy him; I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

21 E tomei vosso pecado, o bezerro que havíeis feito, e queimei no fogo, e o esmigalhei moendo-o muito bem, até que foi reduzido a pó: e lancei o pó dele no ribeiro que descia do monte.

I took your sin, the calf that you had made, and burned it, beat it, and ground it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

22 Também em Taberá, e em Massá, e em Quibrote-Hataavá, irritastes ao SENHOR.

At Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

23 E quando o SENHOR vos enviou desde Cades-Barneia, dizendo: Subi e possuí a terra que eu vos dei; também fostes rebeldes ao dito do SENHOR vosso Deus, e não o crestes, nem obedecestes à sua voz.

When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea and said, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe or listen to his voice.

24 Rebeldes fostes ao SENHOR desde o dia que eu vos conheço.

You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.

25 Prostrei-me, pois, diante do SENHOR quarenta dias e quarenta noites que estive prostrado; porque o SENHOR disse que vos havia de destruir.

So I lay facedown before Yahweh those forty days and forty nights, because he had said that he would destroy you.

26 E orei ao SENHOR, dizendo: Ó Senhor DEUS, não destruas teu povo e tua herança que resgataste com tua grandeza, ao qual tiraste do Egito com mão forte.

I prayed to Yahweh and said, 'O Lord Yahweh, do not destroy your people or your inheritance whom you have redeemed through your greatness, which you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

27 Lembra-te de teus servos Abraão, Isaque, e Jacó; não olhes à dureza deste povo, nem a sua impiedade, nem a seu pecado:

Call to mind your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

28 Porque não digam os da terra de onde nos tiraste: Porquanto não pôde o SENHOR introduzi-los na terra que lhes havia dito, ou porque os aborrecia, os tirou para matá-los no deserto.

so that the land from where you brought us should say, “Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land that he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”

29 E eles são teu povo e tua herança, que tiraste com tua grande força e com teu braço estendido.

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, whom you brought out by your great strength and by the display of your power.'