Joshua 24
1 Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.
Depois ajuntou Josué todas as tribus d'Israel em Sichem: e chamou os anciãos d'Israel, e os seus Cabeças, e os seus juizes, e os seus officiaes: e elles se apresentaram diante de Deus.
2 And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.
Então Josué disse a todo o povo: Assim diz o Senhor Deus d'Israel: D'além do rio antigamente habitaram vossos paes, Terah, pae d'Abrahão e pae de Nachor: e serviram a outros deuses.
3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.
Eu porém tomei a vosso pae Abrahão d'além do rio, e o fiz andar por toda a terra de Canaan: tambem multipliquei a sua semente, e dei-lhe a Isaac.
4 And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
E a Isaac dei a Jacob e a Esaú: e a Esaú dei a montanha de Seir, para a possuir: porém Jacob e seus filhos desceram para o Egypto.
5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out.
Então enviei a Moysés e a Aarão, e feri ao Egypto, como o fiz no meio d'elle; e depois vos tirei de lá
6 I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fathers to the Red Sea, with their war-carriages and their horsemen.
E, tirando eu a vossos paes do Egypto, viestes ao mar: e os egypcios perseguiram a vossos paes, com carros e com cavalleiros, até ao Mar Vermelho.
7 And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.
E clamaram ao Senhor, e poz uma escuridão entre vós e os egypcios, e trouxe o mar sobre elles, e os cobriu, e os vossos olhos viram o que eu fiz no Egypto: depois habitastes no deserto muitos dias.
8 And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.
Então eu vos trouxe á terra dos amorrheos, que habitavam d'além do Jordão, os quaes pelejaram contra vós: porém os dei na vossa mão, e possuistes a sua terra, e os destrui diante de vós
9 Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:
Levantou-se tambem Balac, filho de Zippor, rei dos moabitas, e pelejou contra Israel: e enviou e chamou a Balaão, filho de Beor, para que vos amaldiçoasse.
10 But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.
Porém eu não quiz ouvir a Balaão: pelo que, abençoando-vos, abençoou, e livrei-vos da sua mão.
11 Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.
E, passando vós o Jordão, e vindo a Jericó, os habitantes de Jericó pelejaram contra vós, os amorrheos, e os pherezeos, e os cananeos, e os hetheos, e os girgaseos, e os heveos, e os jebuseos; porém os dei na vossa mão.
12 And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.
E enviei vespões diante de vós, que os expelliram de diante de vós, como a ambos os reis dos amorrheos: não com a tua espada, nem com o teu arco.
13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.
E eu vos dei a terra em que não trabalhastes, e cidades que não edificastes, e habitaes n'ellas, e comeis das vinhas e dos olivaes que não plantastes.
14 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
Agora pois temei ao Senhor, e servi-o com sinceridade e com verdade: e deitae fóra os deuses aos quaes serviram vossos paes d'além do rio e no Egypto, e servi ao Senhor.
15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
Porém, se vos parece mal aos vossos olhos servir ao Senhor, escolhei-vos hoje a quem sirvaes: se os deuses a quem serviram vossos paes, que estavam d'além do rio, ou os deuses dos amorrheos, em cuja terra habitaes: porém eu e a minha casa serviremos ao Senhor.
16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;
Então respondeu o povo, e disse: Nunca nos aconteça que deixemos ao Senhor para servir mos a outros deuses;
17 For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:
Porque o Senhor é o nosso Deus; elle é o que nos fez subir, a nós e a nossos paes, da terra do Egypto, da casa da servidão, e o que tem feito estes grandes signaes aos nossos olhos, e nos guardou por todo o caminho que andámos, e entre todos os povos pelo meio dos quaes passámos.
18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.
E o Senhor expelliu de diante de nós a todas estas gentes, até ao amorrheo, morador da terra: tambem nós serviremos ao Senhor, porquanto é nosso Deus.
19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
Então Josué disse ao povo: Não podereis servir ao Senhor, porquanto é Deus sancto, é Deus zeloso, que não perdoará a vossa transgressão nem os vossos peccados.
20 If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
Se deixardes ao Senhor, e servirdes a deuses estranhos, então se tornará, e vos fará mal, e vos consumirá, depois de vos fazer bem
21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
Então disse o povo a Josué: Não, antes ao Senhor serviremos.
22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
E Josué disse ao povo: Sois testemunhas contra vós mesmos de que vós escolhestes ao Senhor, para o servir. E disseram: Somos testemunhas.
23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Deitae pois agora fóra aos deuses estranhos que ha no meio de vós: e inclinae o vosso coração ao Senhor Deus d'Israel.
24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
E disse o povo a Josué: Serviremos ao Senhor nosso Deus, e obedeceremos á sua voz.
25 So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
Assim fez Josué concerto n'aquelle dia com o povo, e lh'o poz por estatuto e direito em Sichem.
26 And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.
E Josué escreveu estas palavras no livro da lei de Deus: e tomou uma grande pedra, e a erigiu ali debaixo do carvalho que estava junto ao sanctuario do Senhor.
27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
E disse Josué a todo o povo: Eis que esta pedra nos será por testemunho; pois ella ouviu todas as palavras que o Senhor nos tem dito: e tambem será testemunho contra vós, para que não mintaes a vosso Deus
28 Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.
Então Josué enviou o povo, a cada um para a sua herdade.
29 Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.
E depois d'estas coisas succedeu que Josué, filho de Nun, o servo do Senhor, falleceu, sendo da edade de cento e dez annos.
30 And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash.
E sepultaram-n'o no termo da sua herdade, em Timnath-sera, que está no monte d'Ephraim, para o norte do monte de Gaas.
31 And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.
Serviu pois Israel ao Senhor todos os dias de Josué, e todos os dias dos anciãos que ainda viveram muito depois de Josué, e sabiam toda a obra que o Senhor tinha feito a Israel.
32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.
Tambem enterraram em Sichem os ossos de José, que os filhos d'Israel trouxeram do Egypto, n'aquella parte do campo que Jacob comprara aos filhos d'Hemor, pae de Sichem, por cem peças de prata: porquanto foram em herança para os filhos de José.
33 Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
Falleceu tambem Eleazar, filho d'Aarão, e o sepultaram no outeiro de Phineas, seu filho, que lhe fôra dado na montanha de Ephraim.
