Exodus 1
1 These were the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob) who came with him to Egypt along with their families:
Estes pois são os nomes dos filhos de Israel, que entraram no Egypto com Jacob: cada um entrou com sua casa:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
Ruben, Simeão, Levi, e Judah;
3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
Issacar, Zabulon, e Benjamin;
4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
Dan e Naphtali, Gad e Aser.
5 Jacob had 70 descendants there, including Joseph who was already in Egypt.
Todas as almas, pois, que procederam da côxa de Jacob, foram setenta almas: José, porém, estava no Egypto.
6 Eventually Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died.
Sendo pois José fallecido, e todos os seus irmãos, e toda aquella geração,
7 However, the Israelites had many children and their numbers increased rapidly. In fact there were so many of them that they became very powerful—the country was full of them.
Os filhos de Israel fructificaram, e augmentaram muito, e multiplicaram-se, e foram fortalecidos grandemente; de maneira que a terra se encheu d'elles.
8 Then a new king came to power who didn't know anything about Joseph.
Depois levantou-se um novo rei sobre o Egypto, que não conhecera a José;
9 He conferred with his fellow Egyptians and said, “Look at these Israelites—there are more than them than us, and they're more powerful than us.
O qual disse ao seu povo: Eis que o povo dos filhos de Israel é muito, e mais poderoso do que nós.
10 We've got to make plan to deal with them before they become so many that if there's a war they'll side with our enemies and fight us, and flee the country.”
Eia, usemos sabiamente para com elle, para que não se multiplique, e aconteça que, vindo guerra, elle tambem se ajunte com os nossos inimigos, e peleje contra nós, e suba da terra.
11 So the Egyptians made them do forced labor and put taskmasters in charge of them. They used them to build the storage towns of Pithom and Rameses.
E pozeram sobre elles maioraes de tributos, para os affligirem com suas cargas. Porque edificaram a Pharaó cidades de thesouros, Pitom e Ramesses.
12 But the more the Israelites were mistreated, the more they grew in numbers and spread out—and the more the Egyptians detested them.
Mas quanto mais o affligiam, tanto mais se multiplicava, e tanto mais crescia: de maneira que se enfadavam por causa dos filhos de Israel.
13 The Egyptians worked the Israelites brutally,
E os egypcios faziam servir os filhos de Israel com dureza;
14 making their lives a misery. They made them do hard labor, building with mortar and brick, and all kind of heavy work in the fields. In all of this hard labor they treated them brutally.
Assim que lhes fizeram amargar a vida com dura servidão em barro, e em tijolos, e com todo o trabalho no campo; com todo o seu serviço, em que os serviam com dureza.
15 Then the king gave orders to the Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah.
E o rei do Egypto fallou ás parteiras das hebreas (das quaes o nome de uma era Siphra, e o nome da outra Pua),
16 He told them, “When you assist the Hebrew women during childbirth, if you see it's a boy, kill him; but if it's a girl, let her live.”
E disse: Quando ajudardes a parir as hebreas, e as virdes sobre os assentos, se fôr filho, matae-o; mas se fôr filha, então viva.
17 But because the midwives revered God, they didn't do what the king of Egypt had ordered. They let the boys live as well.
As parteiras, porém, temeram a Deus, e não fizeram como o rei do Egypto lhes dissera, antes conservavam os meninos com vida.
18 The king of Egypt called the midwives in and demanded to know, “Why have you done this— letting the male children live?”
Então o rei do Egypto chamou as parteiras, e disse-lhes: Porque fizestes isto, que guardastes os meninos com vida?
19 “Hebrew women aren't like Egyptian women,” the midwives told Pharaoh. “They give birth more easily—they have them before we midwives arrive.”
E as parteiras disseram a Pharaó: Porquanto as mulheres hebreas não são como as egypcias: porque são vivas, e já teem parido antes que a parteira venha a ellas.
20 God treated the midwives well, and the people increased in number so there were even more of them.
Portanto Deus fez bem ás parteiras. E o povo se augmentou, e se fortaleceu muito.
21 Because the midwives revered God, he gave them families of their own.
E aconteceu que, porquanto as parteiras temeram a Deus, estabeleceu-lhes casas.
22 Then Pharaoh issued this order to all his people: “Throw every Hebrew boy that's born into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
Então ordenou Pharaó a todo o seu povo, dizendo: A todos os filhos que nascerem lancareis no rio, mas a todas as filhas guardareis com vida.
