Judges 21
1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin to wife.
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 the house of God, and stayed there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
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 said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?
E disseram: Ah! Senhor Deus d'Israel, porque succedeu isto em Israel, que hoje falte uma tribu em Israel?
4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt 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 that came not up with the congregation to the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely 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 repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
E arrependeram-se os filhos d'Israel ácerca de Benjamin, seu irmão, e disseram: Cortada é hoje d'Israel uma tribu.
7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to 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, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
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 the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
Porquanto o povo se contou: e eis que nenhum dos moradores de Jabes de Gilead se achou ali.
10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
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 the thing that you shall do, You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that has lain by man.
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 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, which is 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 the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them.
Então todo o ajuntamento enviou, e fallou aos filhos de Benjamin, que estavam na penha de Rimmon, e lhes proclamou a paz.
14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
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 repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in 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 elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
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, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
Disseram mais: A herança dos que ficaram de resto é de Benjamin, e nenhuma tribu de Israel deve ser destruida.
18 However, we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that 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 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel 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 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
E mandaram aos filhos de Benjamin, dizendo: Ide, e emboscae-vos nas vinhas,
21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come you out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go 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 it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be favorable to them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for you did not give to them at this time, that you should be guilty.
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 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned to their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelled 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 And the children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.
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 that which was right in his own eyes.
N'aquelles dias não havia rei em Israel: porém cada um fazia o que parecia recto aos seus olhos.
