1 Samuel 6
1 The people of Philistia kept God’s sacred chest in their area for seven months.
E esteve a arca do SENHOR na terra dos filisteus sete meses.
2 Then they summoned their priests and their (diviners/men who practice rituals to find out what would happen in the future). They asked them, “What should we do with the sacred chest of Yahweh? Tell us how we should send it back to its own land.”
Então os filisteus, chamando os sacerdotes e adivinhos, perguntaram: Que faremos da arca do SENHOR? Declarai-nos como a devemos tornar a enviar a seu lugar.
3 Those men replied, “Send with it an offering [to show Yahweh that you know that you are] guilty [for having captured the chest], in order that the plague will stop. If you do that, and then if you are healed, you will know that Yahweh is the one who caused you to experience the plague.”
E eles disseram: Se enviais a arca do Deus de Israel, não a envieis vazia; mas lhe pagareis a expiação: e então sereis sãos, e conhecereis por que não se afastou de vós sua mão.
4 The people of Philistia asked, “What kind of offering should we send?” The men replied, “Make five gold models of the tumors on your skin, and five gold models of rats. Make five of each because that is the same number as the number of your kings, and because the plague has struck both you people and your five kings.
E eles disseram: E que será a expiação que lhe pagaremos? E eles responderam: Conforme o número dos príncipes dos filisteus, cinco chagas de ouro, e cinco ratos de ouro, porque a mesma praga que todos têm, têm também vossos príncipes.
5 Make models that represent the rats and the tumors that are ruining your land. Make them in order to honor the god of the Israeli people. If you do that, perhaps he will stop punishing [IDM] you, and your gods, and your land.
Fareis, pois, as formas de vossas chagas, e as formas de vossos ratos que destroem a terra, e dareis glória ao Deus de Israel: talvez aliviará sua mão de sobre vós, e de sobre vossos deuses, e de sobre vossa terra.
6 Do not be [RHQ] stubborn [IDM] like the Egyptians and their king were. [They did not do what the Israelis’ god told them to do, so he punished them]. After the Israelis’ god finished punishing them very severely, they were glad to allow the Israelis to leave their country [RHQ].
Mas por que endureceis vosso coração, como os egípcios e Faraó endureceram seu coração? Depois que os houve assim tratado, não os deixaram que se fossem, e se foram?
7 “So you must build a new cart. Then get two cows that have very recently given birth to calves. They must be cows that have never been hitched to a cart [MTY]. Hitch those cows to the new cart, and take the calves away from their mothers.
Fazei, pois, agora um carro novo, e tomai logo duas vacas que criem, às quais não haja sido posto jugo, e preparai as vacas ao carro, e fazei voltar de detrás delas seus bezerros a casa.
8 Put the Israelis’ god’s sacred chest on the cart. Also put in the cart the five gold models of the tumors on your skin and the five gold models of rats. Put them in a small box alongside the sacred chest. They will be an offering to show that you know that you deserved to be punished [for capturing the sacred chest]. Then send [the cows] down the road, [pulling] the cart.
Tomareis logo a arca do SENHOR, e a poreis sobre o carro; e ponde em uma caixa ao lado dela as joias de ouro que lhe pagais em expiação: e a deixareis que se vá.
9 [Watch the cart as the cows pull it]. If they pull it to Beth-Shemesh [town] in Israel, we will know that it was the Israelis’ god who caused us to experience this plague. But if they do not take it there, we will know that it was not the god [MTY] of the Israelis who has punished us. We will know that it just happened.”
E olhai: se sobe pelo caminho de seu termo a Bete-Semes, ele nos fez este mal tão grande; e se não, teremos certeza de que não foi sua mão que nos feriu, mas nos foi coincidência.
10 So the people did what the priests and men who predicted what would happen in the future told them to do. They [made] a cart [and] hitched two cows to it. They took the calves from their mothers.
E aqueles homens o fizeram assim; pois tomando duas vacas que criavam, prepararam-nas ao carro, e encerraram em casa seus bezerros.
11 They put in the cart Yahweh’s sacred chest and the box with the models of the gold rats and the tumors.
Logo puseram a arca do SENHOR sobre o carro, e a caixa com os ratos de ouro e com as formas de suas chagas.
12 Then the cows started walking, and they went straight toward Beth-Shemesh. They stayed on the road, and were mooing all the time. They did not turn to the left or to the right. The five kings of the Philistia area followed the cows until they reached the edge of Beth-Shemesh.
E as vacas se encaminharam pelo caminho de Bete-Semes, e iam por um mesmo caminho andando e bramando, sem desviar-se nem à direita nem à esquerda: e os príncipes dos filisteus foram atrás elas até o termo de Bete-Semes.
13 At that time, the people of Beth-Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley [outside the city]. [When the cows came along the road], they looked up and saw the sacred chest. They were extremely happy to see it.
E os de Bete-Semes ceifavam o trigo no vale; e levantando seus olhos viram a arca, e alegraram-se quando a viram.
14 The cows pulled the cart into the field of a man named Joshua, and they stopped alongside a large rock. Several men from the tribe of Levi lifted from the cart the sacred chest and the box containing the gold models of the rats and the tumors, and they put them all on the large rock. Then the people smashed the cart and kindled a fire with the wood [from which the cart had been made]. They slaughtered the cows and burned their bodies/carcasses on the fire to be an offering for Yahweh that would be completely burned. That day the people of Beth-Shemesh offered to Yahweh [many] sacrifices that were completely burned, and [other] sacrifices.
E o carro veio ao campo de Josué Bete-Semita, e parou ali porque ali havia uma grande pedra; e eles cortaram a madeira do carro, e ofereceram as vacas em holocausto ao SENHOR.
E os levitas baixaram a arca do SENHOR, e a caixa que estava junto a ela, na qual estavam as joias de ouro, e puseram-nas sobre aquela grande pedra; e os homens de Bete-Semes sacrificaram holocaustos e mataram vítimas ao SENHOR naquele dia.
16 The five kings from the Philistia area watched all this, and then they returned to Ekron, that same day.
O qual vendo os cinco príncipes dos filisteus, voltaram a Ecrom o mesmo dia.
17 The five gold models of tumors that they sent to be an offering to Yahweh to show that they knew that they deserved to be punished were gifts from [those five kings who were rulers of] Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron [cities].
Estas, pois, são as chagas de ouro que pagaram os filisteus ao SENHOR em expiação: por Asdode uma, por Gaza uma, por Asquelom uma, por Gate uma, por Ecrom uma;
18 The models of the five gold rats were gifts from the people of those five cities and the surrounding towns. The large rock at Beth-Shemesh, on which the [men of the tribe of Levi] set the sacred chest, is still there in the field that belonged to Joshua. When people see it, they remember [what happened there].
E ratos de ouro conforme ao número de todas as cidades dos filisteus pertencentes aos cinco príncipes, desde as cidades fortes até as aldeias sem muro; e até a grande pedra sobre a qual puseram a arca do SENHOR, pedra que está no campo de Josué, bete-semita, até hoje.
19 But seventy men from Beth-Shemesh looked into Yahweh’s sacred chest, and because of that, Yahweh caused them to die. Then the people mourned very much because Yahweh punished [IDM] those men like that.
Então feriu Deus aos de Bete-Semes, porque haviam olhado no arca do SENHOR; feriu no povo cinquenta mil e setenta homens. E o povo pôs luto, porque o SENHOR lhe havia ferido de tão grande praga.
20 They said, “No one [RHQ] can (resist the power of/stand in the presence of) Yahweh, our holy God, [and remain alive]! Where can we send the sacred chest?”
E disseram os de Bete-Semes: Quem poderá estar diante do SENHOR o Deus santo? e a quem subirá desde nós?
21 They sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-Jearim [city] to tell them, “The people of Philistia have returned Yahweh’s sacred chest to us! Come here and take it away!”
E enviaram mensageiros aos de Quriate-Jearim, dizendo: Os filisteus devolveram a arca do SENHOR: descei, pois, e levai-a a vós.
