1 Samuel 6
1 The people of Philistia kept God’s sacred chest in their area for seven months.
A arca de Yahweh estava no país dos filisteus há 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.”
Os filisteus chamaram os sacerdotes e os divinizadores, dizendo: “O que faremos com a arca de Yahweh? Mostre-nos como devemos enviá-la para o 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.”
Eles disseram: “Se você mandar embora a arca do Deus de Israel, não a envie vazia; mas por todos os meios devolva uma oferta de transgressão a ele. Então você será curado, e saberá por que sua mão não é retirada de você”.
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.
Então eles disseram: “Qual deve ser a oferta de transgressão que devemos devolver a ele”? Eles disseram: “Cinco tumores dourados e cinco ratos dourados, pelo número dos senhores dos filisteus; pois uma praga estava sobre todos vocês, e sobre seus senhores”.
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.
Por isso, farás imagens de teus tumores e imagens de teus ratos que martelam a terra; e darás glória ao Deus de Israel”. Talvez ele solte sua mão de vocês, de seus deuses, e de sua 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].
Por que então endurecem seus corações como os egípcios e o Faraó endureceram seus corações? Quando ele trabalhou maravilhosamente entre eles, eles não deixaram o povo ir, e partiram?
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.
“Agora, portanto, levem e preparem uma nova carroça e duas vacas leiteiras nas quais não tenha havido jugo; amarrem as vacas à carroça e tragam seus bezerros para 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.
e levem a arca de Yahweh e coloquem-na na carroça. Coloque as jóias de ouro, que o devolve para uma oferta de transgressão, em uma caixa ao lado; e mande-a embora, para que ela possa ir.
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.”
Eis que se ele subir pelo caminho de sua própria fronteira até Beth Shemesh, então ele nos fez este grande mal; mas se não, então saberemos que não foi a mão dele que nos golpeou. Foi uma oportunidade que nos aconteceu”.
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.
Os homens o fizeram, pegaram duas vacas leiteiras, amarraram-nas à carroça e fecharam seus bezerros em casa.
11 They put in the cart Yahweh’s sacred chest and the box with the models of the gold rats and the tumors.
Eles colocaram a arca de Yahweh na carroça, e a caixa com os ratos dourados e as imagens de seus tumores.
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.
As vacas tomaram o caminho reto pelo caminho de Beth Shemesh. Foram pela estrada, baixando à medida que iam, e não voltaram para a direita nem para a esquerda; e os senhores dos filisteus foram atrás deles até a fronteira de Beth Shemesh.
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.
O povo de Beth Shemesh estava colhendo sua colheita de trigo no vale; e levantaram os olhos e viram a arca, e se regozijaram ao vê-la.
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.
A carroça entrou no campo de Josué de Beth Shemesh, e ficou ali, onde havia uma grande pedra. Em seguida, dividiram a madeira da carroça e ofereceram as vacas para um holocausto a Javé.
Os levitas derrubaram a arca de Iavé e a caixa que estava com ela, na qual estavam as jóias de ouro, e as colocaram sobre a grande pedra; e os homens de Beth Shemesh ofereceram holocaustos e sacrifícios no mesmo dia a Iavé.
16 The five kings from the Philistia area watched all this, and then they returned to Ekron, that same day.
Quando os cinco senhores dos filisteus o viram, voltaram a Ekron no 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].
Estes são os tumores dourados que os filisteus retornaram para uma oferta de transgressão a Iavé: para Ashdod um, para Gaza um, para Ashkelon um, para Gate um, para Ekron um;
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 os ratos dourados, de acordo com o número de todas as cidades dos filisteus pertencentes aos cinco senhores, tanto das cidades fortificadas como das aldeias do campo, até a grande pedra sobre a qual eles colocaram a arca de Iavé. Essa pedra permanece até hoje no campo de Josué de Beth Shemesh.
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.
Ele atingiu os homens de Beth Shemesh, porque eles tinham olhado para a arca de Iavé, ele atingiu cinqüenta mil e setenta dos homens. Então o povo lamentou, porque Javé havia atingido o povo com um grande massacre.
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?”
Os homens de Beth Shemesh disseram: “Quem é capaz de estar diante de Iavé, este Deus santo? A quem ele subirá de 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!”
Eles enviaram mensageiros aos habitantes de Kiriath Jearim, dizendo: “Os filisteus trouxeram de volta a arca de Yahweh. Desçam e tragam-na até vocês mesmos”.
