Deuteronomy 7
1 “Yahweh our God will bring you to the land that you will soon enter and occupy. As you advance, he will expel from that land seven people-groups that are more powerful and more numerous than you are. He will expel the Heth people-group, the Girgash people-group, the Amor people-group, the Canaan people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group.
Quando o Senhor teu Deus te tiver introduzido na terra, a qual vais a possuir, e tiver lançado fora muitas gentes de diante de ti, os heteus, e os girgaseus, e os amorreus, e os cananeus, e os phereseus, e os heveus, e os jebuseus, sete gentes mais numerosas e mais poderosas do que tu;
2 When Yahweh our God enables you to defeat [DOU] them, you must kill all of them. You must not make (an alliance/a peace treaty) with any of them. You must not act mercifully toward them.
E o Senhor teu Deus as tiver dado diante de ti, para as ferir, totalmente as destruirás; não farás com elas concerto, nem terás piedade delas;
3 You must not marry any of them. You must not allow your daughters to marry any of their sons or allow your sons to marry any of their daughters.
Nem te aparentarás com elas: não darás tuas filhas a seus filhos, e não tomarás suas filhas para teus filhos;
4 Because, if you did that, those people would cause your children to stop worshiping Yahweh and to worship other gods. If that happens, Yahweh will be very angry with you and he will get rid of you immediately.
Pois fariam desviar teus filhos de mim, para que servissem a outros deuses; e a ira do Senhor se acenderia contra vós, e depressa vos consumiria.
5 This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their (altars/places for sacrificing animals), break apart the stone pillars [that are dedicated to their male god Baal], cut down the [poles that they use when they worship the goddess] Asherah, and burn their [wooden] idols.
Porém assim lhes fareis: Derrubareis os seus altares, quebrantareis as suas estátuas; e cortareis os seus bosques, e queimareis a fogo as suas imagens de escultura.
6 You must do that because you are a group of people who belong to Yahweh our God. He has chosen you from among all the people-groups in the world to be his own special people.
Porque povo santo és ao Senhor teu Deus: o Senhor teu Deus te escolheu, para que lhe fosses o seu povo próprio, de todos os povos que sobre a terra há.
7 “It was not because you were more numerous than any other people-group that Yahweh preferred you; you are one of the smallest people-groups on the earth.
O Senhor não tomou prazer em vós, nem vos escolheu, porque a vossa multidão era mais do que a de todos os outros povos, pois vós éreis menos em número do que todos os povos:
8 Instead, it is because Yahweh loved you and because he wanted to do what he vowed to your ancestors. That is the reason that he rescued you by his great power [MTY], and freed you from being slaves [MTY] of the king of Egypt.
Mas porque o Senhor vos amava, e para guardar o juramento que jurara a vossos pais, o Senhor vos tirou com mão forte e vos resgatou da casa da servidão, da mão de faraó, rei do Egito.
9 So do not forget that Yahweh our God is the only/true God. He will do what he agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love (for 1,000 generations/forever) all those who love him and who obey his commandments.
Saberás pois que o Senhor teu Deus é Deus, o Deus fiel, que guarda o concerto e a misericórdia até mil gerações aos que o amam e guardam os seus mandamentos;
10 But for those who hate him, he will (pay them back/do to them what they deserve); he will punish them and quickly get rid of them.
E dá o pago em sua cara a qualquer dos que o aborrecem, fazendo-o perecer: não dilatará ao que o aborrece; em sua cara lho pagará.
11 “So you must be sure to obey all the commandments and rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.
Guarda pois os mandamentos, e os estatutos e os juízos que hoje te mando fazer.
12 If you heed these commands and obey them faithfully, Yahweh our God will do what he has agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love you, which is what he vowed to your ancestors that he would do.
Será pois que, se, ouvindo estes juízos, os guardardes e fizerdes, o Senhor teu Deus te guardará o concerto e a beneficência que jurou a teus pais,
13 He will love you and bless you. He will enable you to have many children [DOU]. He will bless your fields, with the result that you will have plenty of grain and [grapes to make] wine and plenty of [olive] oil. You will have many cattle and sheep. He will do all these things for you in the land that he promised to your ancestors that he would give to you.
E amar-te-á, e abençoar-te-á, e te fará multiplicar, e abençoará o fruto do teu ventre, e o fruto da tua terra, o teu grão, e o teu mosto, e o teu azeite, e a criação das tuas vacas, e o rebanho do teu gado miúdo, na terra que jurou a teus pais dar-te
14 He will bless you more than he will bless any other people-group. All of you will be able to have/produce children [LIT]. All of your livestock will be able to produce offspring.
Bendito serás mais do que todos os povos: nem macho nem fêmea entre ti haverá estéril, nem entre os teus animais.
15 And Yahweh will protect you from all illnesses. You will not be afflicted with any of the dreadful diseases that [our ancestors knew about] in Egypt, but all your enemies will be inflicted with those diseases.
E o Senhor de ti desviará toda a enfermidade: sobre ti não porá nenhuma das más doenças dos egípcios, que bem sabes, antes as porá sobre todos os que te aborrecem.
16 You must get rid of all the people-groups that Yahweh our God will enable you to conquer. Do not [SYN] act mercifully toward any of them. And do not worship their gods, because if you do that, it would be like falling into a trap [from which you will never be able to escape].
Pois consumirás a todos os povos que te der o Senhor teu Deus: o teu olho não os poupará: e não servirás a seus deuses, pois isto te seria por laço
17 “Do not think to yourselves, ‘These people-groups are more numerous/powerful than we are, so we certainly cannot [RHQ] expel them.’
Se disseres no teu coração: Estas gentes são mais numerosas do que eu; como as poderei lançar fora?
18 Do not be afraid of them. Instead, think about what Yahweh our God did to the king of Egypt and to all the people whom he [ruled].
Delas não tenhas temor: não deixes de te lembrar do que o Senhor teu Deus fez a faraó e a todos os egípcios,
19 Do not forget the terrible plagues that your ancestors saw [Yahweh inflict on the people of Egypt], and the many [DOU] miracles [that he performed], and the very powerful [DOU, MTY] way by which he brought your ancestors out [of Egypt]. Yahweh our God will do the same kind of things to the people-groups that you are afraid of now.
Das grandes provas a que viram os teu olhos, e dos sinais, e maravilhas, e mão forte, e braço estendido, com que o Senhor teu Deus te tirou: assim fará o Senhor teu Deus com todos os povos, diante dos quais tu temes.
20 Furthermore, he will cause them to become terrified, and he will destroy those who remain alive and run away to hide from you.
E mais o Senhor teu Deus entre eles mandará vespões, até que pereçam os que ficarem, e se escondam de diante de ti.
21 Do not be afraid of those people, because Yahweh our God will be with/among you. He is a great God; he is the one you should be afraid of.
Não te espantes diante deles: porque o Senhor teu Deus está no meio de ti, Deus grande e terrível.
22 He will expel those people-groups gradually. You should not [try to] expel all of them at one time, because if you did that, the number of wild animals would quickly increase, [and you would not be able to get rid of them].
E o Senhor teu Deus lançará fora estas gentes pouco a pouco de diante de ti: não poderás destrui-las todas de pronto, para que as feras do campo se não multipliquem contra ti.
23 Instead, Yahweh will enable you to defeat your enemies [one people-group at a time]. He will cause them to panic until they are destroyed.
E o Senhor tas dará diante de ti, e as fará pasmar com grande pasmo, até que sejam destruídas.
24 He will enable you to defeat [IDM] their kings. After you kill them, their names will be forgotten {people will forget about them}. No people-group will be able to stop you; you will destroy all of them.
Também os seus reis te entregará na mão, para que desfaças os seus nomes de debaixo dos céus: nenhum homem parará diante de ti, até que os destruas.
25 You must burn the wooden idols [that represent] their gods. Do not desire to take the silver or gold [decorations] that are on those idols, because if you take them for yourselves, they will be like a trap [to cause you to want to worship those idols]. Yahweh hates [the worship of those idols].
As imagens de escultura de seus deuses queimarás a fogo; a prata e o ouro que estão sobre elas não cobiçarás, nem os tomarás para ti, para que te não enlaces neles; pois abominação é ao Senhor teu Deus.
26 You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise [DOU] those idols, because they are things that [Yahweh] has cursed.”
Não meterás pois abominação em tua casa, para que não sejas anátema, assim como ela: de todo a detestarás, e de todo a abominarás, porque anátema é.
