Exodus 32
1 [(Moses/I) stayed on top of the mountain a long time]. When the people realized that he/I was not returning quickly, they gathered near Aaron and said to him, “We do not know what has happened to that man Moses who brought us here out of Egypt. So quickly, make us ([an idol/a statue of a god]) who will lead us!”
Mas vendo o povo que Moisés tardava em descer do monte, ajuntou-se o povo a Aarão, e disseram-lhe: Levanta-te, faze-nos deuses, que vão adiante de nós: porque enquanto a este Moisés, a este homem que nos tirou da terra do Egito, não sabemos o que lhe sucedeu.
2 Aaron replied to them, “All right, [I will do that, but] tell your wives and your sons and your daughters to take off all their gold earrings and bring them to me.”
E Aarão lhes disse: arrancai os pendentes de ouro, que estão nas orelhas de vossas mulheres, e de vossos filhos, e de vossas filhas, e trazei-mos.
3 So the people did that. They took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
Então todo o povo arrancou os pendentes de ouro, que estavam nas suas orelhas, e os trouxeram a Aarão,
4 He took all those gold earrings and melted them in a fire. He [poured the gold into a mold and] made a statue that looked like a young bull. The people saw it and said, “This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt!”
E ele os tomou das suas mãos, e formou o ouro com um buril, e fez dele um bezerro de fundição. Então disseram: Estes são teus deuses, ó Israel, que te tiraram da terra do Egito.
5 When Aaron saw [what was happening], he built an altar in front of the [statue of the] young bull. Then he announced, “Tomorrow we will have a festival to honor Yahweh!”
E Aarão, vendo isto, edificou um altar diante dele: e Aarão apregoou, e disse: amanhã será festa ao Senhor.
6 So the people got up early the next morning and brought animals to kill and burn as sacrifices on the altar. They also brought sacrifices to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. Then they sat down to eat and drink [wine]. Then they got up and started dancing in a very immoral way.
E no dia seguinte madrugaram, e ofereceram holocaustos, e trouxeram ofertas pacíficas; e o povo assentou-se a comer e a beber; depois levantaram-se a folgar.
7 Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Go back down from the mountain, because your people, the ones that you brought up here from Egypt, have [already] (become very depraved/wicked)!
Então disse o Senhor a Moisés: vai, desce; porque o teu povo, que fizeste subir do Egito, se tem corrompido,
8 They have already (left the road that I showed them/stopped obeying me)! They have made [a statue of] a young bull from melted gold. They have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. And they are saying, ‘This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from Egypt!’”
E depressa se tem desviado do caminho que eu lhes tinha ordenado: fizeram para si um bezerro de fundição, e perante ele se inclinaram, e sarificaram-lhe, e disseram: Estes são os teus deuses, ó Israel, que te tiraram da terra do Egito.
9 Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “I have seen that these people are very stubborn.
Disse mais o Senhor a Moisés: Tenho visto a este povo, e eis que é povo obstinado.
10 I am very angry with them, and so I am going to get rid of them. Do not try to stop me! Then I will cause you and your descendants to become a great nation.”
Agora pois deixa-me que o meu furor se acenda contra eles, e os consuma: e eu te farei uma grande nação.
11 But Moses/I pleaded with his/my God, Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, (you should not be very angry with your people!/why are you so angry with your people [RHQ]?) These are the people whom you rescued from Egypt with very great power [MTY, DOU]!
Porém Moisés suplicou ao Senhor seu Deus, e disse: O Senhor, porque se acende o teu furor contra o teu povo, que tu tiraste da terra do Egito com grande força e com forte mão?
12 Do not [do anything that would] allow the people of Egypt to say, ‘Their god led them out from our country, but [he did that] only [because he wanted] to kill them in the mountains and get rid of them completely [RHQ]!’ Stop being so angry! (Change your mind/Do not do what you have told me that you will do)! Do not do to your people this terrible thing [that you have just said that you will do]
Porque hão de falar os egípcios, dizendo: Para mal os tirou, para mata-los nos montes, e para destruí-los da face da terra? Torna-te da ira do teu furor, e arrepende-te deste mal contra o teu povo.
13 Think about your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You solemnly promised them, ‘I will enable you to have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky.’ You said to them, ‘I will give to your descendants all the land that I am promising to give them. It will be their land forever.’”
Lembra-te de Abraão, de Isaac, e de Israel, os teus servos, aos quais por ti mesmo tens jurado, e lhes disseste: Multiplicarei a vossa semente como as estrelas dos céus, e darei à vossa semente toda esta terra, de que tenho dito, para que a possuam por herança eternamente.
14 So Yahweh changed his mind. He did not do to his people the terrible thing that he said he would do.
Então o Senhor arrependeu-se do mal que dissera, que havia de fazer ao seu povo.
15 Moses/I turned away from God and went down the mountain, carrying in his hands the two stone slabs on which Yahweh had engraved his commandments. He had written on both sides of the slabs.
E tornou-se Moisés, e desceu do monte com as duas tábuas do testemunho na sua mão, tábuas escritas de ambas as bandas; de uma e de outra banda escritas estavam,
16 God [himself] had made the slabs, and he was the one who had engraved the commandments on them.
E aquelas tábuas eram obra de Deus; também a escritura era a mesma escritura de Deus, esculpida nas tábuas.
17 Joshua heard the very loud noise of the people shouting. So when he and I got near the camp, Joshua said, “There is a noise in the camp that sounds like [the noise of] a battle!”
E, ouvindo Josué a voz do povo que jubilava, disse a Moisés: Alarido de guerra há no arraial.
18 But Moses/I replied, [“No], that is not the shouting that people do when they have won a victory or when they have been defeated [in a battle] What I hear is the sound of [loud] singing!”
Porém ele disse: Não é alarido dos vitoriosos, nem alarido dos vencidos, mas o alarido dos que cantam eu ouço.
19 As soon as Moses/I came close to the camp and saw the statue of the young bull and saw the people dancing, he/I became extremely angry. He/I threw the stone tablets that he/I was carrying down onto the ground, there at the base of the mountain.
E aconteceu que, chegando ele ao arraial, e vendo o bezerro e as danças, acendeu-se o furor de Moisés, e arremessou as tábuas das suas mãos, e quebrou-as ao pé do monte;
20 Then he/I took the statue of the young bull that they had made and melted it in the fire. [When it cooled], he/I ground it into [fine] powder. Then he/I mixed the powder with water and forced the Israeli people to drink it.
E tomou o bezerro que tinham feito, e queimou-o no fogo, moendo-o até que se tornou em pó; e o espargiu sobre as águas, e deu-o a beber aos filhos de Israel.
21 Then he/I said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, with the result that you have made them commit such a terrible sin?”
E Moisés disse a Aarão: Que te tem feito este povo, que sobre ele trouxeste tamanho pecado?
22 Aaron replied, “Please do not be angry with me, sir. You know that these people are very determined to do evil things.
Então disse Aarão: Não se acenda a ira do meu senhor: tu sabes que este povo é inclinado ao mal
23 They said to me, ‘As for that man Moses, the one who brought us up here from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him. So make for us an idol that will lead us!’
E eles me disseram: Faze-nos deuses que vão adiante de nós; porque não sabemos que sucedeu a este Moisés, a este homem que nos tirou da terra do Egito.
24 So I said to them, ‘Everyone who is wearing [gold earrings] should take them off.’ So they [took them off and] gave them to me. I threw them into the fire, and out came this statue of a young bull!”
Então eu lhes disse: Quem tem ouro, arranque-o: e deram-mo, e lancei-o no fogo, e saiu este bezerro.
25 Moses/I saw that Aaron had allowed the people to become completely out of control and to do things that would make their enemies think the Israeli people were foolish.
E vendo Moisés que o povo estava despido, porque Aarão o havia despido para vergonha entre os seus inimigos,
26 So he/I stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, “Everyone who is loyal to Yahweh should come [closer] to me!” So the descendants of Levi gathered around him/me.
Pôs-se em pé Moisés na porta do arraial, e disse: Quem é do Senhor, venha a mim. Então se ajuntaram a ele todos os filhos de Levi.
27 Then he/I said to them, “Yahweh, the God of us Israeli people, commands that every one of you should fasten your sword to your side, and then go through the camp from this entrance to the other one, and kill some of your relatives and your companions and your neighbors.”
E disse-lhes: Assim diz o Senhor, o Deus de Israel: Cada um ponha a sua espada sobre a sua coxa: e passai e tornai pelo arraial de porta em porta, e mate cada um a seu irmão, e cada um a seu amigo, e cada um a seu próximo.
28 The descendants of Levi did what Moses/I told them to do, and they killed 3,000 men on that day.
E os filhos de Levi fizeram conforme à palavra de Moisés: e cairam do povo aquele dia uns três mil homens.
29 Moses/I said to the descendants of Levi, “Today you have dedicated yourselves to serving Yahweh by (killing/not sparing) [even] your own sons and brothers, and as a result Yahweh will bless you.”
Porquanto Moisés tinha dito: consagrai hoje as vossas mãos ao Senhor; porquanto cada um será contra o seu filho, e contra o seu irmão: e isto para ele vos dar hoje benção.
30 The next day, Moses/I said to the people, “You have committed a terrible sin. But I will now climb up the mountain again to talk with Yahweh. Perhaps I can [persuade him] to forgive you for sinning [like this].”
E aconteceu que no dia seguinte Moisés disse ao povo: Vós pecastes grande pecado: agora porém subirei ao Senhor; porventura farei propiciação por vosso pecado.
31 So Moses/I went back up the mountain and said to Yahweh, “I am sorry to admit that these people have committed a terrible sin. They have made for themselves a gold idol and have worshiped it.
Assim tornou-se Moisés ao Senhor, e disse: Ora, este povo pecou pecado grande, fazendo para si deuses de ouro.
32 But now I ask you to please forgive them for having sinned. If you will not forgive them, then erase my name from the book in which you have written [the names of your people].”
Agora pois perdoa o seu pecado, senão risca-me, peço-te, do teu Livro, que tens escrito.
33 But Yahweh said to Moses/me, “It is [only] those who have sinned against me whose names I will erase from that book.
Então disse o Senhor a Moisés: aquele que pecar contra mim, a este riscarei eu do meu livro.
34 Now you go back down and lead the [Israeli] people to the place that I told you about. Keep in mind that my angel will go in front of you. But, at the time that I determine, I will punish them for their sin.”
Vai pois agora, conduze este povo para onde te tenho dito: eis que o meu anjo irá adiante de ti; porém no dia da minha visitação visitarei neles o seu pecado.
35 [Later] Yahweh caused a plague to strike the people because they had told Aaron to make the gold [statue of a] young bull.
Assim feriu o Senhor o povo, porquanto fizeram o bezerro que Aarão tinha feito.
