Genesis 24
1 Abraham was now a very old man. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in many ways.
E era Abrahão já velho e adiantado em edade, e o Senhor havia abençoado a Abrahão em tudo.
2 One day Abraham said to the chief servant of his household, the man who was in charge of everything Abraham owned, “Put your hand between my thighs to solemnly promise you will do what I tell you.
E disse Abrahão ao seu servo, o mais velho da casa, que tinha o governo sobre tudo o que possuia: Põe agora a tua mão debaixo da minha coxa,
3 Knowing that Yahweh God [who created] the heavens and the earth is listening, promise that you will not get a wife for my son, Isaac, from the women here in Canaan.
Para que eu te faça jurar pelo Senhor Deus dos céus e Deus da terra, que não tomarás para meu filho mulher das filhas dos cananeos no meio dos quaes eu habito,
4 Instead, go back to my country and to my relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac from among them.”
Mas que irás á minha terra e á minha parentela, e d'ahi tomarás mulher para meu filho Isaac.
5 The servant asked him, “If I find a woman among your relatives, what if she is not willing to come back with me to this land? Shall I take your son back there to the country you came from, [so he can find a wife and live there]?”
E disse-lhe o servo: Porventura não quererá seguir-me a mulher a esta terra. Farei pois tornar o teu filho á terra d'onde saiste?
6 Abraham replied to him, “No! Be certain that you don’t take my son there!
E Abrahão lhe disse: Guarda-te, que não faças lá tornar o meu filho.
7 Yahweh God, who created the heavens, brought me here. He brought me from my father’s household, and from the land where my relatives lived. He spoke to me and made a solemn promise to me, saying, ‘I will give this land [of Canaan] to your descendants.’ He will send an angel who will go there ahead of you, and enable you to get a wife for my son [there and bring her to live here].
O Senhor, Deus dos céus, que me tomou da casa de meu pae e da terra da minha parentela, e que me fallou, e que me jurou, dizendo: Á tua semente darei esta terra: Elle enviará o seu anjo adiante da tua face, para que tomes mulher de lá para meu filho.
8 But if the woman you find will not come back with you, you are free to disregard the promise you are making. The only thing that you must not do is to take my son to live there!”
Se a mulher, porém, não quizer seguir-te, serás livre d'este meu juramento; sómente não faças lá tornar a meu filho.
9 So the servant put his hand between Abraham’s thighs and made a solemn promise about the matter.
Então poz o servo a sua mão debaixo da coxa de Abrahão seu senhor, e jurou-lhe sobre este negocio.
10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and loaded them with all kinds of goods that his master gave him to take along. Then he left to go to Aram-Naharaim, [which is in (northern Mesopotamia/Syria)]. He arrived in Nahor city.
E o servo tomou dez camelos, dos camelos do seu senhor, e partiu, pois que toda a fazenda de seu senhor estava em sua mão, e levantou-se e partiu para Mesopotamia, para a cidade de Nahor,
11 It was late in the afternoon, at the time when the women go to the well to get water, when he arrived there. He made the camels kneel down near the well, which was outside the city.
E fez ajoelhar os camelos fóra da cidade, junto a um poço d'agua, pela tarde, ao tempo que as moças sahiam a tirar agua.
12 The servant prayed, “Yahweh God whom my master Abraham worships, enable me to be successful today! Act kindly to my master, Abraham!
E disse: Ó Senhor, Deus de meu senhor Abrahão! dá-me hoje bom encontro, e faze beneficencia ao meu senhor Abrahão!
13 Listen to me. I am standing near a well of water, and the young women of the city are coming to get water.
Eis que eu estou em pé junto á fonte d'agua, e as filhas dous varões d'esta cidade saem para tirar agua;
14 I am asking you this: ‘I will say to some girl, “Please lower your jar so that I may drink some water.” If she says, “Drink some, and I will draw some water [from the well] for your camels, too,” I will know that she is the woman whom you chose to be a wife for your servant, Isaac, and I will know that you have been kind to my master.’”
Seja pois que a donzella, a quem eu disser: Abaixa agora o teu cantaro para que eu beba; e ella disser: Bebe, e tambem darei de beber aos teus camelos; esta seja a quem designaste ao teu servo Isaac, e que eu conheça n'isso que fizeste beneficencia a meu senhor.
15 Before he finished praying, [amazingly], Rebekah arrived there, carrying a jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s younger brother Nahor.
E succedeu que, antes que elle acabasse de fallar, eis que Rebecca, que havia nascido a Bethuel, filho de Milcah, mulher de Nahor, irmão de Abrahão, sahia com o seu cantaro sobre o seu hombro.
16 She was very beautiful and still a virgin. She went down to the edge of the well, filled her jar with water, and then came back up.
E a donzella era mui formosa á vista, virgem, a quem varão não havia conhecido: e desceu á fonte, e encheu o seu cantaro, e subiu.
17 Abraham’s servant immediately ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”
Então o servo correu-lhe ao encontro, e disse: Ora deixa-me beber uma pouca d'agua do teu cantaro.
18 She replied, “Drink some, sir!” She lowered her jar from her shoulder to her hands and gave him a drink.
E ella disse: Bebe, meu senhor. E apressou-se, e abaixou o seu cantaro sobre a sua mão, e deu-lhe de beber.
19 After she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also get some water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”
E, acabando ella de lhe dar de beber, disse: Tirarei tambem agua para os teus camelos, até que acabem de beber.
20 She quickly emptied the water in her jar into the trough [for giving water to animals], and then ran back to the well, and kept getting water for all the camels.
E apressou-se, e vasou o seu cantaro na pia, e correu outra vez ao poço para tirar agua, e tirou para todos os seus camelos.
21 The servant just watched her, without saying anything. He wanted to know if Yahweh had caused his trip to be successful or not.
E o varão estava admirado de vel-a, calando-se, para saber se o Senhor havia prosperado a sua jornada, ou não.
22 Finally, after the camels finished drinking, the servant took out a gold nose ring that weighed (two ounces/6 grams), and two large gold bracelets for her arms, and gave them to Rebekah [and told her to put them on].
E aconteceu que, acabando os camelos de beber, tomou o varão um pendente de oiro de meio siclo de peso, e duas pulseiras para as suas mãos, do peso de dez siclos de oiro.
23 Then he said, “Tell me whose daughter you are. Also, tell me, is there room in your father’s house for me and my men to sleep there tonight?”
E disse: De quem és filha? faze-m'o saber, peço-te; ha tambem em casa de teu pae logar para nós pousarmos?
24 She replied, “My father’s name is Bethuel. He is the son of Nahor and his wife Milcah.
E ella lhe disse: Eu sou a filha de Bethuel, filho de Milcah, o qual ella pariu a Nahor.
25 Yes, we have room where you all can sleep tonight, and we also have plenty of straw and grain to feed the camels.”
Disse-lhe mais: Tambem temos palha e muito pasto, e logar para passar a noite.
26 The servant bowed and worshiped Yahweh.
Então inclinou-se aquelle varão, e adorou ao Senhor,
27 He said, “I thank you, Yahweh God, whom my master Abraham worships. You have continued to be kind and faithful to my master. You led me on this journey straight/directly to the house of my master’s relatives!”
E disse: Bemdito seja o Senhor Deus de meu senhor Abrahão, que não retirou a sua beneficencia e a sua verdade de meu senhor: quanto a mim, o Senhor me guiou no caminho á casa dos irmãos de meu senhor.
28 The girl ran and told everyone in her mother’s household about what had happened.
E a donzella correu, e fez saber estas coisas na casa de sua mãe.
29 Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban went quickly to Abraham’s servant, who was still by the well.
E Rebecca tinha um irmão, cujo nome era Labão; e Labão correu ao encontro d'aquelle varão á fonte.
30 He was surprised to have seen the bracelets on his sister’s arms and the nose ring and to have heard Rebekah tell what the man had said to her. So he went out and saw the man standing near the camels, close to the well.
E aconteceu que, quando elle viu o pendente, e as pulseiras sobre as mãos de sua irmã, e quando ouviu as palavras de sua irmã Rebecca, que dizia: Assim me fallou aquelle varão; veiu o varão, e eis que estava em pé junto aos camelos á fonte.
31 He said to the man, “You who have been blessed by Yahweh, come with me! (Why are standing out here?/You should not keep standing out here!) [RHQ] I have prepared a room for you in the house, and a place for the camels to stay.”
E disse: Entra, bemdito do Senhor, porque estarás fóra? pois eu já preparei a casa, e o logar para os camelos.
32 So the servant went to the house, and Laban’s servants unloaded the camels, and brought straw and grain for the camels, and water for him and the men with him to wash their feet.
Então veiu aquelle varão á casa, e desataram os camelos, e deram palha e pasto aos camelos, e agua para lavar os pés d'elle e os pés dos varões que estavam com elle.
33 They set food in front of him for him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I tell you (what I need to tell you/why I have come).” So Laban said, “Tell us!”
Depois pozeram de comer diante d'elle; elle porém disse: Não comerei, até que tenha dito as minhas palavras. E elle disse: Falla.
34 So the servant said, “I am Abraham’s servant.
Então disse: Eu sou o servo d'Abrahão.
35 Yahweh has greatly blessed my master so that he has become very rich. Yahweh has given him many sheep and cattle, a lot of gold and silver, male and female servants, camels and donkeys.
E o Senhor abençoou muito o meu senhor, de maneira que foi engrandecido, e deu-lhe ovelhas e vaccas, e prata e oiro, e servos e servas, e camelos e jumentos.
36 My master’s wife, Sarah, bore a son for him when she was very old, and my master has given to his son everything he owns.
E Sarah, a mulher do meu senhor, pariu um filho a meu senhor depois da sua velhice, e elle deu-lhe tudo quanto tem.
37 My master made me solemnly promise, saying, ‘Do not get a wife for my son from the women here in Canaan.
E meu senhor me fez jurar, dizendo: Não tomarás mulher para meu filho das filhas dos cananeos, em cuja terra habito:
38 Instead, go back to my father’s family, to my own clan, and get from them a wife for my son.’
Irás porém á casa de meu pae, e á minha familia, e tomarás mulher para meu filho.
39 Then I asked my master, ‘What shall I do if the woman you show me will not come back with me?’
Então disse eu ao meu senhor: Porventura não me seguirá a mulher.
40 He replied, ‘Yahweh, whom I have always obeyed [MTY], will send his angel with you, and he will cause your journey to be successful, with the result that you can get a wife for my son from my clan, from my father’s family.
E elle me disse: O Senhor, em cuja presença tenho andado, enviará o seu anjo comtigo, e prosperará o teu caminho, para que tomes mulher para meu filho da minha familia e da casa de meu pae:
41 But if my clan refuses to allow her to return with you, you will be freed from being cursed because of not obeying me.’
Então serás livre do meu juramento, quando fores á minha familia; e se não t'a derem, livre serás do meu juramento.
42 “When I came today to the well, I prayed, ‘Yahweh God whom my master, Abraham worships, if you are willing, please allow this journey of mine to be successful.
E hoje cheguei á fonte, e disse: Ó Senhor, Deus de meu senhor Abrahão! se tu agora prosperas o meu caminho, no qual eu ando,
43 Listen to me. I am standing beside a well. A young woman may come to draw water. I will say to her, “Please, give me a little water to drink from your jar.”
Eis que estou junto á fonte d'agua: seja pois que a donzella que sair para tirar agua e á qual eu disser: Ora dá-me uma pouca d'agua do teu cantaro;
44 If she says to me, “Certainly, drink some! And I will also draw some water for your camels,” that will be the woman whom you have chosen for my master’s son!’
E ella me disser: Bebe tu tambem, e tambem tirarei agua para os teus camelos; esta seja a mulher que o Senhor designou ao filho de meu senhor.
45 Before I finished praying, [amazingly], Rebekah approached with her water jar on her shoulder. She went down to the well and got some water. I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink!’
E antes que eu acabasse de fallar no meu coração, eis que Rebecca sahia com o seu cantaro sobre o seu hombro, e desceu á fonte, e tirou agua; e eu lhe disse: Ora dá-me de beber.
46 She quickly lowered her jar and said, ‘Drink some! And I will draw water [from the well] for your camels, too.’ So I drank some water, and she also got water for the camels.
E ella se apressou, e abaixou o seu cantaro de sobre si, e disse: Bebe, e tambem darei de beber aos teus camelos; e bebi, e ella deu tambem de beber aos camelos.
47 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor and his wife, Milcah.’ I had [a ring and bracelets with me, and] I put the ring in her nose and put the bracelets on her arms.
Então lhe perguntei, e disse: De quem és filha? E ella disse: Filha de Bethuel, filho de Nahor, que lhe pariu Milcah. Então eu puz o pendente no seu rosto, e as pulseiras sobre as suas mãos;
48 Then I bowed and worshiped Yahweh, and I thanked Yahweh God, the one my master Abraham worships, the one who led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master’s brother to be a wife for my master’s son.
E inclinando-me adorei ao Senhor, e bemdisse ao Senhor, Deus do meu senhor Abrahão, que me havia encaminhado pelo caminho da verdade, para tomar a filha do irmão de meu senhor para seu filho.
49 Now, if you are kind and faithful to my master, tell me that you will do what I am asking. If you will not do that, tell me that also, so I may know what to do [MTY].”
Agora pois, se vós haveis de fazer beneficencia e verdade a meu senhor, fazei-m'o saber; e se não tambem m'o fazei saber, para que eu olhe á mão direita, ou á esquerda.
50 Laban and Bethuel answered, “It is clear that Yahweh has caused this to happen. So we two cannot say anything more.
Então responderam Labão e Bethuel, e disseram: Do Senhor procedeu este negocio; não podemos fallar-te mal ou bem.
51 Rebekah is here in front of you. Take her and go, and let her be a wife for your master’s son, just as Yahweh has indicated.”
Eis que, Rebecca está diante da tua face; toma-a, e vae-te; seja a mulher do filho de teu senhor, como tem dito o Senhor.
52 When Abraham’s servant heard these words, he bowed down to the ground to [thank] Yahweh.
E aconteceu que, o servo de Abrahão, ouvindo as suas palavras, inclinou-se á terra diante do Senhor,
53 Then the servant brought out silver and gold jewelry and clothes, and gave them to Rebekah. And he gave gifts to her brother Laban and to her mother.
E tirou o servo vasos de prata e vasos de oiro, e vestidos, e deu-os a Rebecca; tambem deu coisas preciosas a seu irmão e a sua mãe.
54 Then they ate a meal together. The men who were with Abraham’s servant also slept there that night. The next morning, the servant said, “Allow me now to return to my master.”
Então comeram e beberam, elle e os varões que com elle estavam, e passaram a noite. E levantaram-se pela manhã, e disse: Deixae-me ir a meu senhor.
55 But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl remain with us for about ten days. After that, you may take her and go.”
Então disseram seu irmão e sua mãe: Fique a donzella comnosco alguns dias, ou pelo menos dez dias, depois irá.
56 But he replied to them, “Yahweh has made my journey successful, so do not detain me. Let me take her back to my master now!”
Elle porém lhes disse: Não me detenhaes, pois o Senhor tem prosperado o meu caminho; deixae-me partir, que eu volte a meu senhor.
57 They said, “Let’s call Rebekah and ask her what she wants to do.” [MTY]
E disseram: Chamemos a donzella, e perguntemos-lh'o.
58 So they summoned Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man now?” She replied, “Yes, I will go.”
E chamaram a Rebecca, e disseram-lhe: Irás tu com este varão? Ella respondeu: Irei.
59 So they allowed Rebekah, a woman who had taken care of her when she was very young, Abraham’s servant, and the men who had come with him. to go.
Então despediram a Rebecca sua irmã, e sua ama, e o servo de Abrahão, e seus varões
60 Before they all left, they [asked God to] bless Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, we ask that Yahweh will cause you to have millions of descendants, and allow them to completely defeat [MET] all those that hate them.”
E abençoaram a Rebecca, e disseram-lhe: O nossa irmã, sejas tu em milhares de milhares, e que a tua semente possua a porta de seus aborrecedores!
61 Then Rebekah and her maid servants got ready and got on their camels and went with Abraham’s servant.
E Rebecca se levantou com as suas moças, e subiram sobre os camelos, e seguiram o varão: e tomou aquelle servo a Rebecca, e partiu.
62 At that time, Isaac was living in the Negev desert. He had gone there from Beer-Lahai-Roi.
Ora Isaac vinha d'onde se vem do poço de Lahai-roi; porque habitava na terra do sul.
63 One evening he went out into the field to meditate as he walked. He looked up and [was surprised to] see some camels coming.
E Isaac saira a orar no campo, sobre a tarde: e levantou os seus olhos, e olhou, e eis que os camelos vinham.
64 Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got off the camel,
Rebecca tambem levantou seus olhos, e viu a Isaac, e lançou-se do camelo.
65 and asked the servant, “Who is that man who is approaching?” The servant replied, “That is Isaac, my master, [the man you will be marrying].” So she took her veil and covered her face, which was the custom for a woman who was about to be married.
E disse ao servo: Quem é aquelle varão que vem pelo campo ao nosso encontro? E o servo disse: Este é meu senhor. Então tomou ella o véu, e cobriu-se.
66 The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.
E o servo contou a Isaac todas as coisas que fizera.
67 Then Isaac took Rebekah into the tent that belonged to his mother, Sarah, and she became his wife. And he loved her. So Isaac was comforted about his mother’s death.
E Isaac trouxe-a para a tenda de sua mãe Sarah, e tomou a Rebecca, e foi-lhe por mulher, e amou-a. Assim Isaac foi consolado depois da morte de sua mãe.
