< Nehemiah 13 >
1 On that day, when someone read to the people parts of the laws [that God gave] to Moses, they read where it was written that no one from the Ammon people-group or the Moab people-group was ever to be allowed to be with God’s people while they were gathered together [to worship].
Naquele dia leu-se no livro de Moisés, aos ouvidos do povo: e achou-se escrito nele que os ammonitas e os moabitas não entrassem jamais na congregação de Deus
2 The reason for that was that the people of Ammon and the people of Moab did not give/sell any food or water to the Israelis [while the Israelis were going through their areas after they left Egypt]. Instead, the people of Ammon and Moab paid money to Balaam in order that he would curse the Israelis. But God commanded Balaam to bless the people, not to curse them.
Porquanto não sairam ao encontro dos filhos de Israel com pão e água; antes alugaram contra eles a Balaão para os amaldiçoar; ainda que o nosso Deus converteu a maldição em benção.
3 So when the people heard these laws [being read to them], they sent away all the people whose ancestors had come from other countries.
Sucedeu pois que, ouvindo eles esta lei, apartaram de Israel toda a mistura.
4 Previously, Eliashib the priest had been appointed to be in charge of the storerooms in the temple. He was a relative of [our enemy] Tobiah.
E de antes Eliasib, sacerdote, que presidia sobre a câmara da casa do nosso Deus, se tinha aparentado com Tobias;
5 He allowed Tobiah to use a large room in which they had previously stored the grain offerings and the incense, the equipment that is used in the temple, the offerings [that the people had brought] for the priests, and the tithes of grain and wine and [olive] oil that [God] had commanded the people to bring to the [other] descendants of Levi, and to the temple musicians, and to the temple guards.
E fizera-lhe uma câmara grande, onde de antes se metiam as ofertas de manjares, o incenso, e os vasos, e os dízimos do grão, do mosto, e do azeite, que se ordenaram para os levitas, e cantores, e porteiros, como também a oferta alçada para os sacerdotes.
6 While [Tobias was using that room], I was not in Jerusalem, because in the 32nd year that Artaxerxes was the king of Babylonia, I went back there to report to him. After a while I requested the king to allow me to return to Jerusalem, [and he allowed me to go].
Porém em tudo isto não estava eu em Jerusalém; porque no ano trinta e dois de Artaxerxes, rei de Babilônia, vim eu ter com o rei; mas ao cabo de alguns dias tornei a alcançar licença do rei
7 When I arrived in Jerusalem, I found out that Eliashib had done an evil thing by allowing Tobiah to use a room in God’s temple.
E vim a Jerusalém, e entendi o mal que Eliasib fizera para Tobias, fazendo-lhe uma câmara nos pátios da casa de Deus.
8 I became very angry, and I threw out of that room everything that belonged to Tobiah.
O que muito me desagradou: de sorte que lancei todos os móveis da casa de Tobias fora da câmara.
9 Then I commanded [that they perform a ritual] to make the rooms (pure/acceptable to God) again. And I also ordered that all the equipment used in the temple and all the grain offerings and incense should be put in that room again.
E, ordenando-o eu, purificaram as câmaras: e tornei a trazer ali os vasos da casa de Deus, com as ofertas de manjares, e o incenso.
10 I also found out that the temple musicians and [other] descendants of Levi had left Jerusalem and returned to their fields/farms, because the Israeli people had not been bringing to them the food [that they needed].
Também entendi que o quinhão dos levitas se lhes não dava: de maneira que os levitas e os cantores, que faziam a obra, tinham fugido cada um para a sua terra.
11 So I rebuked the officials, saying to them, “(Why have you not taken care of the work in the temple?/It is disgraceful that you have not taken care of the work in the temple.)” [RHQ] So I brought the descendants of Levi and the musicians back to the temple, and told them to do their work there again.
Então contendi com os magistrados, e disse: Porque se desamparou a casa de Deus? Porém eu os ajuntei, e os restaurei no seu posto.
12 Then all the people of Judah again started to bring to the temple storerooms their tithes of grain, wine, and [olive] oil.
Então todo o Judá trouxe os dízimos do grão, e do mosto, e do azeite aos celeiros.
13 I appointed these men to be in charge of the storerooms: Shelemiah, who was a priest; Zadok, who knew the Jewish laws very well; and Pedaiah, a descendant of Levi. I appointed Hanan, who is the son of Zaccur and grandson of Mattaniah, to assist them. I knew that I could trust these men while they distributed those offerings to their fellow workers.
E por tesoureiros pus sobre os celeiros a Selemias o sacerdote, e a Zadok o escrivão, e a Pedaias, dentre os levitas; e à mão deles Hanan, filho de Zacchur, o filho de Matthanias: porque se tinham achado fieis: e se lhes encarregou a eles a distribuição para seus irmãos.
14 My God, do not forget all these good things that I have faithfully done for your temple and for the work that is done there!
(Por isto, Deus meu, lembra-te de mim: e não risques as minhas beneficências que eu fiz à casa de meu Deus e às suas guardas.)
15 During that time, I saw some people in Judea [who were working] on the Sabbath day. [Some were] pressing grapes [to make wine]. Others were putting grain, [bags of] wine, [baskets of] grapes, figs, and many [HYP] other things, on their donkeys and taking them into Jerusalem. I warned them that they should not sell things to the people of Judea on Sabbath days.
Naqueles dias vi em Judá os que pisavam lagares ao sábado e traziam feixes que carregavam sobre os jumentos; como também vinho, uvas e figos, e toda a casta de cargas, que traziam a Jerusalém no dia de sábado; e protestei contra eles no dia em que vendiam mantimentos.
16 I also saw some people from Tyre [city] who were living there in Jerusalem who were bringing fish and other things [into Jerusalem] to sell to the people of Judea on the Sabbath day.
Também tyrios habitavam dentro, que traziam peixe, e toda a mercadoria, que no sábado vendiam aos filhos de Judá, e em Jerusalém.
17 So I rebuked the Jewish leaders and told them, “This is [RHQ] a very evil thing that you are doing! You are causing the Sabbath days to be unholy.
E contendi com os nobres de Judá, e lhes disse: Que mal é este que fazeis, e profanais o dia de sábado?
18 Your ancestors did [RHQ] things like that, so God punished them, and as a result, this city was destroyed! And now by causing the Sabbath day to be unholy, you are going to cause God to be angry with us Israeli people [and punish us] more!”
Porventura não fizeram vossos pais assim, e nosso Deus não trouxe todo este mal sobre nós e sobre esta cidade? e vós ainda mais acrescentais o ardor de sua ira sobre Israel, profanando o sábado.
19 So I ordered that at (the beginning of every Sabbath day/every Friday evening) they should shut the gates of the city before it became dark. I also ordered that they should not open the gates until (the Sabbath day was ended [the next day]/Saturday evening). Then [each Sabbath day] I put some of my men at the gates, so they would make sure that nothing to sell was brought into the city on that day.
Sucedeu pois que, dando as portas de Jerusalém já sombra antes do sábado, ordenando-o eu, as portas se fecharam; e mandei que as não abrissem até passado o sábado; e pus às portas alguns de meus moços, para que carga nenhuma entrasse no dia de sábado.
20 One or two times merchants [DOU] stayed outside of the city on (Friday night/[the night before the Sabbath day]).
Então os negociantes e os vendedores de toda a mercadoria passaram a noite fora de Jerusalém, uma ou duas vezes.
21 I warned them, “It is useless [RHQ] for you to stay here outside the walls [on Friday night]! If you do this again, I will tell my men to arrest you!” So after that, they did not come on Sabbath days.
Protestei pois contra eles, e lhes disse: Porque passais a noite defronte do muro? se outra vez o fizerdes, hei de lançar mão de vós: daquele tempo em diante não vieram no sábado.
22 I also commanded the descendants of Levi to [perform the ritual to] purify themselves and to guard the city gates, to make sure that the Sabbath was kept holy [by not allowing merchants to enter it on Sabbath days]. My God, do not forget this also that I [have done for you]! And because of your faithfully loving me, allow me to continue to live [many more years]!
Também disse aos levitas que se purificassem, e viessem guardar as portas, para santificar o sábado. (nisto também, Deus meu, lembra-te de mim; e perdoa-me segundo a abundância da tua benignidade.)
23 During that time, I also found out that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod [city], and from [the] Ammon and Moab [people-groups].
Vi também naqueles dias judeus que tinham casado com mulheres asdoditas, ammonitas, e moabitas.
24 The result was that half of their children spoke the language that people in Ashdod speak or some other language, and they didn’t know how to speak our language.
E seus filhos falavam meio asdotita, e não podiam falar judaico, senão segundo a língua de cada povo.
25 So I rebuked those men, and I [asked God to] curse them, and I beat them and pulled out [some of] their hair. Then I forced them to solemnly promise, knowing that God [MTY] was [listening], that they would never again marry foreigners, and never allow their children to marry foreigners.
E contendi com eles, e os amaldiçoei e espanquei alguns deles, e lhes arranquei os cabelos, e os fiz jurar por Deus, dizendo: Não dareis mais vossas filhas a seus filhos, e não tomareis mais suas filhas, nem para vossos filhos nem para vós mesmos.
26 [I said to them], “Solomon, the king of Israel, sinned [RHQ] as a result of [marrying] foreign women. He was greater than any of the kings of other nations. God loved him, and caused him to become the king of all the Israeli people, but his foreign wives caused even him to sin.
Porventura não pecou nisto Salomão, rei de Israel, não havendo entre muitas gentes rei semelhante a ele, e sendo amado de seu Deus, e pondo-o Deus rei sobre todo o Israel? e contudo as mulheres estranhas o fizeram pecar.
27 [Do you think that] we should do what you have done, and disobey our God by marrying foreign women [who worship idols]? [RHQ]”
E dar-vos-íamos nós ouvidos, para fazermos todo este grande mal, prevaricando contra o nosso Deus, casando com mulheres estranhas?
28 One of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the Supreme Priest, had married the daughter of [our enemy] Sanballat, from Beth-Horon [town]. So I forced Jehoiada’s son to leave Jerusalem.
Também um dos filhos de Joiada, filho de Eliasib, o sumo sacerdote, era genro de Sanballat, o horonita, pelo que o afugentei de mim.
29 My God, do not forget that those people [who have married foreign women] have caused it to be a shame/disgrace to be a priest, and have caused people to despise the agreement that you made with the priests and with the [other] descendants of Levi [who help the priests])!
Lembra-te deles, Deus meu, pois contaminaram o sacerdócio, como também o concerto do sacerdócio e dos levitas.
30 I did all that to make sure that there were no more foreign people among the [Israeli] people [who would encourage them to worship idols]. I also established regulations for the priests and [other] descendants of Levi, in order that they would know what work they should do.
Assim os alimpei de todo o estranho, e ordenei as guardas dos sacerdotes e dos levitas, cada um na sua obra.
31 I also arranged for people to bring the firewood [that was needed to burn on the altar, as Moses had declared] that we should [do]. I also arranged for the people to bring the first part of what they harvested [each year]. My God, do not forget [that] I [have done all these things], and bless me [for doing them]!
Como também para com as ofertas da lenha em tempos determinados, e para com as primícias: lembra-te de mim, Deus meu, para bem.