Judges 18
1 In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
N'aquelles dias não havia rei em Israel: e nos mesmos dias a tribu dos daneos buscava para si herança para habitar; porquanto até áquelle dia entre as tribus d'Israel lhe não havia caido em herança bastante sorte
2 The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
E enviaram os filhos de Dan da sua tribu cinco homens dos seus confins, homens valorosos, de Zora e de Estaol, a espiar e rastejar a terra; e lhes disseram: Ide, rastejae a terra. E vieram á montanha d'Ephraim, até á casa de Micah, e passaram ali a noite.
3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”
E quando elles estavam junto da casa de Micah, conheceram a voz do mancebo, do levita; e chegaram-se para lá, e lhe disseram: Quem te trouxe aqui, que fazes aqui, e que é o que tens aqui?
4 He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”
E elle lhes disse: Assim e assim me tem feito Micah; pois me tem alugado, e eu lhe sirvo de sacerdote.
5 They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”
Então lhe disseram: Ora pergunta a Deus, para que possamos saber se prosperará o caminho que levamos.
6 The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”
E disse-lhes o sacerdote: Ide em paz; o caminho que levardes está perante o Senhor.
7 Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.
Então foram-se aquelles cinco homens, e vieram a Lais; e viram que o povo que havia no meio d'ella estava seguro, conforme ao costume dos sidonios, quieto e confiado; nem havia possessor algum do reino que por causa alguma envergonhasse a alguem n'aquella terra: tambem estavam longe doa sidonios, e não tinham que fazer com ninguem.
8 They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
Então voltaram a seus irmãos, a Zora e a Estaol: e seus irmãos lhes disseram: Que dizeis vós?
9 They said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
E elles disseram: Levantae-vos, e subamos a elles; porque examinámos a terra, e eis que é muitissimo boa; pois estareis tranquillos? não sejaes preguiçosos em irdes para entrar a possuir esta terra.
10 When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
Quando lá chegardes, vereis a um povo confiado, e a terra é larga de extensão; porque Deus vol-a entregou na mão; logar em que não ha falta de coisa alguma que ha na terra.
11 The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
Então partiram d'ali, da tribu dos daneos, de Zora e d'Estaol, seiscentos homens armados de armas de guerra.
12 They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
E subiram, e acamparam-se em Kiriath-jearim, em Judah; pelo que chamaram a este logar Mahaneh-dan, até ao dia de hoje; eis que está por detraz de Kiriath-jearim.
13 They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
E d'ali passaram á montanha d'Ephraim; e vieram até á casa de Micah.
14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”
Então responderam os cinco homens, que foram espiar a terra de Lais, e disseram a seus irmãos: Sabeis vós tambem que n'aquellas casas ha um ephod, e terafins, e imagem de esculptura e de fundição? vêde pois agora o que haveis de fazer
15 They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
Então foram-se para lá, e vieram á casa do mancebo, o levita, em casa de Micah, e o saudaram.
16 The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
E os seiscentos homens, que eram dos filhos de Dan, armados de suas armas de guerra, ficaram á entrada da porta.
17 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
Porém subindo os cinco homens, que foram espiar a terra, entraram n'ella, e tomaram a imagem d'esculptura, o ephod, e os terafins, e a imagem de fundição, ficando o sacerdote em pé á entrada da porta, com os seiscentos homens que estavam armados com as armas de guerra.
18 When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
Entrando elles pois em casa de Micah, e tomando a imagem de esculptura, e o ephod, e os terafins, e a imagem de fundição, disse-lhes o sacerdote: Que estaes fazendo?
19 They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
E elles lhe disseram: Cala-te, põe a mão na bocca, e vem comnosco, e sê-nos por pae e sacerdote: é-te melhor que sejas sacerdote da casa d'um só homem, do que ser sacerdote d'uma tribu e d'uma geração em Israel
20 The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.
Então alegrou-se o coração do sacerdote, e tomou o ephod, e os terafins, e a imagem de esculptura: e entrou no meio do povo.
21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.
Assim viraram, e partiram: e os meninos, e o gado, e a bagagem puzeram diante de si.
22 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan.
E, estando já longe da casa de Micah, os homens que estavam nas casas junto á casa de Micah, se convocaram, e alcançaram os filhos de Dan.
23 As they called to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?”
E clamaram após dos filhos de Dan, os quaes viraram os seus rostos, e disseram a Micah: Que tens, que assim te convocaste?
24 He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’”
Então elle disse: Os meus deuses, que eu fiz, me tomastes, juntamente com o sacerdote, e vos fostes; que mais me fica agora? Como pois me dizeis: Que é o que tens?
25 The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.”
Porém os filhos de Dan lhe disseram: Não nos faças ouvir a tua voz, para que porventura homens de animo amargoso não se lancem sobre vós, e tu percas a tua vida, e a vida dos da tua casa
26 The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
Assim seguiram o seu caminho os filhos de Dan: e Micah, vendo que eram mais fortes do que elle, voltou, e tornou-se a sua casa.
27 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.
Elles pois tomaram o que Micah tinha feito, e o sacerdote que tivera, e vieram a Lais, a um povo quieto e confiado, e os feriram ao fio da espada, e queimaram a cidade a fogo.
28 There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city and lived in it.
E ninguem houve que os livrasse, porquanto estavam longe de Sidon, e não tinham que fazer com ninguem, e a cidade estava no valle que está junto a Beth-rechob: depois reedificaram a cidade e habitaram n'ella.
29 They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.
E chamaram o nome da cidade Dan, conforme ao nome de Dan, seu pae, que nascera a Israel: sendo porém d'antes o nome d'esta cidade Lais.
30 The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
E os filhos de Dan levantaram para si aquella imagem de esculptura: e Jonathan, filho de Gerson, o filho de Manasseh, elle e seus filhos foram sacerdotes da tribu dos daneos, ate ao dia do captiveiro da terra.
31 So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.
Assim pois a imagem d'esculptura que fizera Micah, estabeleceram entre si, todos os dias que a casa de Deus esteve em Silo.
