Deuteronômio 12
1 Estes são os estatutos e os juizos que tereis cuidado em fazer na terra que vos deu o Senhor Deus de vossos paes, para a possuir todos os dias que viverdes sobre a terra.
“(I will now tell you again/These, [again], are) the rules and regulations that you must faithfully obey in the land that Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors [worshiped], is giving to you to occupy. You must obey these laws all the time that you are alive.
2 Totalmente destruireis todos os logares, onde as nações que possuireis serviram os seus deuses, sobre as altas montanhas, e sobre os outeiros, e debaixo de toda a arvore verde;
You must destroy all the places where the people-groups that you will expel worship their gods, on the tops of mountains and hills and under big green trees.
3 E derribareis os seus altares, e quebrareis as suas estatuas, e os seus bosques queimareis a fogo, e talhareis as imagens esculpidas dos seus deuses, e apagareis o seu nome d'aquelle logar.
You must tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Completely burn the statues of their goddess Asherah in fires, and chop down their wooden idols, in order that no one will ever worship them [MTY] in those places again.
4 Assim não fareis ao Senhor vosso Deus;
“Do not worship Yahweh like [the people in Canaan worship their gods].
5 Mas o logar que o Senhor vosso Deus escolher de todas as vossas tribus, para ali pôr o seu nome, buscareis para sua habitação, e ali vireis.
Instead, you must go to the place that Yahweh will choose. It will be in the area where one of your tribes will live. That is where you must go to worship Yahweh.
6 E ali trareis os vossos holocaustos, e os vossos sacrificios, e os vossos dizimos, e a offerta alçada da vossa mão, e os vossos votos, e as vossas offertas voluntarias, e os primogenitos das vossas vaccas e das vossas ovelhas.
That is the place where you must bring your sacrifices that will be completely burned on the altar, and your other sacrifices, (your tithes/ten percent of all of your crops), other offerings that you decide to give, and the firstborn animals from your cattle and sheep.
7 E ali comereis perante o Senhor vosso Deus, e vos alegrareis em tudo em que poreis a vossa mão, vós e as vossas casas, no que te abençoar o Senhor teu Deus.
There, in the presence of Yahweh our God, who has [greatly] blessed you, you and your families will eat the good things that you have worked to produce, and you will be happy.
8 Não fareis conforme a tudo o que hoje fazemos aqui, cada qual tudo o que bem parece aos seus olhos.
“[When you are in that land], you must not do some of the things that we have been doing. Until now, you have all been worshiping [Yahweh] the way you wanted to,
9 Porque até agora não entrastes no descanço e na herança que vos dá o Senhor vosso Deus
because you have not yet arrived in the land which Yahweh is giving to you, where you will be able to live peacefully.
10 Mas passareis o Jordão, e habitareis na terra que vos fará herdar o Senhor vosso Deus: e vos dará repouso de todos os vossos inimigos em redor, e morareis seguros.
But when you cross the Jordan [River], you will start to live in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you. He will protect you from all your enemies that will surround you, and you will live peacefully/safely.
11 Então haverá um logar que escolherá o Senhor vosso Deus para ali fazer habitar o seu nome; ali trareis tudo o que vos ordeno; os vossos holocaustos, e os vossos sacrificios, e os vossos dizimos, e a offerta alçada da vossa mão, e toda a escolha dos vossos votos que votardes ao Senhor.
“Yahweh will choose one place where he wants you to worship him. That is the place to which you must bring all the offerings that I command you to bring: The sacrifices that must be completely burned [on the altar], your other sacrifices, other offerings that you yourselves decide to give, (your tithes/ten percent of all your crops), and all the special offerings that you will solemnly promise to give to Yahweh.
12 E vos alegrareis perante o Senhor vosso Deus, vós, e vossos filhos, e vossas filhas, e os vossos servos, e as vossas servas, e o levita que está dentro das vossas portas; pois comvosco não tem parte nem herança.
Rejoice there in the presence of Yahweh, along with your children, your male and female servants, and the descendants of Levi who live in your towns. Do not forget that the descendants of Levi will not have their own land, like you will have.
13 Guarda-te, que não offereças os teus holocaustos em todo o logar que vires;
Be sure that you do not offer sacrifices anywhere you want to.
14 Mas no logar que o Senhor escolher n'uma das tuas tribus ali offerecerás os teus holocaustos, e ali farás tudo o que te ordeno.
You must offer them only in the place that Yahweh will choose for you, in an area that belongs to one of your tribes. That is the only place where he wants you to offer sacrifices that will be completely burned [on the altar], and to do the other things that I am commanding you to do [when you worship him].
15 Porém, conforme a todo o desejo da tua alma, degolarás e comerás carne segundo a benção do Senhor teu Deus, que te dá em todas as tuas portas: o immundo e o limpo d'ella comerá; como do corço e do veado:
“However, you will be permitted to kill and eat the meat of your animals in the places where you live. As often as you want to, you may eat the meat of the animals that Yahweh our God will bless you by giving them to you. Those who have done things that cause them to become unacceptable to God and those who have not done things like that may all eat that meat, just like you would eat the meat of a deer or an antelope.
16 Tão sómente o sangue não comereis: sobre a terra o derramareis como agua.
But you must not eat the blood [of any animals]; you must let the blood drain onto the ground [before you cook the meat].
17 Nas tuas portas não poderás comer o dizimo do teu grão, nem do teu mosto, nem do teu azeite, nem as primogenituras das tuas vaccas, nem das tuas ovelhas; nem nenhum dos teus votos, que houveres votado, nem as tuas offertas voluntarias, nem a offerta alçada da tua mão
In the places where you live, you must not eat the things that you are offering [to Yahweh]: You must not eat the (tithes/ten percent) of your grain or of your wine, or of your [olive] oil, or the firstborn of your cattle and sheep, or the offerings that you yourselves decide to give to Yahweh, or any other offerings.
18 Mas o comerás perante o Senhor teu Deus, no logar que escolher o Senhor teu Deus, tu, e teu filho, e a tua filha, e o teu servo, e a tua serva, e o levita que está dentro das tuas portas: e perante o Senhor teu Deus te alegrarás em tudo em que pozeres a tua mão.
Instead, you and your children and your male and female servants and the descendants of Levi who live in your towns must go to the place that he has chosen and eat those things there in the presence of Yahweh. And you should rejoice in the presence of Yahweh about everything that you do.
19 Guarda-te, que não desampares ao levita todos os teus dias na terra.
Be sure that you take care of the descendants of Levi all during the time that you live in your land.
20 Quando o Senhor teu Deus dilatar os teus termos como te disse, e disseres: Comerei carne; porquanto a tua alma tem desejo de comer carne; conforme a todo o desejo da tua alma, comerás carne.
“When Yahweh our God gives you much more land [than you will have when you first occupy it], which is what he has promised to do, and you say ‘I would like some meat to eat’ because you are craving/wanting some meat, you will be permitted to eat meat whenever you want to.
21 Se estiver longe de ti o logar que o Senhor teu Deus escolher para ali pôr o seu nome, então degolarás das tuas vaccas e tuas ovelhas, que o Senhor te tiver dado, como te tenho ordenado; e comerás dentro das tuas portas, conforme a todo o desejo da tua alma.
If the place that Yahweh our God chooses to be the place for you to worship him is far [from where you live], you are permitted to kill some of your cattle or sheep that Yahweh has given to you, and you may eat that meat at the places where you live, just like I have told you to do.
22 Porém, como se come o corço e o veado, assim comerás: o immundo e o limpo juntamente comerão d'elles.
Those who have done things that cause them to become unacceptable to God, and those who have not done things like that, are all permitted to all eat that meat, just like you would eat the meat of a deer or an antelope.
23 Sómente esforça-te para que não comas o sangue: pois o sangue é a vida: pelo que não comerás a vida com a carne
But be sure that you do not eat the blood [of any animal], because it is the blood that sustains life in living beings, and so you must not eat the life along with the meat.
24 Não o comerás: na terra o derramarás como agua.
Do not eat the blood; instead, let it drain onto the ground.
25 Não o comerás; para que bem te succeda a ti, e a teus filhos, depois de ti, quando fizeres o que fôr recto aos olhos do Senhor.
If you obey this command and do what Yahweh says is right [for you to do], things will go well for you and for your descendants.
26 Porém as tuas coisas sanctas que tiveres, e os teus votos tomarás, e virás ao logar que o Senhor escolher.
“But the sacred offerings that Yahweh has told you to give and the other offerings that you yourselves decide to give, you must take to the place that Yahweh will choose.
27 E offerecerás os teus holocaustos, a carne e o sangue sobre o altar do Senhor teu Deus; e o sangue dos teus sacrificios se derramará sobre o altar do Senhor teu Deus; porém a carne comerás.
You must offer there the sacrifices that will be completely burned [on Yahweh’s altar]. You must also offer there the sacrifices from which you may eat some of meat after you [kill the animals and] drain out the blood and some of it is thrown on the [sides of the] altar.
28 Guarda e ouve todas estas palavras que te ordeno, para que bem te succeda a ti e a teus filhos depois de ti para sempre, quando fizeres o que fôr bom e recto aos olhos do Senhor teu Deus.
Faithfully obey all these things that I have commanded you. If you do that, things will go well forever for you and your descendants, because you will be doing what Yahweh our God says is right [for you to do] and what pleases him.
29 Quando o Senhor teu Deus desarraigar de diante de ti as nações, aonde vaes a possuil-as e as possuires e habitares na sua terra,
“When you enter the land that you will occupy, as you advance, Yahweh our God will get rid of the people-groups that live there.
30 Guarda-te, que te não enlaces após ellas, depois que forem destruidas diante de ti; e que não perguntes ácêrca dos seus deuses, dizendo: Assim como serviram estas nações os seus deuses, do mesmo modo tambem farei eu.
After he does that, be sure that you do not [worship the gods] that they have been worshiping, because if you do that, you will be caught in the same trap [that they were caught in] [MET]. Do not ask anyone about those gods, saying, ‘Tell me how they worshiped their gods, in order that I can [worship them] also.’
31 Assim não farás ao Senhor teu Deus: porque tudo o que é abominavel ao Senhor, o que aborrece, fizeram elles a seus deuses: pois até seus filhos e suas filhas queimaram com fogo aos seus deuses.
Do not try to worship Yahweh our God like they have worshiped their gods, because when they worship them, they do disgusting things, things that Yahweh hates. [The worst thing that they do is] that they sacrifice their own children and burn them [on their altars].
32 Tudo o que eu vos ordeno, observareis para fazer; nada lhe diminuirás.
“Be sure to do everything that I have commanded you to do. Do not add anything to these commands, and do not take anything away from them.”
