Deuteronômio 8
1 Todos os mandamentos que hoje vos ordeno guardareis para os fazer: para que vivaes, e vos multipliqueis, e entreis, e possuaes a terra que o Senhor jurou a vossos paes.
Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.
2 E te lembrarás de todo o caminho, pelo qual o Senhor teu Deus te guiou no deserto estes quarenta annos, para te humilhar, e te tentar, para saber o que estava no teu coração, se guardarias os seus mandamentos, ou não.
And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
3 E te humilhou, e te deixou ter fome, e te sustentou com o manná, que tu não conheceste, nem teus paes o conheceram: para te dar a entender que o homem não viverá só de pão, mas que de tudo o que sae da bocca do Senhor viverá o homem.
And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.
4 Nunca se envelheceu o teu vestido sobre ti, nem se inchou o teu pé estes quarenta annos.
Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.
5 Confessa pois no teu coração que, como um homem castiga a seu filho, assim te castiga o Senhor teu Deus.
Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.
6 E guarda os mandamentos do Senhor teu Deus, para o temer, e andar nos seus caminhos.
Then keep the orders of the Lord your God, fearing him and walking in his ways.
7 Porque o Senhor teu Deus te mette n'uma boa terra, terra de ribeiros d'aguas, de fontes, e d'abysmos, que saem dos valles e das montanhas;
For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;
8 Terra de trigo e cevada, e de vides, e figueiras, e romeiras; terra de oliveiras, abundante de azeite e mel;
A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;
9 Terra em que comerás o pão sem escassez, e nada te faltará n'ella: terra cujas pedras são ferro, e de cujos montes tu cavarás o cobre.
Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.
10 Quando pois tiveres comido, e fores farto, louvarás ao Senhor teu Deus pela boa terra que te deu.
And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.
11 Guarda-te que te esqueças do Senhor teu Deus, não guardando os seus mandamentos, e os seus juizos, e os seus estatutos que hoje te ordeno:
Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:
12 Para que, porventura, havendo tu comido e fores farto, e havendo edificado boas casas, e habitando-as,
And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;
13 E se tiverem augmentado as tuas vaccas e as tuas ovelhas, e se accrescentar a prata e o oiro, e se multiplicar tudo quanto tens,
And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;
14 Se não eleve o teu coração e te esqueças do Senhor teu Deus, que te tirou da terra do Egypto, da casa da servidão;
Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
15 Que te guiou por aquelle grande e terrivel deserto de serpentes ardentes, e d'escorpiões, e de secura, em que não havia agua; e tirou agua para ti da rocha do seixal;
Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
16 Que no deserto te sustentou com manná, que teus paes não conheceram; para te humilhar, e para te provar, para no teu fim te fazer bem;
Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;
17 E digas no teu coração: A minha força, e a fortaleza de meu braço, me adquiriu este poder.
Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
18 Antes te lembrarás do Senhor teu Deus, que elle é o que te dá força para adquirires poder; para confirmar o seu concerto, que jurou a teus paes; como se vê n'este dia.
But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.
19 Será porém que, se de qualquer sorte te esqueceres do Senhor teu Deus, e se ouvires outros deuses, e os servires, e te inclinares perante elles, hoje eu protesto contra vós que certamente perecereis.
And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.
20 Como as gentes que o Senhor destruiu diante de vós, assim vós perecereis: porquanto não querieis obedecer á voz do Senhor vosso Deus.
Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.
