Gênesis 28
1 E Isaac chamou a Jacob, e abençoou-o, e ordenou-lhe, e disse-lhe: Não tomes mulher de entre as filhas de Canaan:
Then Isaac summoned Jacob, and gave him a blessing. He told him, “Do not marry a woman of the Canaan people-group.
2 Levanta-te, vae a Paddan-aram, á casa de Bethuel, pae de tua mãe, e toma de lá uma mulher das filhas de Labão, irmão de tua mãe;
Instead, go right away to Paddan-Aram [in northwest Mesopotamia], to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Ask one of the daughters of your mother’s brother Laban to marry you.
3 E Deus Todo-poderoso te abençoe, e te faça fructificar, e te multiplique, para que sejas uma multidão de povos;
I will pray that God Almighty will bless you, and enable you to [get married and] have many descendants, in order that they will become many people-groups.
4 E te dê abenção de Abrahão, a ti e á tua semente comtigo, para que em herança possuas a terra de tuas peregrinações, que Deus deu a Abrahão
I also will pray that he will bless you and your descendants by enabling you to possess/seize the land in which you are now living as a foreigner, the land that God promised to give to [my father] Abraham and his descendants.”
5 Assim enviou Isaac a Jacob, o qual se foi a Paddan-aram, a Labão, filho de Bethuel arameo, irmão de Rebecca, mãe de Jacob e de Esaú.
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-Aram, to live with Rebekah’s brother Laban, the son of Bethuel, who belonged to the Aram people-group.
6 Vendo pois Esaú que Isaac abençoára a Jacob, e o enviára a Paddan-aram, para tomar mulher para si d'ali, e que, abençoando-o, lhe ordenara, dizendo: Não tomes mulher das filhas de Canaan;
Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and then sent him to Paddan-Aram. He also found out that when he blessed Isaac, he told him, “Do not marry a woman of the Canaan people-group,”
7 E que Jacob obedecera a seu pae e a sua mãe, e se fôra a Paddan-aram;
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and had gone to Paddan-Aram.
8 Vendo tambem Esaú que as filhas de Canaan eram más aos olhos de Isaac seu pae,
Esau also realized that his father Isaac did not approve of women from the Canaan people-group.
9 Foi-se Esaú a Ishmael, e tomou para si por mulher, além das suas mulheres, a Mahalath filha de Ishmael, filho de Abrahão, irmã de Nebajoth.
Because of that, Esau went to see his uncle Ishmael, and married Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael. Mahalath was the sister of Nabaioth and the granddaughter of Abraham.
10 Partiu pois Jacob de Berseba, e foi-se a Haran;
Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and started walking along the road to Haran.
11 E chegou a um logar onde passou a noite, porque já o sol era posto; e tomou uma das pedras d'aquelle logar, e a poz por sua cabeceira, e deitou-se n'aquelle logar,
When he arrived at a certain place, he stopped there, because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones there and put it under his head to use as a pillow. Then he lay down and slept there.
12 E sonhou: e eis uma escada era posta na terra, cujo topo tocava nos céus: e eis que os anjos de Deus subiam e desciam por ella;
While he was sleeping, he had a dream, in which he [was surprised to] see a stairway. The bottom of the stairway was on the earth and the top was in the sky. Jacob also saw that God’s angels were going up and down the stairway.
13 E eis que o Senhor estava em cima d'ella, e disse: Eu sou o Senhor, o Deus de Abrahão teu pae, e o Deus de Isaac: esta terra, em que estás deitado, t'a darei a ti e á tua semente:
And he [was surprised to] see Yahweh standing at the top of the stairway, saying “I am Yahweh God, whom your grandfather Abraham worshiped, and whom Isaac worships. I will give to you and to your descendants the land on which you are lying.
14 E a tua semente será como o pó da terra, e estender-se-ha ao occidente, e ao oriente, e ao norte, e ao sul, e em ti e na tua semente serão bemditas todas as familias da terra:
Your descendants will be as numerous as the particles of dirt that are on the earth, and their territory will be very large. It will extend in all directions, to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south. And people of all people-groups on earth will receive blessings because of [what happens to] you and to your descendants.
15 E eis que estou comtigo, e te guardarei por onde quer que fores, e te farei tornar a esta terra: porque te não deixarei, até que te haja feito o que te tenho dito.
I will help you and protect you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you; I will continue to do for you all that I have promised to do.”
16 Acordado pois Jacob do seu somno, disse: Na verdade o Senhor está n'este logar; e eu não o sabia.
[During the night], when Jacob woke up from sleeping, he thought, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and until now I was not aware of it!”
17 E temeu, e disse: Quão terrivel é este logar! Este não é outro logar senão a casa de Deus; e este é a porta dos céus.
He was afraid, and he said, “This place is very awesome! This is surely the place where God lives, and this is the entrance to heaven!”
18 Então levantou-se Jacob pela manhã de madrugada, e tomou a pedra que tinha posto por sua cabeceira, e a poz por columna, e derramou azeite em cima d'ella.
In the morning Jacob got up and took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up on its end to show that the place was a holy place. He poured some olive oil on top of the stone [to dedicate it to God].
19 E chamou o nome d'aquelle logar Bethel: o nome porém d'aquella cidade d'antes era Luz.
He named that place Bethel, [which means ‘house of God’.] Previously its name was Luz.
20 E Jacob votou um voto, dizendo: Se Deus fôr commigo, e me guardar n'esta viagem que faço, e me der pão para comer, e vestidos para vestir;
Jacob solemnly promised God, saying, “God, if you will help me and protect me while I am taking this journey, and if you give me enough food to eat and clothes to wear,
21 E eu em paz tornar á casa de meu pae, o Senhor me será por Deus;
in order that I can later return safely to my father’s house, then you, Yahweh, will be the God that I will worship.
22 E esta pedra que tenho posto por columna será casa de Deus; e de tudo quanto me deres, certamente te darei o dizimo.
This stone that I have set up will mark the place where people can worship you. And I will give back to you a tenth of everything that you give to me.”
