Gênesis 31

1 Então ouvia as palavras dos filhos de Labão, que diziam: Jacob tem tomado tudo o que era de nosso pae, e do que era de nosso pae fez elle toda esta gloria.

Someone told Jacob that Laban’s sons were complaining and saying, “Jacob has become very rich by taking everything [HYP] that belonged to our father.”

2 Viu tambem Jacob o rosto de Labão, e eis que não era para com elle como d'hontem e d'ante-hontem.

And Jacob noticed that Laban was not acting friendly toward him as he had done before.

3 E disse o Senhor a Jacob: Torna-te á terra dos teus paes, e á tua parentela, e eu serei comtigo.

Then Yahweh said to Jacob, “Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will help you there.”

4 Então enviou Jacob, e chamou a Rachel e a Leah ao campo, ao seu rebanho,

So Jacob sent a message to Rachel and Leah, telling them to come out to the pastures where his flocks of sheep and goats were.

5 E disse-lhes: Vejo que o rosto de vosso pae para commigo não é como d'hontem e d'ante-hontem; porém o Deus de meu pae esteve commigo;

When they arrived, he said to them, “I see that your father does not act friendly toward me as he did previously. But God, whom my father worshiped, has helped me.

6 E vós mesmas sabeis que com todo o meu poder tenho servido a vosso pae;

You two know that I have worked very hard for your father,

7 Mas vosso pae me enganou e mudou o salario dez vezes; porém Deus não lhe permittiu que me fizesse mal.

but many times [HYP] he has cheated me by decreasing my wages. But God has not allowed him to harm me.

8 Quando elle dizia assim: Os salpicados serão o teu salario; então todos os rebanhos pariam salpicados. E quando elle dizia assim: Os listrados serão o teu salario, então todos os teus rebanhos pariam listrados.

When Laban said, ‘The speckled animals are the ones that I will give you to be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to young ones that were speckled. When he changed and said, ‘The ones that have black and white stripes on them will be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to young ones that were striped.

9 Assim Deus tirou o gado de vosso pae, e m'o deu a mim.

In that way, God has taken away the livestock that belonged to your father and has given them to me.

10 E succedeu que, ao tempo em que o rebanho concebia, eu levantei os meus olhos, e vi em sonhos, e eis que os bodes, que cobriam as ovelhas, eram listrados, salpicados e malhados.

“One time, when the animals were mating, I had a dream. In my dream I [looked up and was surprised to] see that some of the male goats that were mating with the female goats had black and white stripes on them, some were speckled, and some were spotted.

11 E disse-me o anjo de Deus em sonhos: Jacob. E eu disse: Eis-me aqui.

An angel who was sent by God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob!’ I replied, ‘I am here!’

12 E disse elle: Levanta agora os teus olhos, e vê todos os bodes que cobrem o rebanho, que são listrados, salpicados e malhados: porque tenho visto tudo o que Labão te fez.

He said to me, ‘Look up and you will see that all the male goats that are mating have black and white stripes on them, or are speckled or spotted. This is happening because I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

13 Eu sou o Deus de Beth-el, onde teus ungido uma columna, onde me tens votado o voto; levanta-te agora, sae-te d'esta terra, e torna-te á terra da tua parentela.

I am God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you set up a stone to show that the place was holy, and you poured [olive] oil on the stone and made a solemn promise to me. So now leave this land immediately, and return to the land where you were born.’”

14 Então responderam Rachel e Leah, e disseram-lhe: Ha ainda para nós parte ou herança na casa de nosso pae?

Rachel and Leah replied, “Our father will not give us anything more when he dies [RHQ].

15 Não nos considera elle como estranhas? pois vendeu-nos, e comeu de todo o nosso dinheiro.

He treats us as though we were foreigners [RHQ]! [Your working for him all these years was like a payment] that you gave him as a price for us, but we will not inherit any of that money that he got as a price for us. He has spent it all!

16 Porque toda a riqueza, que Deus tirou de nosso pae, é nossa e de nossos filhos: agora pois, faze tudo o que Deus te tem dito.

Surely all of the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you to do!”

17 Então se levantou Jacob, pondo os seus filhos e as suas mulheres sobre os camelos;

Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels.

18 E levou todo o seu gado, e toda a sua fazenda, que havia adquirido, o gado que possuia, que alcançara em Paddan-aram, para ir a Isaac, seu pae, á terra de Canaan.

He made all his livestock go ahead of him. Besides the livestock, he took along all the other things that he had acquired while living in Paddan-Aram. And they prepared to return to his father Isaac, in the Canaan region.

19 E havendo Labão ido a tosquiar as suas ovelhas, furtou Rachel os idolos que seu pae tinha.

Before they left, while Laban was shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the [small wooden] idols [that were in her father’s tent].

20 E esquivou-se Jacob de Labão o arameo, porque não lhe fez saber que fugia.

Furthermore, Jacob deceived Laban, who belonged to the Aram people-group, by not telling him that they were planning to leave.

21 E fugiu elle com tudo o que tinha, e levantou-se, e passou o rio: e poz o seu rosto para a montanha de Gilead.

So Jacob and his family fled with all their possessions, and they crossed the Euphrates River, and then started traveling south toward the hilly Gilead region.

22 E no terceiro dia foi annunciado a Labão que Jacob tinha fugido.

On the third day after they left, someone told Laban that Jacob and his family had left.

23 Então tomou comsigo os seus irmãos, e atraz d'elle proseguiu o caminho por sete dias; e alcançou-o na montanha de Gilead.

So he took some of his relatives with him and started to pursue Jacob. They continued walking for seven days.

24 Veiu porém Deus a Labão o arameo em sonhos de noite, e disse-lhe: Guarda-te, que não falles com Jacob nem bem nem mal.

Then God appeared to Laban in a dream at night, and said to him, “When you catch up to Jacob, be sure that you do not say anything at all [HYP] to him in an angry manner!”

25 Alcançou pois Labão a Jacob, e armara Jacob a sua tenda n'aquella montanha: armou tambem Labão com os seus irmãos a sua na montanha de Gilead.

The next day, by the time Laban caught up with Jacob, Jacob and his household had set up their tents in the hilly Gilead region. So Laban and his relatives set up their tents there, too.

26 Então disse Labão a Jacob: Que fizeste, que te esquivaste de mim, e levaste as minhas filhas como captivas pela espada?

Then Laban went to Jacob and said to him, “Why have you done this? You have deceived me by carrying away my daughters as though you had captured them in a war [MTY]!

27 Porque fugiste occultamente, e te esquivaste de mim, e não me fizeste saber, para que eu te enviasse com alegria, e com canticos, e com tamboril e com harpa?

Why did you run away and deceive me? Why did you not tell me that you were going to leave, so that we could have rejoiced and sung while people played music on tambourines and harps before I said ‘goodbye’ to you?

28 Tambem não me permittiste beijar os meus filhos e as minhas filhas. Loucamente pois agora fizeste, fazendo assim.

(You did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye before they left!/Why did you not allow me to kiss my grandchildren and daughters goodbye before they left?) [RHQ] What you have done was foolish!

29 Poder havia em minha mão para vos fazer mal, mas o Deus de vosso pae me fallou hontem á noite, dizendo: Guarda-te, que não falles com Jacob nem bem nem mal.

My relatives and I have the power to harm you, but last night the God whom your father worships said to me in a dream, ‘Be sure that you do not say anything at all to Jacob in an angry way.’

30 E agora te querias ir embora, porquanto tinhas saudades de voltar a casa de teu pae; porque furtaste os meus deuses?

Now, I know you have left because you long to go back home. But why did you steal my [wooden] idols?”

31 Então respondeu Jacob, e disse a Labão: Porque temia; pois que dizia commigo, se porventura me não arrebatarias as tuas filhas.

Jacob replied to Laban, saying, “I did not tell you that we were planning to leave, because I was afraid. I thought that [if I told you], you would forcefully take your daughters away from me.

32 Com quem achares os teus deuses, esse não viva; reconhece diante de nossos irmãos o que é teu do que está commigo, e toma-o para ti. Pois Jacob não sabia que Rachel os tinha furtado.

But if you find anyone here who has your wooden idols, we will execute that person. While our relatives are watching, search for yourself to see if there is anything that belongs to you that is here with me. If you find anything, you can take it!” When Jacob said that, he did not know that Rachel had stolen the wooden idols.

33 Então entrou Labão na tenda de Jacob, e na tenda de Leah, e na tenda d'ambas as servas, e não os achou; e saindo da tenda de Leah, entrou na tenda de Rachel.

Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and then into Leah’s tent, and then into the tents of the two female slaves and searched for the idols, but he did not find them. After he left their tents, he entered Rachel’s tent.

34 Mas tinha tomado Rachel os idolos, e os tinha posto na albarda de um camelo, e assentara-se sobre elles; e apalpou Labão toda a tenda, e não os achou.

But Rachel had previously taken the idols and put them in the saddle of a camel, and she was sitting on the saddle. So when Laban searched all over for them inside Rachel’s tent, he did not find them.

35 E ella disse a seu pae: Não se accenda a ira aos olhos de meu senhor, que não posso levantar-me diante da tua face; porquanto tenho o costume das mulheres. E elle procurou, mas não achou os idolos.

Rachel said to her father, “Do not be angry with me, sir, but I cannot get up in your presence [to show respect for you], because I am having my monthly menstrual period. [EUP]” So when Laban searched some more, he did not find the [wooden] idols.

36 Então irou-se Jacob, e contendeu com Labão; e respondeu Jacob, e disse a Labão: Qual é a minha transgressão? qual é o meu peccado, que tão furiosamente me tens perseguido?

Then Jacob became angry. He rebuked Laban, saying, “What crime did I commit? For what sin that I committed have you pursued me?

37 Havendo apalpado todos os meus moveis, que achaste de todos os moveis da tua casa? põe-o aqui diante dos meus irmãos, e teus irmãos; e que julguem entre nós ambos.

Now you have searched through all my possessions, and what did you find from all these possessions that belongs to you? Put it here in front of my relatives and your relatives, so that they can decide who is right, you or me!

38 Estes vinte annos eu estive comtigo, as tuas ovelhas e as tuas cabras nunca moveram, e não comi os carneiros do teu rebanho.

I was with you for 20 years. In all that time, your sheep and goats have (not miscarried/always given birth to animals safely). I have not [killed and] eaten any rams from your flocks.

39 Não te trouxe eu o despedaçado; eu o pagava; o furtado de dia e o furtado de noite da minha mão o requerias.

When one of your animals was attacked and mauled/killed by a wild animal, I did not bring it to you. I replaced the dead animal with a living one of my own animals. Whenever one of your animals was stolen, during the day or during the night, you demanded that I replace it with one of my own animals.

40 Estive eu de sorte que de dia me consumia o calor, e de noite a geada; e o meu somno foi-se dos meus olhos.

I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was often not even able to sleep [PRS]!

41 Tenho estado agora vinte annos na tua casa; quatorze annos te servi por tuas duas filhas, e seis annos por teu rebanho; mas o meu salario tens mudado dez vezes.

I lived in your household for 20 years. I worked for you for 14 years to buy your two daughters, and for six more years to buy some of your sheep and goats. During that time, you changed and reduced my wages many times [HYP].

42 Se o Deus de meu pae, o Deus de Abrahão, e o Temor de Isaac não fôra commigo, por certo me enviarias agora vazio. Deus attendeu á minha afflicção, e ao trabalho das minhas mãos, e reprehendeu-te hontem á noite.

If God, the one whom my grandfather Abraham worshiped and before whom my father Isaac trembled in fear, had not been with me and helped me, you would have sent me away (with nothing in my hands/owning nothing)! But God saw how much I was suffering and how hard I was working, so last night he told you that what you have done to me was wrong.”

43 Então respondeu Labão, e disse a Jacob: Estas filhas são minhas filhas, e estes filhos são meus filhos, e este rebanho é o meu rebanho, e tudo o que vês, meu é: e que farei hoje a estas minhas filhas, ou a seus filhos, que pariram?

Laban replied, “These two women are my daughters, and their children are my grandchildren, and the animals are my animals. Everything you see here is mine [HYP]! But what can I do today to keep my daughters or the children they have given birth to [RHQ]?

44 Agora pois vem, e façamos concerto eu e tu, que seja por testemunho entre mim e ti.

I cannot do anything in order to keep them, so hey, we should make a peace agreement, you and I, and do something that will remind us about our agreement.”

45 Então tomou Jacob uma pedra, e erigiu-a por columna.

So Jacob took a [large] stone and set it on its end.

46 E disse Jacob a seus irmãos: Ajuntae pedras. E tomaram pedras, e fizeram um montão, e comeram ali sobre aquelle montão.

Then Jacob said to his relatives, “You also gather some stones.” So they gathered some rocks and put them in a heap, and they ate some food there near the heap.

47 E chamou-o Labão Jegar-sahadutha: porém Jacob chamou-o Galeed.

Laban gave the heap the Aramaic name Jegar-Sahadutha, [which means ‘rock-pile to remind us’, ] but Jacob gave the rock-pile the Hebrew name Galeed, [which has the same meaning].

48 Então disse Labão: Este montão seja hoje por testemunha entre mim e entre ti: por isso se chamou o seu nome Galeed,

Laban said to Jacob, “This pile of rocks we have put here today will help us to remember our agreement.” That is why Jacob called it Galeed.

49 E Mizpah, porquanto disse: Attente o Senhor entre mim e ti, quando nós estivermos apartados um do outro:

They also named the place Mizpah, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘watchtower’, ] because Laban said, “We will ask Yahweh to watch you and me while we are separated from each other, [so that we do not try to harm each other].

50 Se affligires as minhas filhas, e se tomares mulheres além das minhas filhas, ninguem está comnosco: attenta que Deus é testemunha entre mim e ti

If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take other women to be your wives, even if no one tells me about it, don’t forget that God sees what you and I are doing!”

51 Disse mais Labão a Jacob: Eis aqui este mesmo montão, e eis aqui essa columna que levantei entre mim e entre ti.

Laban also said to Jacob, “You see this large stone and this pile of rocks that we have set up to be between us.

52 Este montão seja testemunha, e esta columna seja testemunha, que eu não passarei este montão a ti, e que tu não passarás este montão e esta columna a mim, para mal.

Both this pile of rocks and this large stone will remind us, that I will not go past these rocks to harm you, and you will not go past these rocks to harm me.

53 O Deus de Abrahão, e o Deus de Nahor, o Deus de seu pae julgue entre nós. E jurou Jacob pelo Temor de seu pae Isaac.

We will ask the God whom [your grandfather] Abraham and [his father] Nahor worshiped to punish [MTY] either one of us, [if we harm the other one].” So Jacob solemnly promised to do what they said in their peace agreement. And he asked God, the one before whom his father Isaac trembled, to listen to what they promised.

54 E sacrificou Jacob um sacrificou na montanha, e convidou seus irmãos, para comer pão; e comeram pão, e passaram a noite na montanha.

He offered a sacrifice to God there in the hilly area, and he invited his relatives to eat with him. After they had eaten, they slept there that night.

55 E levantou-se Labão pela manhã de madrugada, e beijou seus filhos, e suas filhas, e abençoou-os, e partiu; e voltou Labão ao seu logar.

The next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters [goodbye] and asked God to bless them. Then he [and his men] left them and returned home.