Neemias 13
1 N'aquelle dia leu-se no livro de Moysés, aos ouvidos do povo: e achou-se escripto n'elle que os ammonitas e os moabitas não entrassem jámais na congregação de Deus
On that day, when someone read to the people parts of the laws [that God gave] to Moses, they read where it was written that no one from the Ammon people-group or the Moab people-group was ever to be allowed to be with God’s people while they were gathered together [to worship].
2 Porquanto não sairam ao encontro dos filhos d'Israel com pão e agua; antes alugaram contra elles a Balaão para os amaldiçoar; ainda que o nosso Deus converteu a maldição em benção.
The reason for that was that the people of Ammon and the people of Moab did not give/sell any food or water to the Israelis [while the Israelis were going through their areas after they left Egypt]. Instead, the people of Ammon and Moab paid money to Balaam in order that he would curse the Israelis. But God commanded Balaam to bless the people, not to curse them.
3 Succedeu pois que, ouvindo elles esta lei, apartaram d'Israel toda a mistura.
So when the people heard these laws [being read to them], they sent away all the people whose ancestors had come from other countries.
4 E d'antes Eliasib, sacerdote, que presidia sobre a camara da casa do nosso Deus, se tinha aparentado com Tobias;
Previously, Eliashib the priest had been appointed to be in charge of the storerooms in the temple. He was a relative of [our enemy] Tobiah.
5 E fizera-lhe uma camara grande, onde d'antes se mettiam as offertas de manjares, o incenso, e os vasos, e os dizimos do grão, do mosto, e do azeite, que se ordenaram para os levitas, e cantores, e porteiros, como tambem a offerta alçada para os sacerdotes.
He allowed Tobiah to use a large room in which they had previously stored the grain offerings and the incense, the equipment that is used in the temple, the offerings [that the people had brought] for the priests, and the tithes of grain and wine and [olive] oil that [God] had commanded the people to bring to the [other] descendants of Levi, and to the temple musicians, and to the temple guards.
6 Porém em tudo isto não estava eu em Jerusalem; porque no anno trinta e dois de Artaxerxes, rei de Babylonia, vim eu ter com o rei; mas ao cabo de alguns dias tornei a alcançar licença do rei
While [Tobias was using that room], I was not in Jerusalem, because in the 32nd year that Artaxerxes was the king of Babylonia, I went back there to report to him. After a while I requested the king to allow me to return to Jerusalem, [and he allowed me to go].
7 E vim a Jerusalem, e entendi o mal que Eliasib fizera para Tobias, fazendo-lhe uma camara nos pateos da casa de Deus.
When I arrived in Jerusalem, I found out that Eliashib had done an evil thing by allowing Tobiah to use a room in God’s temple.
8 O que muito me desagradou: de sorte que lancei todos os moveis da casa de Tobias fóra da camara.
I became very angry, and I threw out of that room everything that belonged to Tobiah.
9 E, ordenando-o eu, purificaram as camaras: e tornei a trazer ali os vasos da casa de Deus, com as offertas de manjares, e o incenso.
Then I commanded [that they perform a ritual] to make the rooms (pure/acceptable to God) again. And I also ordered that all the equipment used in the temple and all the grain offerings and incense should be put in that room again.
10 Tambem entendi que o quinhão dos levitas se lhes não dava: de maneira que os levitas e os cantores, que faziam a obra, tinham fugido cada um para a sua terra.
I also found out that the temple musicians and [other] descendants of Levi had left Jerusalem and returned to their fields/farms, because the Israeli people had not been bringing to them the food [that they needed].
11 Então contendi com os magistrados, e disse: Porque se desamparou a casa de Deus? Porém eu os ajuntei, e os restaurei no seu posto.
So I rebuked the officials, saying to them, “(Why have you not taken care of the work in the temple?/It is disgraceful that you have not taken care of the work in the temple.)” [RHQ] So I brought the descendants of Levi and the musicians back to the temple, and told them to do their work there again.
12 Então todo o Judah trouxe os dizimos do grão, e do mosto, e do azeite aos celleiros.
Then all the people of Judah again started to bring to the temple storerooms their tithes of grain, wine, and [olive] oil.
13 E por thesoureiros puz sobre os celleiros a Selemias o sacerdote, e a Zadok o escrivão, e a Pedaias, d'entre os levitas; e á mão d'elles Hanan, filho de Zacchur, o filho de Matthanias: porque se tinham achado fieis: e se lhes encarregou a elles a distribuição para seus irmãos.
I appointed these men to be in charge of the storerooms: Shelemiah, who was a priest; Zadok, who knew the Jewish laws very well; and Pedaiah, a descendant of Levi. I appointed Hanan, who is the son of Zaccur and grandson of Mattaniah, to assist them. I knew that I could trust these men while they distributed those offerings to their fellow workers.
14 (Por isto, Deus meu, lembra-te de mim: e não risques as minhas beneficencias que eu fiz á casa de meu Deus e ás suas guardas.)
My God, do not forget all these good things that I have faithfully done for your temple and for the work that is done there!
15 N'aquelles dias vi em Judah os que pisavam lagares ao sabbado e traziam feixes que carregavam sobre os jumentos; como tambem vinho, uvas e figos, e toda a casta de cargas, que traziam a Jerusalem no dia de sabbado; e protestei contra elles no dia em que vendiam mantimentos.
During that time, I saw some people in Judea [who were working] on the Sabbath day. [Some were] pressing grapes [to make wine]. Others were putting grain, [bags of] wine, [baskets of] grapes, figs, and many [HYP] other things, on their donkeys and taking them into Jerusalem. I warned them that they should not sell things to the people of Judea on Sabbath days.
16 Tambem tyrios habitavam dentro, que traziam peixe, e toda a mercadoria, que no sabbado vendiam aos filhos de Judah, e em Jerusalem.
I also saw some people from Tyre [city] who were living there in Jerusalem who were bringing fish and other things [into Jerusalem] to sell to the people of Judea on the Sabbath day.
17 E contendi com os nobres de Judah, e lhes disse: Que mal é este que fazeis, e profanaes o dia de sabbado?
So I rebuked the Jewish leaders and told them, “This is [RHQ] a very evil thing that you are doing! You are causing the Sabbath days to be unholy.
18 Porventura não fizeram vossos paes assim, e nosso Deus não trouxe todo este mal sobre nós e sobre esta cidade? e vós ainda mais accrescentaes o ardor de sua ira sobre Israel, profanando o sabbado.
Your ancestors did [RHQ] things like that, so God punished them, and as a result, this city was destroyed! And now by causing the Sabbath day to be unholy, you are going to cause God to be angry with us Israeli people [and punish us] more!”
19 Succedeu pois que, dando as portas de Jerusalem já sombra antes do sabbado, ordenando-o eu, as portas se fecharam; e mandei que as não abrissem até passado o sabbado; e puz ás portas alguns de meus moços, para que carga nenhuma entrasse no dia de sabbado.
So I ordered that at (the beginning of every Sabbath day/every Friday evening) they should shut the gates of the city before it became dark. I also ordered that they should not open the gates until (the Sabbath day was ended [the next day]/Saturday evening). Then [each Sabbath day] I put some of my men at the gates, so they would make sure that nothing to sell was brought into the city on that day.
20 Então os negociantes e os vendedores de toda a mercadoria passaram a noite fóra de Jerusalem, uma ou duas vezes.
One or two times merchants [DOU] stayed outside of the city on (Friday night/[the night before the Sabbath day]).
21 Protestei pois contra elles, e lhes disse: Porque passaes a noite defronte do muro? se outra vez o fizerdes, hei de lançar mão de vós: d'aquelle tempo em diante não vieram no sabbado.
I warned them, “It is useless [RHQ] for you to stay here outside the walls [on Friday night]! If you do this again, I will tell my men to arrest you!” So after that, they did not come on Sabbath days.
22 Tambem disse aos levitas que se purificassem, e viessem guardar as portas, para sanctificar o sabbado. (N'isto tambem, Deus meu, lembra-te de mim; e perdoa-me segundo a abundancia da tua benignidade.)
I also commanded the descendants of Levi to [perform the ritual to] purify themselves and to guard the city gates, to make sure that the Sabbath was kept holy [by not allowing merchants to enter it on Sabbath days]. My God, do not forget this also that I [have done for you]! And because of your faithfully loving me, allow me to continue to live [many more years]!
23 Vi tambem n'aquelles dias judeos que tinham casado com mulheres asdoditas, ammonitas, e moabitas.
During that time, I also found out that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod [city], and from [the] Ammon and Moab [people-groups].
24 E seus filhos fallavam meio asdotita, e não podiam fallar judaico, senão segundo a lingua de cada povo.
The result was that half of their children spoke the language that people in Ashdod speak or some other language, and they didn’t know how to speak our language.
25 E contendi com elles, e os amaldiçoei e espanquei alguns d'elles, e lhes arranquei os cabellos, e os fiz jurar por Deus, dizendo: Não dareis mais vossas filhas a seus filhos, e não tomareis mais suas filhas, nem para vossos filhos nem para vós mesmos.
So I rebuked those men, and I [asked God to] curse them, and I beat them and pulled out [some of] their hair. Then I forced them to solemnly promise, knowing that God [MTY] was [listening], that they would never again marry foreigners, and never allow their children to marry foreigners.
26 Porventura não peccou n'isto Salomão, rei d'Israel, não havendo entre muitas gentes rei similhante a elle, e sendo amado de seu Deus, e pondo-o Deus rei sobre todo o Israel? e comtudo as mulheres estranhas o fizeram peccar.
[I said to them], “Solomon, the king of Israel, sinned [RHQ] as a result of [marrying] foreign women. He was greater than any of the kings of other nations. God loved him, and caused him to become the king of all the Israeli people, but his foreign wives caused even him to sin.
27 E dar-vos-hiamos nós ouvidos, para fazermos todo este grande mal, prevaricando contra o nosso Deus, casando com mulheres estranhas?
[Do you think that] we should do what you have done, and disobey our God by marrying foreign women [who worship idols]? [RHQ]”
28 Tambem um dos filhos de Joiada, filho d'Eliasib, o summo sacerdote, era genro de Sanballat, o horonita, pelo que o afugentei de mim.
One of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the Supreme Priest, had married the daughter of [our enemy] Sanballat, from Beth-Horon [town]. So I forced Jehoiada’s son to leave Jerusalem.
29 Lembra-te d'elles, Deus meu, pois contaminaram o sacerdocio, como tambem o concerto do sacerdocio e dos levitas.
My God, do not forget that those people [who have married foreign women] have caused it to be a shame/disgrace to be a priest, and have caused people to despise the agreement that you made with the priests and with the [other] descendants of Levi [who help the priests])!
30 Assim os alimpei de todo o estranho, e ordenei as guardas dos sacerdotes e dos levitas, cada um na sua obra.
I did all that to make sure that there were no more foreign people among the [Israeli] people [who would encourage them to worship idols]. I also established regulations for the priests and [other] descendants of Levi, in order that they would know what work they should do.
31 Como tambem para com as offertas da lenha em tempos determinados, e para com as primicias: lembra-te de mim, Deus meu, para bem.
I also arranged for people to bring the firewood [that was needed to burn on the altar, as Moses had declared] that we should [do]. I also arranged for the people to bring the first part of what they harvested [each year]. My God, do not forget [that] I [have done all these things], and bless me [for doing them]!
