Deuteronômio 8
1 Todos os mandamentos que hoje vos ordeno guardareis para os fazer: para que vivais, e vos multipliqueis, e entreis, e possuais a terra que o Senhor jurou a vossos pais.
“You must faithfully obey all the commandments that I am giving you today. If you do that, you will live [a long time], you will become very numerous, and you will occupy the land that Yahweh solemnly promised your ancestors that he would give [to you].
2 E te lembrarás de todo o caminho, pelo qual o Senhor teu Deus te guiou no deserto estes quarenta anos, para te humilhar, e te tentar, para saber o que estava no teu coração, se guardarias os seus mandamentos, ou não.
And do not forget how Yahweh our God led us as we traveled through the desert during these past 40 years. He [caused you to have many problems/difficulties], because he wanted to cause you to realize that you needed to trust him and not yourselves. And he wanted to test you, to find out what you intended to do [IDM], whether you would obey his commandments or not.
3 E te humilhou, e te deixou ter fome, e te sustentou com o maná, que tu não conheceste, nem teus pais o conheceram: para te dar a entender que o homem não viverá só de pão, mas que de tudo o que sai da boca do Senhor viverá o homem.
So he caused you to have/experience difficulties. He allowed you to become hungry. Then he gave you manna [food from heaven], food that you and your ancestors had never eaten before. He did that to teach you that people need food [for their bodies]; but [they also need food for their spirits, which comes from paying attention to] everything that Yahweh says [MTY].
4 Nunca se envelheceu o teu vestido sobre ti, nem se inchou o teu pé estes quarenta anos.
During those 40 years [of walking through the desert], our clothes did not wear out and our feet did not swell [from walking a very long way through the desert].
5 Confessa pois no teu coração que, como um homem castiga a seu filho, assim te castiga o Senhor teu Deus.
Do not forget that Yahweh our God disciplines us, like parents discipline their children.
6 E guarda os mandamentos do Senhor teu Deus, para o temer, e andar nos seus caminhos.
“Do obey the commandments of Yahweh our God, and conduct your lives as he wants you to do, and revere him.
7 Porque o Senhor teu Deus te mete numa boa terra, terra de ribeiros de águas, de fontes, e de abismos, que saem dos vales e das montanhas;
He is about to bring you into a good/fertile land, which has streams which flow down from the hills and pour/flow out of springs in the valleys.
8 Terra de trigo e cevada, e de vides, e figueiras, e romeiras; terra de oliveiras, abundante de azeite e mel;
It is a land on which wheat and barley grow, a land where there are fig trees and pomegranates, and a land where there are olive trees and honey.
9 Terra em que comerás o pão sem escassez, e nada te faltará nela: terra cujas pedras são ferro, e de cujos montes tu cavarás o cobre.
It is a land where there will be plenty of food for you, where you will (not lack anything/have everything that you need) [LIT], a land which has iron [ore] in its rocks and from which you can dig copper [ore] from its hills.
10 Quando pois tiveres comido, e fores farto, louvarás ao Senhor teu Deus pela boa terra que te deu.
[Every day] you will eat until your stomachs are full, and you will thank Yahweh our God for the fertile/good land that he has given you.
11 Guarda-te que te esqueças do Senhor teu Deus, não guardando os seus mandamentos, e os seus juízos, e os seus estatutos que hoje te ordeno:
But, [when that happens], be sure not to forget Yahweh our God by disobeying his commandments and rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.
12 Para que, porventura, havendo tu comido e fores farto, e havendo edificado boas casas, e habitando-as,
When your stomachs are full [every day], and when you have built good houses and are living in them,
13 E se tiverem aumentado as tuas vacas e as tuas ovelhas, e se acrescentar a prata e o ouro, e se multiplicar tudo quanto tens,
and when the number of your cattle and sheep has greatly increased, and when you have accumulated a large amount of silver and gold, and the amount of all your other possessions has greatly increased,
14 Se não eleve o teu coração e te esqueças do Senhor teu Deus, que te tirou da terra do Egito, da casa da servidão;
be sure that you do not become proud [IDM] and forget Yahweh our God, who rescued your ancestors from being slaves in Egypt and brought them out from there.
15 Que te guiou por aquele grande e terrível deserto de serpentes ardentes, e de escorpiões, e de secura, em que não havia água; e tirou água para ti da rocha do seixal;
Do not forget that he led them [while they traveled] through that huge and terrible desert, where there were poisonous snakes and scorpions. And do not forget that where the ground was very dry and there was no water, he caused water to flow for them out of (solid/very hard) rock.
16 Que no deserto te sustentou com maná, que teus pais não conheceram; para te humilhar, e para te provar, para no teu fim te fazer bem;
Do not forget that in that desert he gave your ancestors manna to eat, food that they had never eaten before. He [caused them to have/experience many problems/difficulties], because he wanted them to realize that they needed to trust him and not themselves. And he wanted to test them, to find out whether they intended to obey him, in order that when [those difficulties] ended, he would do many good things for them.
17 E digas no teu coração: A minha força, e a fortaleza de meu braço, me adquiriu este poder.
Be sure that you do not think to yourselves, ‘I have acquired all these things by my own power [MTY] and ability.’
18 Antes te lembrarás do Senhor teu Deus, que ele é o que te dá força para adquirires poder; para confirmar o seu concerto, que jurou a teus pais; como se vê neste dia.
Do not forget that it is Yahweh our God who has enabled you to become rich. He does this because he faithfully does what he solemnly promised our ancestors that he would do.
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 eles, hoje eu protesto contra vós que certamente perecereis.
“solemnly warn you that if you forget Yahweh our God and turn to other gods and start to serve them and worship them, you will certainly be destroyed.
20 Como as gentes que o Senhor destruiu diante de vós, assim vós perecereis: porquanto não querieis obedecer à voz do Senhor vosso Deus.
If you do not obey Yahweh our God, he will certainly destroy you just like he will destroy the people-groups that you will fight against.”
