Josué 8
1 Então disse o Senhor a Josué: Não temas, e não te espantes: toma contigo toda a gente de guerra, e levanta-te, sobe a Hai: olha que te tenho dado na tua mão o rei de Hai, e o seu povo, e a sua cidade, e a sua terra.
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged [because of what happened at] Ai. Lead all of your soldiers and go there again. I will help you to defeat the king of Ai, his people, and his city, and [enable you to take] his land.
2 Farás pois a Hai, e a seu rei, como fizeste a Jericó, e a seu rei: salvo que para vós saqueareis os seus despojos, e o seu gado: põe-te emboscadas à cidade, por detraz dela.
Your army will do to the people of Ai and their king like what you did to the people of Jericho and their king. But this time [I will permit you to] take all their possessions and keep them for yourselves. But first, tell some of your soldiers to [hide behind] the city [and] prepare to suddenly attack it.”
3 Então Josué levantou-se, e toda a gente de guerra, para subir contra Hai: e escolheu Josué trinta mil homens valentes e valorosos, e enviou-os de noite.
So Joshua led all his army toward Ai. He chose 30,000 of his best fighters/warriors and prepared to send them out during the night.
4 E deu-lhes ordem, dizendo: olhai, poreis emboscadas à cidade, por detraz da cidade; não vos alongueis muito da cidade: e todos vós estareis apercebidos.
He said to them, “Listen carefully. Some of you must hide on the other side of the city. Do not go far from the city. Just be ready [to attack].
5 Porém eu e todo o povo que está comigo nos achegaremos à cidade: e será que, quando nos sairem ao encontro, como de antes, fugiremos diante deles.
I and the men who are with me will march toward the city [in the morning]. The men in the city will come out to fight us, like they did before. Then we will turn around and start to run away from them.
6 Deixai-os pois sair atráz de nós, até que os tiremos da cidade; porque dirão: Fogem diante de nós como de antes. Assim fugiremos diante deles.
They will think that we are running away from them like we did before. So they will chase us away from the city. While we are running away,
7 Então saireis vós da emboscada, e tomareis a cidade: porque o Senhor vosso Deus vo-la dará na vossa mão.
[those of you who are hiding come out and] rush into the city and capture it. Yahweh your God will enable you to conquer it.
8 E será que, tomando vós a cidade, poreis a cidade a fogo; conforme à palavra do Senhor fareis; olhai que vo-lo tenho mandado.
After you capture the city, burn it. Do what Yahweh has commanded us to do. Those are the orders I am giving to you.”
9 Assim Josué os enviou, e eles se foram à emboscada; e ficaram entre Bethel e Hai, ao ocidente de Hai: porém Josué passou aquela noite no meio do povo.
Then Joshua [prepared to] send some of them to [hide and] wait between Ai and Bethel, which was west of Ai. But Joshua stayed with his other soldiers that night.
10 E levantou-se Josué de madrugada, e contou o povo: e subiram ele e os anciãos de Israel diante do povo contra Hai.
Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. Then he and the other Israeli leaders led them up to Ai.
11 Subiu também toda a gente de guerra, que estava com ele, e chegaram-se, e vieram fronteiros à cidade: e alojaram-se da banda do norte de Hai; e havia um vale entre ele e Hai.
They all set up their tents close to Ai, just to the north of the city, where all the people of the city could see them. There was a valley between them and the city.
12 Tomou também alguns cinco mil homens, e pô-los entre Bethel e Hai em emboscada, ao ocidente da cidade.
Then Joshua chose about 5,000 men and told them to go and hide just west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.
13 E puseram o povo, todo o arraial que estava ao norte da cidade, e a sua emboscada ao ocidente da cidade: e foi Josué aquela noite ao meio do vale.
So those men did that. The main group of soldiers was north of the city, and the others were hiding west of the city. That night Joshua went down into the valley.
14 E sucedeu que, vendo-o o rei de Hai, se apressaram, e se levantaram de madrugada, e os homens da cidade sairam ao encontro de Israel ao combate, ele e todo o seu povo, ao tempo assinalado, perante as campinas: porque ele não sabia, que se lhe houvesse posto emboscada detraz da cidade.
When the king of Ai saw the Israeli army, he and his soldiers got up early the next morning and quickly went out of the city to fight them. They went to a place east of the city, but they did not know that some Israeli soldiers were hiding behind the city.
15 Josué pois e todo o Israel se houveram como feridos diante deles, e fugiram pelo caminho do deserto.
Joshua and the Israeli soldiers [who were with him] allowed the army of Ai to push them back. They ran toward the desert.
16 Pelo que todo o povo, que estava na cidade, foi convocado para os seguir: e seguiram a Josué e foram atraídos da cidade.
The men in Ai were ordered to chase after Joshua and his men. So they left the city and started to pursue the Israelis.
17 E nem um só homem ficou em Hai, nem em Bethel, que não saísse após Israel: e deixaram a cidade aberta, e seguiram a Israel.
All the men of Ai and the men of Bethel pursued the Israeli army. They did not leave even one man in Ai to defend it. The [gates of the] city were left wide open.
18 Então o Senhor disse a Josué: Estende a lança que tens na tua mão, para Hai; porque a darei na tua mão. E Josué estendeu a lança, que estava na sua mão, para a cidade.
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “[Lift up] your spear [and] point it toward Ai, because I am going to enable your soldiers to capture it!” So Joshua pointed [his spear] toward Ai.
19 Então a emboscada se levantou do seu lugar apressadamente, e correram, estendendo ele a sua mão, e vieram à cidade, e a tomaram: e apressaram-se, e puseram a cidade a fogo.
When the Israeli men who were hiding saw that, they rushed out from the places where they were hiding and ran into the city. They quickly captured it and set it on fire.
20 E virando-se os homens de Hai para traz, olharam, e eis que o fumo da cidade subia ao céu, e não tiveram lugar para fugirem para uma parte nem outra: porque o povo, que fugia para o deserto, se tornou contra os que os seguiam.
When the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke rising from their city. But they could not escape, because the Israeli troops stopped running away.
21 E vendo Josué e todo o Israel que a emboscada tomara a cidade, e que o fumo da cidade subia, tornaram, e feriram os homens de Hai.
Joshua and his men saw that the men who had been hiding had captured the city and were burning it, and they saw the smoke rising. So they turned around and started to attack the men of Ai.
22 Também aqueles da cidade lhes sairam ao encontro, e assim cairam no meio dos israelitas, uns de uma, e outros de outra parte: e feriram-nos, até que nenhum deles ficou, o que escapasse.
Meanwhile, the soldiers who had captured the city came out [and attacked them from the rear]. So the men of Ai were caught between the two groups of Israeli soldiers. None of the men of Ai escaped. The Israelis fought until they killed all of them. Only the king of Ai was still alive.
23 Porém ao rei de Hai tomaram vivo, e o trouxeram a Josué.
Then they seized the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
24 E sucedeu que, acabando os israelitas de matar todos os moradores de Hai no campo, no deserto onde os tinham seguido, e havendo todos caído ao fio da espada, até todos serem consumidos, todo o Israel se tornou a Hai, e a puseram a fio de espada.
While they were fighting, the Israeli army pursued the men of Ai into the fields and into the desert, and killed all of them. Then they went to Ai and killed everyone who was there.
25 E todos os que cairam aquele dia, assim homens como mulheres, foram doze mil: todos moradores de Hai.
They killed 12,000 men and women.
26 Porque Josué não retirou a sua mão, que estendera com a lança, até destruir totalmente a todos os moradores de Hai.
Joshua continued to point his spear [LIT] toward Ai, until all the people in Ai had been killed.
27 Tão somente os israelitas saquearam para si o gado e os despojos da cidade, conforme à palavra do Senhor, que tinha ordenado a Josué.
The Israeli soldiers took for themselves the animals and the other things that had belonged to the people of Ai, just like Yahweh had told Joshua that they should do.
28 Queimou pois Josué a Hai: e a tornou num montão perpétuo, em assolamento, até ao dia de hoje.
Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai city and caused it to become a pile of ruins. It is still like that today.
29 E ao rei de Hai enforcou num madeiro, até à tarde: e ao pôr do sol ordenou Josué, que o seu corpo se tirasse do madeiro; e o lançaram à porta da cidade, e levantaram sobre ele um grande montão de pedras, até ao dia de hoje.
Joshua hanged the king of Ai on a tree and left his corpse hanging there until the evening. At sunset Joshua told his men to take the king’s corpse down from the tree and to throw it on the ground at the city gate. [After they did that], they piled a lot of rocks on top of the corpse, and that pile of rocks is still there.
30 Então Josué edificou um altar ao Senhor Deus de Israel, no monte de Ebal,
Joshua [told his men to] build on Ebal Mountain an altar for Yahweh, the God [who is worshiped by] the Israeli people.
31 Como Moisés, servo do Senhor, ordenou aos filhos de Israel, conforme ao que está escrito no livro da lei de Moisés, a saber: um altar de pedras inteiras, sobre o qual se não movera ferro: e ofereceram sobre ele holocaustos ao Senhor, e sacrificaram sacrifícios pacíficos.
They built it just like Moses, the man who served God [well], had written previously in the laws [that God had given to him]. They made it from stones that had not been cut using iron tools. The Israelis then offered sacrifices to Yahweh that were burned completely on the altar. They also offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh.
32 Também escreveu ali em pedras uma copia da lei de Moisés, que já tinha escrito diante dos filhos de Israel.
As the Israelis watched, Joshua wrote on stones the laws that [Yahweh had given] to Moses previously.
33 E todo o Israel, com os seus anciãos, e os seus príncipes, e os seus juízes, estavam de uma e outra banda da arca, perante os sacerdotes levitas, que levavam a arca do concerto do Senhor, assim estrangeiros como naturais; metade deles em frente do monte Gerizim, e a outra metade em frente do monte Ebal; como Moisés, servo do Senhor, ordenara, para abençoar primeiramente o povo de Israel.
The Israeli leaders, the officials, the judges, and other Israelis were there, standing nearby. Many people who were not Israelis were also there. Half of the people stood [on one side of the valley] below Ebal Mountain, and the other half of the people stood [on the other side of the valley] below Gerizim Mountain. The sacred chest was [in the valley] between the two groups. That was what Moses had previously commanded that the people should do when [Yahweh was about to] bless them.
34 E depois leu em alta voz todas as palavras da lei, a benção e a maldição, conforme a tudo o que está escrito no livro da lei.
Then Joshua read [to the people] all that [Moses] had written previously. That included what Yahweh had taught them and the ways [that he promised] to bless them [if they obeyed his commands], or to curse them [if they disobeyed them].
35 Palavra nenhuma houve, de tudo o que Moisés ordenara, que Josué não lesse perante toda a congregação de Israel, e das mulheres, e dos meninos, e dos estrangeiros, que andavam no meio deles.
All the Israelis gathered together [to listen]—the men, the women, and the children. The (foreigners/people who were not Israelis) who were living among them also listened, while Joshua read all the commands that Moses had written.
