Juízes 7
1 Então Jerubbaal (que é Gideon) se levantou de madrugada, e todo o povo que com ele havia, e se acamparam junto à fonte de Harod; de maneira que tinha o arraial dos midianitas para o norte, pelo outeiro de Moreh no vale.
And so Jerubbaal, who is also Gideon, rising in the night, and all the people with him, went to the fountain which is called Harod. Now the camp of Midian was in the valley, to the northern region of the high hill.
2 E disse o Senhor a Gideon: Muito é o povo que está contigo, para eu dar aos midianitas em sua mão; a fim de que Israel se não glorie contra mim, dizendo: A minha mão me livrou.
And the Lord said to Gideon: “The people with you are many, but Midian shall not be delivered into their hands, for then Israel might glory against me, and say, ‘I was freed by my own power.’
3 Agora pois apregoa aos ouvidos do povo, dizendo: Quem for covarde e medroso, volte, e vá-se apressadamente das montanhas de Gilead. Então voltaram do povo vinte e dois mil, e dez mil ficaram.
Speak to the people, and proclaim in the hearing of all, ‘Whoever has dread or fear, let him return.’ And twenty-two thousand of the men from the people withdrew from Mount Gilead and returned, and only ten thousand remained.
4 E disse o Senhor a Gideon: Ainda muito povo há; faze-os descer às águas, e ali tos provarei: e será que, daquele de que eu te disser: Este irá contigo, esse contigo irá; porém de todo aquele, de que eu te disser: Este não irá contigo, esse não irá.
And the Lord said to Gideon: “The people are still too many. Lead them to the waters, and there I will test them. And those about whom I tell you that he may go with you, let him go; he whom I shall forbid to go, let him return.”
5 E fez descer o povo às águas. Então o Senhor disse a Gideon: Qualquer que lamber as águas com a sua língua, como as lambe o cão, esse porás à parte; como também a todo aquele que se abaixar de joelhos a beber.
And when the people had descended to the waters, the Lord said to Gideon: “Whoever will lap the water with the tongue, as dogs usually lap, you shall separate them by themselves. Then those who will drink by bending their knees shall be on the other side.”
6 E foi o número dos que lamberam, levando a mão à boca, trezentos homens; e todo o resto do povo se abaixou de joelhos a beber as águas.
And so the number of those who had lapped the water, by bringing it with the hand to the mouth, was three hundred men. And all the remainder of the multitude drank by bending the knee.
7 E disse o Senhor a Gideon: Com estes trezentos homens que lamberam as águas vos livrarei, e darei os midianitas na tua mão; pelo que toda a outra gente se vá cada um ao seu lugar.
And the Lord said to Gideon: “By the three hundred men who lapped the water, I will free you, and I will deliver Midian into your hand. But let all the remainder of the multitude return to their place.”
8 E o povo tomou na sua mão a provisão e as suas buzinas, e enviou a todos os outros homens de Israel cada um à sua tenda, porém os trezentos homens reteve: e estava o arraial dos midianitas abaixo no vale.
And so, taking food and trumpets in accord with their number, he instructed all the rest of the multitude to go back to their tents. And with the three hundred men, he gave himself to the conflict. Now the camp of Midian was below, in the valley.
9 E sucedeu que, naquela mesma noite, o Senhor lhe disse: Levanta-te, e desce ao arraial, porque o tenho dado na tua mão.
In the same night, the Lord said to him: “Rise up, and descend into the camp. For I have delivered them into your hand.
10 E, se ainda temes descer, desce tu e teu moço Pura ao arraial;
But if you dread to go alone, let your servant Purah descend with you.
11 E ouvirás o que dizem, e então se esforçarão as tuas mãos e descerás ao arraial. Então desceu ele com o seu moço Pura até ao extremo das sentinelas que estavam no arraial.
And when you will hear what they are saying, then your hands will be strengthened, and you will descend more confidently to the camp of the enemy.” Therefore, he descended with his servant Purah into a portion of the camp, where there was a watch of armed men.
12 E os midianitas, e amalequitas, e todos os filhos do oriente jaziam no vale como gafanhotos em multidão: e eram inumeráveis os seus camelos, como a areia que há na praia do mar em multidão.
But Midian, and Amalek, and all the eastern peoples lay spread out in the valley, like a multitude of locusts. Their camels, too, were innumerable, like the sand that lies on the shore of the sea.
13 Chegando pois Gideon, eis que estava contando um homem ao seu companheiro um sonho, e dizia: Eis que um sonho sonhei, eis que um pão de cevada torrado rodava pelo arraial dos midianitas, e chegava até às tendas, e as feriu, e cairam, e as transtornou de cima para baixo; e ficaram abatidas.
And when Gideon had arrived, someone told his neighbor a dream. And he related what he had seen, in this way: “I saw a dream, and it seemed to me as if bread, baked under ashes from rolled barley, descended into the camp of Midian. And whenever it arrived at a tent, it struck it, and overturned it, and utterly leveled it to the ground.”
14 E respondeu o seu companheiro, e disse: Não é isto outra coisa, senão a espada de Gideon, filho de Joás, varão israelita. Deus tem dado na sua mão aos midianitas, e a todo este arraial.
He to whom he spoke, responded: “This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, a man of Israel. For the Lord has delivered Midian into his hands, with their entire camp.”
15 E sucedeu que, ouvindo Gideon a narração deste sonho, e a sua explicação, adorou: e tornou ao arraial de Israel, e disse: levantai-vos, porque o Senhor tem dado o arraial dos midianitas nas vossas mãos.
And when Gideon had heard the dream and its interpretation, he worshipped. And he returned to the camp of Israel, and he said: “Rise up! For the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into our hands.”
16 Então repartiu os trezentos homens em três esquadrões: e deu-lhes a cada um nas suas mãos buzinas, e cântaros vazios, com tochas neles acesas.
And he divided the three hundred men into three parts. And he gave trumpets, and empty pitchers, and lamps for the middle of the pitchers, into their hands.
17 E disse-lhes: olhai para mim e fazei como eu fizer: e eis que chegando eu ao extremo do arraial, será que, como eu fizer, assim fareis vós.
And he said to them: “What you will see me do, do the same. I will enter a portion of the camp, and what I do, you shall follow.
18 Tocando eu e todos os que comigo estiverem a buzina, então também vós tocareis a buzina ao redor de todo o arraial, e direis: Pelo Senhor, e Gideon.
When the trumpet in my hand blares out, you also shall sound the trumpets, on every side of the camp, and shout together to the Lord and to Gideon.”
19 Chegou pois Gideon, e os cem homens que com ele iam, ao extremo do arraial, ao princípio da guarda da meia noite, havendo-se já posto as guardas: e tocaram as buzinas, e partiram os cântaros, que tinham nas mãos.
And Gideon, and the three hundred men who were with him, entered a portion of the camp, at the beginning of the watch in the middle of the night. And when the guards were alerted, they began to sound the trumpets and to clap the pitchers against one another.
20 Assim tocaram os três esquadrões as buzinas, e partiram os cântaros; e tinham nas suas mãos esquerdas as tochas acesas, e nas suas mãos direitas as buzinas, que tocavam: e exclamaram: Espada do Senhor, e de Gideon.
And when they had sounded their trumpets in three places around the camp, and had broken their water pitchers, they held the lamps in their left hands, and sounded the trumpets in their right hands. And they cried out, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!”
21 E ficou-se cada um no seu lugar ao redor do arraial: então todo o exército deitou a correr, e, gritando, fugiram.
And each one was standing in his place throughout the camp of the enemies. And so the entire camp was in confusion; and they fled away, wailing and crying out.
22 Tocando pois os trezentos as buzinas, o Senhor tornou a espada dum contra o outro, e isto em todo o arraial: e o exército fugiu para Zererath, até Beth-sitta até aos limites de Abel-mehola, acima de Tabbath.
And the three hundred men nevertheless continued sounding the trumpets. And the Lord sent the sword into the entire camp, and they maimed and cut down one another,
23 Então os homens de Israel, de Naphtali, e de Aser e de todo o Manasseh foram convocados, e perseguiram aos midianitas.
fleeing as far as Bethshittah, and the base of Abelmeholah in Tabbath. But the men of Israel pursued Midian, shouting from Naphtali and Asher, and from all of Manasseh.
24 Também Gideon enviou mensageiros a todas as montanhas de Ephraim, dizendo: Descei ao encontro dos midianitas, e tomai-lhes as águas até Beth-bara, a saber, o Jordão. Convocados pois todos os homens de Ephraim, tomaram-lhes as águas até Beth-bara e o Jordão.
And Gideon sent messengers throughout all of Mount Ephraim, saying, “Descend to meet Midian, and occupy the waters ahead of them as far as Bethbarah and the Jordan.” And all of Ephraim cried out, and they occupied the waters ahead of them, from the Jordan even to Bethbarah.
25 E prenderam a dois príncipes dos midianitas, a Oreb e a Zeeb; e mataram a Oreb na penha de Oreb, e a Zeeb mataram no lagar de Zeeb, e perseguiram aos midianitas: e trouxeram as cabeças de Oreb e de Zeeb a Gideon, de além do Jordão.
And having apprehended two men of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, they put Oreb to death at the Rock of Oreb, and truly, Zeeb, at the Winepress of Zeeb. And they pursued Midian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, across the waters of the Jordan.
