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.
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early, and camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
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.
The LORD said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'
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.
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.' There returned of the people twenty-two thousand; but 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.
The LORD said to Gideon, "The people are yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for you there: and it shall be, that of whom I tell you, This shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, This shall not go with you, the same shall not go.
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.
So he brought down the people to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, "Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall put to one side; and everyone who gets down on his knees to drink with hand to mouth 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.
The number of those who lapped with their tongues was three hundred men, but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water.
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.
The LORD said to Gideon, "By the three hundred men who lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand; and let all the people go every man to his home."
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.
So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men. And the camp of Midian was beneath him 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.
It happened the same night, that the LORD said to him, "Arise, get down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.
10 E, se ainda temes descer, desce tu e teu moço Pura ao arraial;
But if you fear to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp:
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 you shall hear what they say; and afterward will your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp." Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
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.
And Midian, Amalek, and all the Kedemites lay along in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand which is on the seashore.
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.
When Gideon had come, look, there was a man telling a dream to his friend; and he said, "Look, I had a dream, and look, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent collapsed."
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.
His friend answered, "This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. Into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the army."
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.
It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshiped, and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, "Get up, for the LORD has delivered into your hand the army of Midian."
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.
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
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.
He said to them, "Look at me, and do likewise. And look, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
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 I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, "For the LORD and for 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.
So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
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.
The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they called 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.
They each stood in his place every man around the camp; and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
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.
They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against each other throughout the camp; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
23 Então os homens de Israel, de Naphtali, e de Aser e de todo o Manasseh foram convocados, e perseguiram aos midianitas.
The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.
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.
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against Midian, and capture the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and seized the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
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.
They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
