Mateus 1
1 Livro da geração de Jesus Cristo, filho de David, filho de Abraão.
[This is] the record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, the descendant of [King] David and of Abraham, [from whom all we Jews have descended].
2 Abraão gerou a Isaac; e Isaac gerou a Jacob; e Jacob gerou a Judas e a seus irmãos;
Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob was the father of Judah and Judah’s [older and younger] brothers.
3 E Judas gerou de Tamar a Fares e a Zara; e Fares gerou a Esrom; e Esrom gerou a Arão;
Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, [and their mother] was Tamar. Perez was the father of Hezron. Hezron was the father of Ram.
4 E Arão gerou a Aminadab; e Aminadab gerou a Naason; e Naason gerou a Salmon;
Ram was the father of Amminadab. Amminadab was the father of Nahshon. Nahshon was the father of Salmon.
5 E Salmon gerou de Rachab a Booz, e Booz gerou de Ruth a Obed; e Obed gerou a Jessé;
Salmon and his wife Rahab, [a non-Jewish woman], were the parents of Boaz. Boaz was the father of Obed. [Obed’s mother was] Ruth, [another non-Jewish woman]. Obed was the father of Jesse.
6 E Jessé gerou ao rei David; e o rei David gerou a Salomão, da que foi mulher de Urias;
Jesse was the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon. [Solomon’s mother was previously married to] Uriah.
7 E Salomão gerou a Roboão; e Roboão gerou a Abia; e Abia gerou a Asa;
Solomon was the father of Rehoboam. Rehoboam was the father of Abijah. Abijah was the father of Asaph.
8 E Asa gerou a Josaphat; e Josaphat gerou a Jorão; e Jorão gerou a Ozias;
Asaph was the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was the father of Jehoram. Jehoram was an ancestor of Uzziah.
9 E Ozias gerou a Joathão; e Joathão gerou a Achaz; e Achaz gerou a Ezequias;
Uzziah was the father of Jotham. Jotham was the father of Ahaz. Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah.
10 E Ezequias gerou a Manassés; e Manassés gerou a Amon; e Amon gerou a Josias;
Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh. Manasseh was the father of Amon. Amon was the father of Josiah.
11 E Josias gerou a Jechonias e a seus irmãos na deportação para a Babilônia.
Josiah was the grandfather of Jeconiah and Jeconiah’s brothers. [They lived] at the time when the [Babylonian army] took the Israelites as captives to the [country of] Babylon.
12 E, depois da deportação para a Babilônia, Jechonias gerou a Salathiel; e Salathiel gerou a Zorobabel;
After the Babylonians took the Israelites to Babylon, Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel. Shealtiel was the grandfather of Zerubbabel.
13 E Zorobabel gerou a Abiud; e Abiud gerou a Eliakim; e Eliakim gerou a Azor;
Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud. Abiud was the father of Eliakim.
14 E Azor gerou a Sadoc; e Sadoc gerou a Achim; e Achim gerou a Eliud;
Eliakim was the father of Azor. Azor was the father of Zadok. Zadok was the father of Akim.
15 E Eliud gerou a Eleazar; e Eleazar gerou a Matthan; e Matthan gerou a Jacob;
Akim was the father of Eliud. Eliud was the father of Eleazar. Eleazar was the father of Matthan. Matthan was the father of Jacob.
16 E Jacob gerou a José, marido de Maria, da qual nasceu Jesus, que se chama o Cristo.
Jacob was the father of Joseph. Joseph was Mary’s husband, and Mary was Jesus’ mother. Jesus is the one who is called {whom we call} the Messiah.
17 De sorte que todas as gerações, desde Abraão até David, são quatorze gerações; e desde David até à deportação para a Babilônia, quatorze gerações; e desde a deportação para a Babilônia até o Cristo, quatorze gerações.
[As you can calculate, I have grouped Jesus’] ancestors [as follows: ] There was [a succession of] 14 of them from [the time when] Abraham [lived] to [the time when King] David [lived]. There was [a succession of] 14 of them from [the time when] David [lived] to [the time when] the [Israelites were taken] {[the Babylonian army took the Israelites]} away to Babylon. There was [a succession of] 14 of them from [the time when the Israelites were taken] {[the Babylonian army took the Israelites]} away to Babylon until [the time when] the Messiah [was born].
18 Ora o nascimento de Jesus Cristo foi assim: Estando Maria, sua mãe, desposada com José, antes de se ajuntarem, achou-se grávida do Espírito Santo.
This is [the account of what happened just before] Jesus Christ was born. Mary, his mother, {had publicly promised Joseph that she would marry him} had been publicly promised to marry Joseph. Before they began to sleep together, [Mary] realized that she was pregnant. [It was the power of] the Holy Spirit that had caused her to become pregnant.
19 Então José, seu marido, como era justo, e a não queria infamar, intentou deixa-la secretamente.
Joseph, her [future] husband, was a man who obeyed God’s commands. [One of those commands was that men must divorce women who had acted immorally. So when Joseph learned that Mary was pregnant, he assumed that she was pregnant as a result of her acting immorally]. So he decided to break the engagement. But because he did not want to shame her publicly, he decided to do it privately.
20 E, projetando ele isto, eis que num sonho lhe apareceu um anjo do Senhor, dizendo: José, filho de David, não temas receber a Maria tua mulher, porque o que nela está gerado é do Espírito Santo;
While he was seriously considering this, much to his surprise, in a dream he saw an angel whom the Lord [had sent]. The angel said, “Joseph, descendant of [King] David, do not be afraid that [you(sg) would be doing wrong if you(sg) would marry] Mary. Instead, [begin to treat her] as your wife, because the Holy Spirit, [not a man], has caused her to be pregnant.
21 E dará à luz um filho e chamarás o seu nome Jesus; porque ele salvará o seu povo dos seus pecados.
She will give birth to a son. Since it is he who will cause that his people will be saved from [the guilt of] their having sinned, name [the baby] Jesus, [which means ‘the Lord saves people’].”
22 Tudo isto aconteceu para que se cumprisse o que foi dito da parte do Senhor, pelo profeta, que diz:
All this happened as a result of what the Lord told the prophet [Isaiah to write long ago about what was going to happen]. This is what Isaiah wrote:
23 Eis que a virgem conceberá e dará à luz um filho, e chama-lo-ão pelo nome Emanuel, que traduzido é: Deus conosco.
“Listen, a virgin will become pregnant and will give birth to a son. They will call him Emmanuel.” Emmanuel means ‘God is with us’.
24 E José, despertando do sonho, fez como o anjo do Senhor lhe ordenara, e recebeu a sua mulher;
When Joseph got up from sleep, he did what the angel whom the Lord [had sent] commanded him to do. He took [Mary] home to be his wife.
25 E não a conheceu até que deu à luz o seu filho, o primogênito; e pôs-lhe por nome Jesus.
But he did not have sexual relations with her until she had given birth to a son. And [Joseph] named him Jesus.
