Números 21
1 Ouvindo o Cananeo, o rei de Harad, que habitava para a banda do sul, que Israel vinha pelo caminho das espias, pelejou contra Israel, e dele levou alguns deles por prisioneiros.
The king of Arad [city] lived in the area where the Canaan people-group lived, in the desert in the southern part of the land. He heard a report that the Israelis were approaching on the road to Atharim [village]. So his army attacked the Israelis and captured some of them.
2 Então Israel fez um voto ao Senhor, dizendo: Se totalmente entregares este povo na minha mão, destruirei totalmente as suas cidades.
Then the Israelis solemnly vowed: “Yahweh, if you will help us to defeat these people, we will completely destroy all their towns.”
3 O Senhor pois ouviu a voz de Israel, e entregou os cananeus, e os destruiu totalmente, a eles e às suas cidades: e o nome daquele lugar chamou Horma.
Yahweh heard what they requested, and he enabled them to defeat the army of the Canaan people-group. The Israeli soldiers killed all the people and destroyed their towns. [Ever since that time], that place has been called Hormah [which means ‘destruction’].
4 Então partiram do monte de Hor, pelo caminho do Mar Vermelho, a rodear a terra de Edom: porém a alma do povo angustiou-se neste caminho.
Then the Israelis left Hor Mountain and traveled on the road towards the Red Sea, in order to go around [the land of] Edom. But the people became impatient along the way,
5 E o povo falou contra Deus e contra Moisés: Porque nos fizestes subir do Egito para que morressemos neste deserto? pois aqui nem pão nem água há: e a nossa alma tem fastio deste pão tão vil
and they began to grumble/complain against God and against Moses/me. They said, “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in this desert [RHQ]? There is nothing to eat here, and nothing to drink. And we detest this lousy [manna] food!”
6 Então o Senhor mandou entre o povo serpentes ardentes, que morderam o povo; e morreu muito povo de Israel.
So Yahweh sent poisonous snakes among them. Many of the people were bitten by the snakes and died.
7 Pelo que o povo veio a Moisés, e disse: Havemos pecado, porquanto temos falado contra o Senhor e contra ti; ora ao Senhor que tire de nós estas serpentes. Então Moisés orou pelo povo.
Then the people came to Moses/me and cried out, saying, “We [now know that we] have sinned against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, asking that he will take away the snakes!” So Moses/I prayed for the people.
8 E disse o Senhor a Moisés: Faze-te uma serpente ardente, e põe-na sobre uma haste: e será que viverá todo o mordido que atentar para ela.
Then Yahweh told him/me, “Make a model/image of a poisonous snake, and attach it to the top of a pole. If those who are bitten by the snakes look at that model, they will (recover/get well).”
9 E Moisés fez uma serpente de metal, e pô-la sobre uma haste; e era que, mordendo alguma serpente a alguém, atentava para a serpente de metal, e ficava vivo.
So Moses/I made a snake from bronze and attached it to the top of a pole. Then, when those who had been bitten by a snake looked at the bronze snake, they recovered!
10 Então os filhos de Israel partiram, e alojaram-se em Oboth.
Then the Israelis traveled to Oboth and (camped/set up their tents) there.
11 Depois partiram de Oboth, e alojaram-se nos outeiros de Abarim, no deserto que está defronte de Moab, ao nascente do sol.
Then they left there, and went to Iye-Abarim, in the desert on the eastern border of Moab.
12 Dali partiram, e alojaram-se junto ao ribeiro de Zered.
From there they traveled to the valley where the Zered riverbed is, and camped there.
13 E dali partiram, e alojaram-se desta banda de Arnon, que está no deserto e sai dos termos dos amorreus: porque Arnon é o termo de Moab, entre Moab e os amorreus.
Then they traveled to the north side of the Arnon [River]. That area is in the desert next to the land where the Amor people-group lived. The Arnon [River] is the boundary between Moab and where the Amor people-group lived.
14 Pelo que se diz no livro das guerras do Senhor: Contra Vaheb em Supha, e contra os ribeiros de Arnon,
That is why in the book called ‘The Book of the Wars of Yahweh’ it tells about “Waheb [town] in the Suphah area, and the ravines there; and the Arnon [River]
15 E contra a corrente dos ribeiros, que se volve para a situação de Ar, e se encosta aos termos de Moab.
and the ravines there, which extend as far as Ar [village] on the border of Moab.”
16 E dali se partiram a Beer; este é o poço do qual o Senhor disse a Moisés: Ajunta o povo, e lhe darei água
From there, the Israelis traveled to Beer. There was a well there, where Yahweh previously had said to Moses/me, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
17 (Então Israel cantou este cântico: Sobe, poço, cantai dele:
There the Israelis sang this song: “O well, give us water! Sing about this well!
18 Tu, poço, que cavaram os príncipes, que escavaram os nobres do povo, e o legislador com os seus bordões): e do deserto partiram para Mattana;
Sing about this well which our leaders dug; they dug out [the dirt] with their royal scepters and their walking sticks.” Then the Israelis left that desert and went through Mattanah,
19 E de Mattana a Nahaliel, e de Nahaliel a Bamoth;
Nahaliel, and Bamoth [villages].
20 E de Bamoth ao vale que está no campo de Moab, no cume de Pisga, e à vista do deserto.
Then they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah [Mountain] rises above the desert.
21 Então Israel mandou mensageiros a Sehon, rei dos amorreus, dizendo:
Then the Israelis sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group. This was the message [that they/we gave him]:
22 Deixa-me passar pela tua terra; não nos desviaremos pelos campos nem pelas vinhas: as águas dos poços não beberemos: iremos pela estrada real até que passemos os teus termos.
“Allow us to travel through your country. We will stay on the king’s highway, [the main road that goes from the south to the north], until we have finished traveling through your land. We will not walk through any field or vineyard, or drink water from your wells.”
23 Porem Sehon não deixou passar a Israel pelos seus termos; antes Sehon congregou todo o seu povo, e saiu ao encontro de Israel ao deserto, e veio a Jazha, e pelejou contra Israel.
But King Sihon refused. He would not allow them to walk through his land. Instead, he sent his whole army to attack the Israelis in the desert. They attacked the Israelis at Jahaz [village].
24 Mas Israel o feriu ao fio da espada, e tomou a sua terra em possessão, desde Arnon até Jabbok, até aos filhos de Ammon: porquanto o termo dos filhos de Ammon era firme.
But the Israelis completely defeated them and occupied their land, from the Arnon [River in the south] to the Jabbok [River in the north]. They stopped at the border of the land where the Ammon people-group lived, because [the Ammon army was defending] the border strongly.
25 Assim Israel tomou todas estas cidades: e Israel habitou em todas as cidades dos amorreus, em Hesbon e em todas as suas aldeias.
So the Israelis occupied all the cities and towns where the Amor people-group lived, and some of the Israelis began to live in them. They occupied Heshbon [city] and the nearby villages.
26 Porque Hesbon era cidade de Sehon, rei dos amorreus, e tinha pelejado contra o precedente rei dos moabitas, e tinha tomado da sua mão toda a sua terra até Arnon.
Heshbon was the capital of the country. It was the city where King Sihon ruled. His army had previously defeated the army of the king of Moab, and then his people had begun to live in all of the land of Moab as far as the Arnon [River in the south].
27 Pelo que dizem os que falam em provérbios: Vinde a Hesbon; edifique-se e fortifique-se a cidade de Sehon.
For that reason, one of the poets wrote long ago, “Come to Heshbon, the city where King Sihon [ruled]. We want the city to be restored/rebuilt.
28 Porque fogo saiu de Hesbon, e uma chama da cidade de Sehon: e consumiu a Ar dos moabitas, e os senhores dos altos de Arnon.
A fire blazed from Heshbon; it burned down Ar [city] in Moab, it destroyed [everything on] the hills along the Arnon [River].
29 Ai de ti, Moab! perdido és, povo de Chamoz! entregou seus filhos, que iam fugindo, e suas filhas, a ser cativos a Sehon, rei dos amorreus.
You people of Moab, terrible things have happened to you! You people who [worship your god] Chemosh have been (annihilated/wiped out)! The men who [worshiped] [MET] Chemosh have run away and are now refugees, and the women [who worshiped him] have been captured by [the army of] Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group.
30 E nós os derrubamos: Hesbon perdida é até Dibon, e os assolamos até Nophah, que se estende até Medeba
But we have defeated [Sihon and] those descendants of Amor, all the way from Heshbon [in the north] to Dibon [city in the south]. We have completely obliterated/destroyed them as far as Nophah and Medeba [towns].”
31 Assim Israel habitou na terra dos amorreus.
So the Israeli people began to live in the land where the Amor people-group lived.
32 Depois mandou Moisés espiar a Jaezer, e tomaram as suas aldeias, e daquela possessão lançaram os amorreus que estavam ali.
After Moses/I sent some men to explore the area near Jazer [city], Israeli people began to live in all the towns in that region and expelled the Amor people-group who lived there.
33 Então viraram-se, e subiram o caminho de Basan: e Og, rei de Basan, saiu contra eles, ele e todo o seu povo, à peleja em Edrei.
Then they turned [north] toward the Bashan region, but King Og of Bashan and all his army attacked them at Edrei [town].
34 E disse o Senhor a Moisés: Não o temas, porque eu to tenho dado na tua mão, a ele, e a todo o seu povo, e a sua terra, e far-lhe-ás como fizeste a Sehon, rei dos amorreus, que habitava em Hesbon.
Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Do not be afraid of Og, because I am going to enable your men to defeat him and his army, and to take possession of all his land. You will do to him what you did to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who ruled in Heshbon.”
35 E de tal maneira o feriram, a ele e a seus filhos, e a todo o seu povo, que nenhum deles escapou: e tomaram a sua terra em possessão.
And that is what happened. We Israelis defeated Og’s army, and killed King Og and his sons and all his people. Not a person survived! And then we Israelis began to live in their land.
