Deuteronômio 7
1 Quando o SENHOR teu Deus te houver introduzido na terra na qual tu hás de entrar para possuí-la, e houver expulsado de diante de ti muitas nações, aos heteus, aos gergeseus, e aos amorreus, e aos cananeus, e aos perizeus, e aos heveus, e aos jebuseus, sete nações maiores e mais fortes que tu;
“Yahweh our God will bring you to the land that you will soon enter and occupy. As you advance, he will expel from that land seven people-groups that are more powerful and more numerous than you are. He will expel the Heth people-group, the Girgash people-group, the Amor people-group, the Canaan people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group.
2 E o SENHOR teu Deus as houver entregue diante de ti, e as ferires, por completo as destruirás: não farás com eles aliança, nem as pouparás.
When Yahweh our God enables you to defeat [DOU] them, you must kill all of them. You must not make (an alliance/a peace treaty) with any of them. You must not act mercifully toward them.
3 E não aparentarás com eles: não darás tua filha a seu filho, nem tomarás a sua filha para teu filho.
You must not marry any of them. You must not allow your daughters to marry any of their sons or allow your sons to marry any of their daughters.
4 Porque desviará a teu filho de me seguir, e servirão a deuses alheios; e o furor do SENHOR se acenderá sobre vós, e te destruirá logo.
Because, if you did that, those people would cause your children to stop worshiping Yahweh and to worship other gods. If that happens, Yahweh will be very angry with you and he will get rid of you immediately.
5 Mas assim haveis de fazer com eles: destruireis seus altares, e quebrareis suas colunas sagradas, cortareis seus mastros de idolatria, e queimareis suas esculturas a fogo.
This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their (altars/places for sacrificing animals), break apart the stone pillars [that are dedicated to their male god Baal], cut down the [poles that they use when they worship the goddess] Asherah, and burn their [wooden] idols.
6 Porque tu és povo santo ao SENHOR teu Deus: o SENHOR teu Deus te escolheu para ser-lhe um povo especial, mais que todos os povos que estão sobre a face da terra.
You must do that because you are a group of people who belong to Yahweh our God. He has chosen you from among all the people-groups in the world to be his own special people.
7 Não por ser vós mais que todos os povos vos quis o SENHOR, e vos escolheu; porque vós éreis os menores de todos os povos:
“It was not because you were more numerous than any other people-group that Yahweh preferred you; you are one of the smallest people-groups on the earth.
8 Mas sim porque o SENHOR vos amou, e quis guardar o juramento que jurou a vossos pais, vos tirou o SENHOR com mão forte, e vos resgatou de casa de servos, da mão de Faraó, rei do Egito.
Instead, it is because Yahweh loved you and because he wanted to do what he vowed to your ancestors. That is the reason that he rescued you by his great power [MTY], and freed you from being slaves [MTY] of the king of Egypt.
9 Conhece, pois, que o SENHOR teu Deus é Deus, Deus fiel, que guarda o pacto e a misericórdia aos que lhe amam e guardam seus mandamentos, até as mil gerações;
So do not forget that Yahweh our God is the only/true God. He will do what he agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love (for 1,000 generations/forever) all those who love him and who obey his commandments.
10 E que retribui em sua face ao que lhe aborrece, destruindo-o: nem o dilatará ao que lhe odeia, em sua face lhe retribuirá.
But for those who hate him, he will (pay them back/do to them what they deserve); he will punish them and quickly get rid of them.
11 Guarda portanto os mandamentos, e estatutos, e regulamentos que eu te mando hoje que cumpras.
“So you must be sure to obey all the commandments and rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.
12 E será que, por haver ouvido estes regulamentos, e guardado e os praticado, o SENHOR teu Deus guardará contigo o pacto e a misericórdia que jurou a teus pais;
If you heed these commands and obey them faithfully, Yahweh our God will do what he has agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love you, which is what he vowed to your ancestors that he would do.
13 E te amará, e te abençoará, e te multiplicará, e abençoará o fruto de teu ventre, e o fruto de tua terra, e teu grão, e teu mosto, e teu azeite, a cria de tuas vacas, e os rebanhos de tuas ovelhas, na terra que jurou a teus pais que te daria.
He will love you and bless you. He will enable you to have many children [DOU]. He will bless your fields, with the result that you will have plenty of grain and [grapes to make] wine and plenty of [olive] oil. You will have many cattle and sheep. He will do all these things for you in the land that he promised to your ancestors that he would give to you.
14 Bendito serás mais que todos os povos: não haverá em ti homem nem mulher estéril, nem em teus animais.
He will bless you more than he will bless any other people-group. All of you will be able to have/produce children [LIT]. All of your livestock will be able to produce offspring.
15 E tirará o SENHOR de ti toda enfermidade; e todas as más pragas do Egito, que tu sabes, não as porá sobre ti, antes as porá sobre todos os que te odiarem.
And Yahweh will protect you from all illnesses. You will not be afflicted with any of the dreadful diseases that [our ancestors knew about] in Egypt, but all your enemies will be inflicted with those diseases.
16 E consumirás a todos os povos que te dá o SENHOR teu Deus: não os perdoará teu olho; nem servirás a seus deuses, que te será tropeço.
You must get rid of all the people-groups that Yahweh our God will enable you to conquer. Do not [SYN] act mercifully toward any of them. And do not worship their gods, because if you do that, it would be like falling into a trap [from which you will never be able to escape].
17 Quando disseres em teu coração: Estas nações são muitas mais que eu, como as poderei desarraigar?;
“Do not think to yourselves, ‘These people-groups are more numerous/powerful than we are, so we certainly cannot [RHQ] expel them.’
18 Não tenhas medo deles: lembra-te bem do que fez o SENHOR teu Deus com Faraó e com todo o Egito;
Do not be afraid of them. Instead, think about what Yahweh our God did to the king of Egypt and to all the people whom he [ruled].
19 Das grandes provas que viram teus olhos, e dos sinais e milagres, e da mão forte e braço estendido com que o SENHOR teu Deus te tirou: assim fará o SENHOR teu Deus com todos os povos de cuja presença tu temerdes.
Do not forget the terrible plagues that your ancestors saw [Yahweh inflict on the people of Egypt], and the many [DOU] miracles [that he performed], and the very powerful [DOU, MTY] way by which he brought your ancestors out [of Egypt]. Yahweh our God will do the same kind of things to the people-groups that you are afraid of now.
20 E também enviará o SENHOR teu Deus sobre eles vespas, até que pereçam os que restarem, e os que se houverem escondido de diante de ti.
Furthermore, he will cause them to become terrified, and he will destroy those who remain alive and run away to hide from you.
21 Não desmaies diante deles, que o SENHOR teu Deus está em meio de ti, Deus grande e terrível.
Do not be afraid of those people, because Yahweh our God will be with/among you. He is a great God; he is the one you should be afraid of.
22 E o SENHOR teu Deus expulsará a estas nações de diante de ti pouco a pouco: não as poderás acabar logo, para que os animais do campo não se aumentem contra ti.
He will expel those people-groups gradually. You should not [try to] expel all of them at one time, because if you did that, the number of wild animals would quickly increase, [and you would not be able to get rid of them].
23 Mas o SENHOR teu Deus as entregará diante de ti, e ele as quebrantará com grande destroço, até que sejam destruídos.
Instead, Yahweh will enable you to defeat your enemies [one people-group at a time]. He will cause them to panic until they are destroyed.
24 E ele entregará seus reis em tua mão, e tu destruirás o nome deles de debaixo do céu: ninguém te fará testa até que os destruas.
He will enable you to defeat [IDM] their kings. After you kill them, their names will be forgotten {people will forget about them}. No people-group will be able to stop you; you will destroy all of them.
25 As esculturas de seus deuses queimarás no fogo: não cobiçarás prata nem ouro de sobre elas para tomá-lo para ti, para que não tropeces nisso, pois é abominação ao SENHOR teu Deus;
You must burn the wooden idols [that represent] their gods. Do not desire to take the silver or gold [decorations] that are on those idols, because if you take them for yourselves, they will be like a trap [to cause you to want to worship those idols]. Yahweh hates [the worship of those idols].
26 E não meterás abominação em tua casa, para que não sejas anátema como isso; por completo o aborrecerás e o abominarás; porque é anátema.
You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise [DOU] those idols, because they are things that [Yahweh] has cursed.”
