Êxodo 23
1 Não admitirás falso rumor. Não serás cúmplice com o ímpio para ser falsa testemunha.
“Do not tell to others (false rumors/untrue reports) about other people. Do not help someone who is guilty by (testifying falsely/lying) [about what happened].
2 Não seguirás aos muitos para mal fazer; nem responderás em litigio inclinando-te à maioria para fazer injustiças;
Do not join a group of people who are planning to do something evil. Do not testify the way the [crowd wants you to], if that will prevent [the judge from deciding the case] justly/fairly.
3 nem ao pobre privilegiarás em sua causa.
When a poor person is on trial, do not [testify in] his favor [just] because he is poor [and you feel sorry for him].
4 Se encontrares o boi de teu inimigo ou seu asno extraviado, traze-o de volta.
If you see someone’s bull or donkey when it is wandering away [loose], take it back to [its owner, even if the owner] is your enemy.
5 Se vires o asno do que te aborrece caído debaixo de sua carga, lhe deixarás então desamparado? Sem falta ajudarás com ele a levantá-lo.
If you see someone’s donkey that has fallen down [because of its heavy load], help the owner to get the donkey up again, [even if] he is someone who hates you. Do not just walk away [without helping him].
6 Não perverterás o direito de teu pobre em seu pleito.
Decide the cases of poor people who are on trial [as] fairly [as you decide the cases of other people].
7 De palavra de mentira te afastarás, e não matarás ao inocente e justo; porque eu não justificarei ao ímpio.
Do not accuse people falsely. Do not decide that innocent and righteous [DOU] people should be executed, because I will (punish/not forgive) people who do such an evil thing.
8 Não receberás suborno; porque o suborno cega aos que veem, e perverte as palavras justas.
Do not accept money that is a bribe, because officials who accept bribes are not able to [MTY] decide what is right to do, and they do not allow innocent people to be treated fairly.
9 E não angustiarás ao estrangeiro: pois vós sabeis como se acha a alma do estrangeiro, já que estrangeiros fostes na terra do Egito.
Do not mistreat foreigners [who live among you]. You know [how people often treat] foreigners, because the Egyptians [did not treat you well when] you were foreigners there.
10 Seis anos semearás tua terra, e recolherás sua colheita:
Plant [seeds] in your ground and gather the harvest for six years.
11 Mas no sétimo a deixarás vazia e liberarás, para que comam os pobres de teu povo; e do que restar comerão os animais do campo; assim farás de tua vinha e de teu olival.
But during the seventh year you must not plant anything. [If things grow without your planting seeds], allow poor people [to harvest and] eat the crops. If there are still crops (left over/that they do not harvest), allow wild animals to eat them. Do the same thing with your grapevines/vineyards and your olive trees.
12 Seis dias farás teus negócios, e ao sétimo dia folgarás, a fim que descanse teu boi e teu asno, e tome refrigério o filho de tua serva, e o estrangeiro.
[You may] work for six days [each week], but on the seventh day you must rest [and not work]. And on the seventh day you must allow your work animals and your slaves and the foreigners [who live among you] also [to rest and] be refreshed.
13 E em tudo o que vos disse sereis avisados. E nome de outros deuses não mencionareis, nem se ouvirá de vossa boca.
Make certain that you obey everything that I have commanded [you to do]. Do not pray to [MTY] other gods. Do not even mention their names.”
14 Três vezes no ano me celebrareis festa.
“Every year you must celebrate three festivals to [honor] me.
15 A festa dos pães ázimos guardarás: Sete dias comerás os pães sem levedura, como eu te mandei, no tempo do mês de Abibe; porque nele saíste do Egito: e ninguém comparecerá vazio diante de mim:
[The first one] is the Festival of Bread That Has No Yeast. Celebrate it in the month [that is named] Abib. That is the month in which you left Egypt. Celebrate it in the way that I commanded you. And always bring [LIT] an offering when you come to worship me.
16 Também a festa da colheita, os primeiros frutos de teus trabalhos que houveres semeado no campo; e a festa da colheita à saída do ano, quando haverás recolhido teus trabalhos do campo.
The second one is the Festival of Harvesting. During that festival you must offer to me the first parts/harvest of your crops that grow from the seeds that you planted. The third one is the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters. That will be after you finish harvesting your grain and grapes and fruit.
17 Três vezes no ano comparecerá todo homem teu diante do Senhor DEUS.
Every year, at each of these times, all the men must gather together to worship me, Yahweh God.
18 Não oferecerás com pão levedado o sangue de meu sacrifício, nem a gordura de meu animal sacrificado ficará da noite até a manhã.
When you sacrifice an animal [and offer it] to me, you must not offer bread that has been baked with yeast. [When you] offer sacrifices, [burn] the fat [from the animals on that same day]. Do not allow any fat to remain until the next morning.
19 As primícias dos primeiros frutos de tua terra trarás à casa do SENHOR teu Deus. Não cozerás o cabrito com o leite de sua mãe.
Each year, when you harvest your crops, bring to the place where you worship me, Yahweh God, the first part of what you harvest. When you kill a (young animal/kid [or lamb or calf)], do not [prepare to eat it by] boiling it in its mother’s milk.”
20 Eis que eu envio o anjo diante de ti para que te guarde no caminho, e te introduza no lugar que eu preparei.
“Note this: I am going to send an angel ahead of you, to guard you as you travel and to bring you safely to the place that I have prepared [for you]. Pay attention to what he says and obey him. Do not rebel against him, because he will have my authority [MTY] and he will (punish/not forgive) [LIT] you if you rebel against him.
21 Guarda-te diante dele, e ouve sua voz; não lhe sejas rebelde; porque ele não perdoará vossa rebelião: porque meu nome está nele.
22 Porém se em verdade ouvires sua voz, e fizeres tudo o que eu te disser, serei inimigo a teus inimigos, e afligirei aos que te afligirem.
But if you pay attention to what he says and if you do all that I tell you [to do], I will fight strongly [DOU] against all of your enemies.
23 Porque meu anjo irá adiante de ti, e te introduzirá aos amorreus, e aos heteus, e aos perizeus, e aos cananeus, e aos heveus, e aos jebuseus, aos quais eu farei destruir.
My angel will go ahead of you, and will take you to where the Amor and Heth and Periz and Canaan and Hiv and Jebus people-groups live, and I will completely get rid of them.
24 Não te inclinarás a seus deuses, nem os servirás, nem farás como eles fazem; antes os destruirás por completo, e quebrarás inteiramente suas estátuas.
Do not bow down before their gods/idols or worship them. And do not do the things [that they think that their gods want] them to do. Completely destroy their gods/idols, and smash to pieces their sacred stones.
25 Mas ao SENHOR vosso Deus servireis, e ele abençoará teu pão e tuas águas; e eu tirarei toda enfermidade do meio de ti.
You must worship me, Yahweh God. [If you do that], I will bless your (OR, bless [you by giving you]) food and water, and I will protect you from becoming sick.
26 Não haverá mulher que aborte, nem estéril em tua terra; e eu cumprirei o número de teus dias.
No women in your land will have (miscarriages/babies that will die after being born prematurely), and no women will be unable to become pregnant. And I will enable you to live a long time.
27 Eu enviarei meu terror diante de ti, e abaterei a todo povo onde tu entrares, e te darei o pescoço de todos os teus inimigos.
I will cause the people who oppose you to become very afraid of me. I will cause the people whom you fight against to become very confused. And then I will cause them to turn around and run away from you.
28 Eu enviarei a vespa diante de ti, que lance fora aos heveus, e aos cananeus, e aos heteus, de diante de ti:
I will cause your enemies to become terrified. And I will expel the Hiv, Canaan, and Heth people-groups from your land.
29 Não os expulsarei de diante de ti em ano, para que não fique a terra deserta, e se aumentem contra ti as feras do campo.
I will not expel [all of] them in less than one year. If I did that, your land would become deserted, and there would be very many wild animals ([that would attack you/you would not be able to control]).
30 Pouco a pouco os expulsarei de diante de ti, até que te multipliques e tomes a terra por herança.
I will expel those people-groups slowly, a few at a time, until the number of your people increases and you are able to live everywhere in the land.
31 E eu porei teu termo desde o mar Vermelho até o mar de filístia, e desde o deserto até o rio: porque porei em vossas mãos os moradores da terra, e tu os expulsarás de diante de ti.
I will cause the borders of your land to extend from the (Red Sea/Gulf of Aqaba) [in the southeast] to the Mediterranean Sea [in the northwest], and from the [Sinai] Desert [in the southwest] to the [Euphrates] River [in the northeast of the country]. I will enable you [MTY] to expel the people who live there, so that you will expel them as you occupy more of the country.
32 Não farás aliança com eles, nem com seus deuses.
You must not make any agreement/treaty with those people or with their gods.
33 Em tua terra não habitarão, não seja que te façam pecar contra mim servindo a seus deuses: porque te será de tropeço.
Do not allow [those people] to live in your land, in order that they do not cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, [you will not be able to escape from worshiping them and sinning against me, just like someone caught] in a trap [is unable to escape] [MET].”
