Gênesis 31

1 E ouvia ele as palavras dos filhos de Labão que diziam: Jacó tomou tudo o que era de nosso pai; e do que era de nosso pai adquiriu toda esta grandeza.

Someone told Jacob that Laban’s sons were complaining and saying, “Jacob has become very rich by taking everything [HYP] that belonged to our father.”

2 Olhava também Jacó o semblante de Labão, e via que não era para com ele como antes.

And Jacob noticed that Laban was not acting friendly toward him as he had done before.

3 Também o SENHOR disse a Jacó: Volta-te à terra de teus pais, e à tua parentela; que eu serei contigo.

Then Yahweh said to Jacob, “Go back to your country and your relatives, and I will help you there.”

4 E enviou Jacó, e chamou a Raquel e a Lia ao campo a suas ovelhas,

So Jacob sent a message to Rachel and Leah, telling them to come out to the pastures where his flocks of sheep and goats were.

5 E disse-lhes: Vejo que o semblante de vosso pai não é para comigo como antes: mas o Deus de meu pai tem sido comigo.

When they arrived, he said to them, “I see that your father does not act friendly toward me as he did previously. But God, whom my father worshiped, has helped me.

6 E vós sabeis que com todas minhas forças servi a vosso pai:

You two know that I have worked very hard for your father,

7 E vosso pai me enganou, e me mudou o salário dez vezes: mas Deus não lhe permitiu que me fizesse mal.

but many times [HYP] he has cheated me by decreasing my wages. But God has not allowed him to harm me.

8 Se ele dizia assim: Os pintados serão teu salário; então todas as ovelhas geravam pintados: e se dizia assim: Os listrados serão teu salário; então todas as ovelhas geravam listrados.

When Laban said, ‘The speckled animals are the ones that I will give you to be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to young ones that were speckled. When he changed and said, ‘The ones that have black and white stripes on them will be your wages,’ then all the animals gave birth to young ones that were striped.

9 Assim tirou Deus o gado de vosso pai, e deu-o a mim.

In that way, God has taken away the livestock that belonged to your father and has given them to me.

10 E sucedeu que ao tempo que as ovelhas se aqueciam, levantei eu meus olhos e vi em sonhos, e eis que os machos que cobriam às fêmeas eram listrados, pintados e malhados.

“One time, when the animals were mating, I had a dream. In my dream I [looked up and was surprised to] see that some of the male goats that were mating with the female goats had black and white stripes on them, some were speckled, and some were spotted.

11 E disse-me o anjo de Deus em sonhos: Jacó. E eu disse: Eis-me aqui.

An angel who was sent by God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob!’ I replied, ‘I am here!’

12 E ele disse: Levanta agora teus olhos, e verás todos os machos que cobrem às ovelhas são listrados, pintados e malhados; porque eu vi tudo o que Labão te fez.

He said to me, ‘Look up and you will see that all the male goats that are mating have black and white stripes on them, or are speckled or spotted. This is happening because I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

13 Eu sou o Deus de Betel, onde tu ungiste a coluna, e onde me fizeste um voto. Levanta-te agora, e sai desta terra, e volta-te à terra de teu nascimento.

I am God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you set up a stone to show that the place was holy, and you poured [olive] oil on the stone and made a solemn promise to me. So now leave this land immediately, and return to the land where you were born.’”

14 E respondeu Raquel e Lia, e disseram-lhe: Temos ainda parte ou herança na casa de nosso pai?

Rachel and Leah replied, “Our father will not give us anything more when he dies [RHQ].

15 Não nos tem já como por estranhas, pois que nos vendeu, e ainda consumiu de todo nosso valor?

He treats us as though we were foreigners [RHQ]! [Your working for him all these years was like a payment] that you gave him as a price for us, but we will not inherit any of that money that he got as a price for us. He has spent it all!

16 Porque toda a riqueza que Deus tirou a nosso pai, nossa é e de nossos filhos: agora, pois, faze tudo o que Deus te disse.

Surely all of the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you to do!”

17 Então se levantou Jacó, e subiu seus filhos e suas mulheres sobre os camelos.

Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels.

18 E pôs em caminho todo seu gado, e todos os seus pertences que havia adquirido, o gado de seu ganho que havia obtido em Padã-Arã, para voltar-se a Isaque seu pai na terra de Canaã.

He made all his livestock go ahead of him. Besides the livestock, he took along all the other things that he had acquired while living in Paddan-Aram. And they prepared to return to his father Isaac, in the Canaan region.

19 E Labão havia ido tosquiar suas ovelhas; e Raquel furtou os ídolos de seu pai.

Before they left, while Laban was shearing his sheep, Rachel stole the [small wooden] idols [that were in her father’s tent].

20 E enganou Jacó o coração de Labão arameu, em não lhe fazer saber que se fugia.

Furthermore, Jacob deceived Laban, who belonged to the Aram people-group, by not telling him that they were planning to leave.

21 Fugiu, pois, com tudo o que tinha; e levantou-se, e passou o rio, e pôs seu rosto ao monte de Gileade.

So Jacob and his family fled with all their possessions, and they crossed the Euphrates River, and then started traveling south toward the hilly Gilead region.

22 E foi dito a Labão ao terceiro dia como Jacó havia fugido.

On the third day after they left, someone told Laban that Jacob and his family had left.

23 Então tomou a seus irmãos consigo, e foi atrás dele caminho de sete dias, e alcançou-lhe no monte de Gileade.

So he took some of his relatives with him and started to pursue Jacob. They continued walking for seven days.

24 E veio Deus a Labão arameu em sonhos aquela noite, e lhe disse: Guarda-te que não fales a Jacó descomedidamente.

Then God appeared to Laban in a dream at night, and said to him, “When you catch up to Jacob, be sure that you do not say anything at all [HYP] to him in an angry manner!”

25 Alcançou, pois, Labão a Jacó, e este havia fixado sua tenda no monte: e Labão pôs a sua com seus irmãos no monte de Gileade.

The next day, by the time Laban caught up with Jacob, Jacob and his household had set up their tents in the hilly Gilead region. So Laban and his relatives set up their tents there, too.

26 E disse Labão a Jacó: Que fizeste, que me furtaste o coração, e trouxeste a minhas filhas como prisioneiras de guerra?

Then Laban went to Jacob and said to him, “Why have you done this? You have deceived me by carrying away my daughters as though you had captured them in a war [MTY]!

27 Por que te escondeste para fugir, e me furtaste, e não me deste notícia, para que eu te enviasse com alegria e com cantares, com tamborim e harpa?

Why did you run away and deceive me? Why did you not tell me that you were going to leave, so that we could have rejoiced and sung while people played music on tambourines and harps before I said ‘goodbye’ to you?

28 Que ainda não me deixaste beijar meus filhos e minhas filhas. Agora loucamente fizeste.

(You did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye before they left!/Why did you not allow me to kiss my grandchildren and daughters goodbye before they left?) [RHQ] What you have done was foolish!

29 Poder há em minha mão para fazer-vos mal; mas o Deus de vosso pai me falou de noite dizendo: Guarda-te que não fales a Jacó descomedidamente.

My relatives and I have the power to harm you, but last night the God whom your father worships said to me in a dream, ‘Be sure that you do not say anything at all to Jacob in an angry way.’

30 E já que te ias, porque tinhas saudade da casa de teu pai, por que me furtaste meus deuses?

Now, I know you have left because you long to go back home. But why did you steal my [wooden] idols?”

31 E Jacó respondeu, e disse a Labão: Pois tive medo; porque disse, que talvez me tirasse à força tuas filhas.

Jacob replied to Laban, saying, “I did not tell you that we were planning to leave, because I was afraid. I thought that [if I told you], you would forcefully take your daughters away from me.

32 Em quem achares teus deuses, não viva: diante de nossos irmãos reconhece o que eu tiver teu, e leva-o. Jacó não sabia que Raquel havia os furtado.

But if you find anyone here who has your wooden idols, we will execute that person. While our relatives are watching, search for yourself to see if there is anything that belongs to you that is here with me. If you find anything, you can take it!” When Jacob said that, he did not know that Rachel had stolen the wooden idols.

33 E entrou Labão na tenda de Jacó, e na tenda de Lia, e na tenda das duas servas, e não os achou, e saiu da tenda de Lia, e veio à tenda de Raquel.

Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and then into Leah’s tent, and then into the tents of the two female slaves and searched for the idols, but he did not find them. After he left their tents, he entered Rachel’s tent.

34 E tomou Raquel os ídolos, e os pôs em uma albarda de um camelo, e sentou-se sobre eles: e provou Labão toda a tenda e não os achou.

But Rachel had previously taken the idols and put them in the saddle of a camel, and she was sitting on the saddle. So when Laban searched all over for them inside Rachel’s tent, he did not find them.

35 E ela disse a seu pai: Não se ire meu senhor, porque não me posso levantar diante de ti; pois estou com o costume das mulheres. E ele buscou, mas não achou os ídolos.

Rachel said to her father, “Do not be angry with me, sir, but I cannot get up in your presence [to show respect for you], because I am having my monthly menstrual period. [EUP]” So when Laban searched some more, he did not find the [wooden] idols.

36 Então Jacó se irou, e brigou com Labão; e respondeu Jacó e disse a Labão: Que transgressão é a minha? Qual é meu pecado, que com tanto ardor vieste a me perseguir?

Then Jacob became angry. He rebuked Laban, saying, “What crime did I commit? For what sin that I committed have you pursued me?

37 Depois que apalpaste todos os meus móveis, acaso achaste algum dos objetos de tua casa? Põe-o aqui diante de meus irmãos e teus, e julguem entre nós ambos.

Now you have searched through all my possessions, and what did you find from all these possessions that belongs to you? Put it here in front of my relatives and your relatives, so that they can decide who is right, you or me!

38 Estes vinte anos estive contigo; tuas ovelhas e tuas cabras nunca abortaram, nem eu comi carneiro de tuas ovelhas.

I was with you for 20 years. In all that time, your sheep and goats have (not miscarried/always given birth to animals safely). I have not [killed and] eaten any rams from your flocks.

39 Nunca te trouxe o arrebatado pelas feras; eu pagava o dano; o furtado tanto de dia como de noite, de minha mão o exigias.

When one of your animals was attacked and mauled/killed by a wild animal, I did not bring it to you. I replaced the dead animal with a living one of my own animals. Whenever one of your animals was stolen, during the day or during the night, you demanded that I replace it with one of my own animals.

40 De dia me consumia o calor, e de noite a geada, e o sono se fugia de meus olhos.

I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was often not even able to sleep [PRS]!

41 Assim estive vinte anos em tua casa: catorze anos te servi por tuas duas filhas, e seis anos por teu gado; e mudaste meu salário dez vezes.

I lived in your household for 20 years. I worked for you for 14 years to buy your two daughters, and for six more years to buy some of your sheep and goats. During that time, you changed and reduced my wages many times [HYP].

42 Se o Deus de meu pai, o Deus de Abraão, e o temor de Isaque, não fossem comigo, certamente me enviarias agora vazio; Deus viu minha aflição e o trabalho de minhas mãos, e repreendeu-te de noite.

If God, the one whom my grandfather Abraham worshiped and before whom my father Isaac trembled in fear, had not been with me and helped me, you would have sent me away (with nothing in my hands/owning nothing)! But God saw how much I was suffering and how hard I was working, so last night he told you that what you have done to me was wrong.”

43 E respondeu Labão, e disse a Jacó: As filhas são filhas minhas, e os filhos, filhos meus são, e as ovelhas são minhas ovelhas, e tudo o que tu vês é meu; e que posso eu fazer hoje a estas minhas filhas, ou a seus filhos que elas geraram?

Laban replied, “These two women are my daughters, and their children are my grandchildren, and the animals are my animals. Everything you see here is mine [HYP]! But what can I do today to keep my daughters or the children they have given birth to [RHQ]?

44 Vem, pois, agora, façamos aliança eu e tu; e seja em testemunho entre mim e ti.

I cannot do anything in order to keep them, so hey, we should make a peace agreement, you and I, and do something that will remind us about our agreement.”

45 Então Jacó tomou uma pedra, e levantou-a por coluna.

So Jacob took a [large] stone and set it on its end.

46 E disse Jacó a seus irmãos: Recolhei pedras. E tomaram pedras e fizeram um amontoado; e comeram ali sobre aquele amontoado.

Then Jacob said to his relatives, “You also gather some stones.” So they gathered some rocks and put them in a heap, and they ate some food there near the heap.

47 E Labão o chamou Jegar-Saaduta; e Jacó o chamou Galeede.

Laban gave the heap the Aramaic name Jegar-Sahadutha, [which means ‘rock-pile to remind us’, ] but Jacob gave the rock-pile the Hebrew name Galeed, [which has the same meaning].

48 Porque Labão disse: Este amontoado é testemunha hoje entre mim e entre ti; por isso foi chamado seu nome Galeede.

Laban said to Jacob, “This pile of rocks we have put here today will help us to remember our agreement.” That is why Jacob called it Galeed.

49 E Mispá, porquanto disse: Vigie o SENHOR entre mim e entre ti, quando nos separarmos um do outro.

They also named the place Mizpah, [which sounds like the Hebrew word that means ‘watchtower’, ] because Laban said, “We will ask Yahweh to watch you and me while we are separated from each other, [so that we do not try to harm each other].

50 Se afligires minhas filhas, ou se tomares outras mulheres além de minhas filhas, ninguém está conosco; olha, Deus é testemunha entre mim e ti.

If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take other women to be your wives, even if no one tells me about it, don’t forget that God sees what you and I are doing!”

51 Disse mais Labão a Jacó: Eis que este amontoado, e eis que esta coluna, que erigi entre mim e ti.

Laban also said to Jacob, “You see this large stone and this pile of rocks that we have set up to be between us.

52 Testemunha seja este amontoado, e testemunha seja esta coluna, que nem eu passarei contra ti este amontoado, nem tu passarás contra mim este amontoado nem esta coluna, para o mal.

Both this pile of rocks and this large stone will remind us, that I will not go past these rocks to harm you, and you will not go past these rocks to harm me.

53 O Deus de Abraão, e o Deus de Naor julgue entre nós, o Deus de seus pais. E Jacó jurou pelo temor de Isaque seu pai.

We will ask the God whom [your grandfather] Abraham and [his father] Nahor worshiped to punish [MTY] either one of us, [if we harm the other one].” So Jacob solemnly promised to do what they said in their peace agreement. And he asked God, the one before whom his father Isaac trembled, to listen to what they promised.

54 Então Jacó ofereceu sacrifícios no monte, e chamou seus parentes para comer pão; e comeram pão, e dormiram aquela noite no monte.

He offered a sacrifice to God there in the hilly area, and he invited his relatives to eat with him. After they had eaten, they slept there that night.

55 E levantou-se Labão de manhã, beijou seus filhos e suas filhas, e os abençoou; e retrocedeu e voltou a seu lugar.

The next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters [goodbye] and asked God to bless them. Then he [and his men] left them and returned home.