Josué 8
1 E o SENHOR disse a Josué: Não temas, nem desmaies; toma contigo toda a gente de guerra, e levanta-te e sobe a Ai. Olha, eu entreguei em tua mão ao rei de Ai, e a seu povo, a sua cidade, e a sua terra.
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged [because of what happened at] Ai. Lead all of your soldiers and go there again. I will help you to defeat the king of Ai, his people, and his city, and [enable you to take] his land.
2 E farás a Ai e a seu rei como fizeste a Jericó e a seu rei: somente que seus despojos e seus animais tomareis para vós. Porás, pois, emboscadas à cidade detrás dela.
Your army will do to the people of Ai and their king like what you did to the people of Jericho and their king. But this time [I will permit you to] take all their possessions and keep them for yourselves. But first, tell some of your soldiers to [hide behind] the city [and] prepare to suddenly attack it.”
3 E levantou-se Josué, e toda a gente de guerra, para subir contra Ai: e escolheu Josué trinta mil homens fortes, os quais enviou de noite.
So Joshua led all his army toward Ai. He chose 30,000 of his best fighters/warriors and prepared to send them out during the night.
4 E mandou-lhes, dizendo: Olhai, poreis emboscada à cidade detrás dela: não vos afastareis muito da cidade, e estareis todos prontos.
He said to them, “Listen carefully. Some of you must hide on the other side of the city. Do not go far from the city. Just be ready [to attack].
5 E eu, e todo aquele povo que está comigo, nos aproximaremos da cidade; e quando saírem eles contra nós, como fizeram antes, fugiremos diante deles.
I and the men who are with me will march toward the city [in the morning]. The men in the city will come out to fight us, like they did before. Then we will turn around and start to run away from them.
6 E eles sairão atrás de nós, até que os tiremos da cidade; porque eles dirão: Fogem de nós como a primeira vez. Fugiremos, pois, diante deles.
They will think that we are running away from them like we did before. So they will chase us away from the city. While we are running away,
7 Então vós vos levantareis da emboscada, e vos lançareis sobre a cidade; pois o SENHOR vosso Deus a entregará em vossas mãos.
[those of you who are hiding come out and] rush into the city and capture it. Yahweh your God will enable you to conquer it.
8 E quando a houverdes tomado, poreis fogo nela. Fareis conforme a palavra do SENHOR. Olhai que vos o mandei.
After you capture the city, burn it. Do what Yahweh has commanded us to do. Those are the orders I am giving to you.”
9 Então Josué os enviou; e eles se foram à emboscada, e puseram-se entre Betel e Ai, ao ocidente de Ai: e Josué ficou aquela noite em meio do povo.
Then Joshua [prepared to] send some of them to [hide and] wait between Ai and Bethel, which was west of Ai. But Joshua stayed with his other soldiers that night.
10 E levantando-se Josué muito de manhã, revistou ao povo, e subiu ele, com os anciãos de Israel, diante do povo contra Ai.
Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. Then he and the other Israeli leaders led them up to Ai.
11 E toda a gente de guerra que com ele estava, subiu, e aproximou-se, e chegaram diante da cidade, e assentaram o campo à parte do norte de Ai: e o vale estava entre ele e Ai.
They all set up their tents close to Ai, just to the north of the city, where all the people of the city could see them. There was a valley between them and the city.
12 E tomou como cinco mil homens, e os pôs em emboscada entre Betel e Ai, à parte ocidental da cidade.
Then Joshua chose about 5,000 men and told them to go and hide just west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.
13 E o povo, todo aquele acampamento que estava à parte do norte da cidade, colocado já próximo, e sua emboscada ao ocidente da cidade, veio Josué aquela noite ao meio do vale.
So those men did that. The main group of soldiers was north of the city, and the others were hiding west of the city. That night Joshua went down into the valley.
14 O qual quando o rei de Ai viu, levantou-se prontamente de manhã, e saiu com a gente da cidade contra Israel, ele e todo seu povo, para combater pela planície ao tempo assinalado, não sabendo que lhe estava posta emboscada atrás da cidade.
When the king of Ai saw the Israeli army, he and his soldiers got up early the next morning and quickly went out of the city to fight them. They went to a place east of the city, but they did not know that some Israeli soldiers were hiding behind the city.
15 Então Josué e todo Israel, fazendo-se de vencidos, fugiram diante deles pelo caminho do deserto.
Joshua and the Israeli soldiers [who were with him] allowed the army of Ai to push them back. They ran toward the desert.
16 E todo aquele povo que estava em Ai se juntou para segui-los: e seguiram a Josué, sendo assim tirados da cidade.
The men in Ai were ordered to chase after Joshua and his men. So they left the city and started to pursue the Israelis.
17 E não ficou homem em Ai e Betel, que não tivesse saído atrás de Israel; e por perseguir a Israel deixaram a cidade aberta.
All the men of Ai and the men of Bethel pursued the Israeli army. They did not leave even one man in Ai to defend it. The [gates of the] city were left wide open.
18 Então o SENHOR disse a Josué: Levanta a lança que tens em tua mão até Ai, porque eu a entregarei em tua mão. E Josué levantou até a cidade a lança que em sua mão tinha.
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “[Lift up] your spear [and] point it toward Ai, because I am going to enable your soldiers to capture it!” So Joshua pointed [his spear] toward Ai.
19 E levantando-se prontamente de seu lugar os que estavam na emboscada, correram logo que ele levantou sua mão, e vieram à cidade, e a tomaram, e apressaram-se a por-lhe fogo.
When the Israeli men who were hiding saw that, they rushed out from the places where they were hiding and ran into the city. They quickly captured it and set it on fire.
20 E quando os da cidade olharam atrás, observaram, e eis que a fumaça da cidade que subia ao céu, e não puderam fugir nem a uma parte nem à outra: e o povo que ia fugindo até o deserto, se voltou contra os que o seguiam.
When the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke rising from their city. But they could not escape, because the Israeli troops stopped running away.
21 Josué e todo Israel, vendo que os da emboscada tomaram a cidade, e que a fumaça da cidade subia, voltaram, e feriram aos de Ai.
Joshua and his men saw that the men who had been hiding had captured the city and were burning it, and they saw the smoke rising. So they turned around and started to attack the men of Ai.
22 E os outros saíram da cidade a seu encontro: e assim foram cercados em meio de Israel, os uns da uma parte, e os outros da outra. E os feriram até que não restou nenhum deles que escapasse.
Meanwhile, the soldiers who had captured the city came out [and attacked them from the rear]. So the men of Ai were caught between the two groups of Israeli soldiers. None of the men of Ai escaped. The Israelis fought until they killed all of them. Only the king of Ai was still alive.
23 E tomaram vivo ao rei de Ai, e trouxeram-lhe a Josué.
Then they seized the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
24 E quando os israelitas acabaram de matar a todos os moradores de Ai no campo, no deserto, onde eles os haviam perseguido, e que todos haviam caído a fio de espada até serem consumidos, todos os israelitas se voltaram a Ai, e também a feriram à espada.
While they were fighting, the Israeli army pursued the men of Ai into the fields and into the desert, and killed all of them. Then they went to Ai and killed everyone who was there.
25 E o número dos que caíram aquele dia, homens e mulheres, foi doze mil, todos os de Ai.
They killed 12,000 men and women.
26 E Josué não retraiu sua mão que havia estendido com a lança, até que destruiu a todos os moradores de Ai.
Joshua continued to point his spear [LIT] toward Ai, until all the people in Ai had been killed.
27 Porém os israelitas tomaram para si os animais e os despojos da cidade, conforme a palavra do SENHOR que ele havia mandado a Josué.
The Israeli soldiers took for themselves the animals and the other things that had belonged to the people of Ai, just like Yahweh had told Joshua that they should do.
28 E Josué queimou a Ai e reduziu-a a um amontoado perpétuo, assolado até hoje.
Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai city and caused it to become a pile of ruins. It is still like that today.
29 Mas ao rei de Ai enforcou de um madeiro até à tarde: e quando o sol se pôs, mandou Josué que tirassem do madeiro seu corpo, e o lançassem à porta da cidade: e levantaram sobre ele um grande amontoado de pedras, até hoje.
Joshua hanged the king of Ai on a tree and left his corpse hanging there until the evening. At sunset Joshua told his men to take the king’s corpse down from the tree and to throw it on the ground at the city gate. [After they did that], they piled a lot of rocks on top of the corpse, and that pile of rocks is still there.
30 Então Josué edificou um altar ao SENHOR Deus de Israel no monte de Ebal,
Joshua [told his men to] build on Ebal Mountain an altar for Yahweh, the God [who is worshiped by] the Israeli people.
31 Como Moisés, servo do SENHOR, o havia mandado aos filhos de Israel, como está escrito no livro da lei de Moisés, um altar de pedras inteiras sobre as quais ninguém levantou ferro: e ofereceram sobre ele holocaustos ao SENHOR, e sacrificaram ofertas pacíficas.
They built it just like Moses, the man who served God [well], had written previously in the laws [that God had given to him]. They made it from stones that had not been cut using iron tools. The Israelis then offered sacrifices to Yahweh that were burned completely on the altar. They also offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh.
32 Também escreveu ali em pedras a repetição da lei de Moisés, a qual ele havia escrito diante dos filhos de Israel.
As the Israelis watched, Joshua wrote on stones the laws that [Yahweh had given] to Moses previously.
33 E todo Israel, e seus anciãos, oficiais, e juízes, estavam da uma e da outra parte junto à arca, diante dos sacerdotes levitas que levam a arca do pacto do SENHOR; tanto estrangeiros como naturais, a metade deles estava até o monte de Gerizim, e a outra metade até o monte de Ebal; da maneira que Moisés, servo do SENHOR, havia lhe mandado antes, para que abençoassem primeiramente ao povo de Israel.
The Israeli leaders, the officials, the judges, and other Israelis were there, standing nearby. Many people who were not Israelis were also there. Half of the people stood [on one side of the valley] below Ebal Mountain, and the other half of the people stood [on the other side of the valley] below Gerizim Mountain. The sacred chest was [in the valley] between the two groups. That was what Moses had previously commanded that the people should do when [Yahweh was about to] bless them.
34 Depois disto, leu todas as palavras da lei, as bênçãos e as maldições, conforme tudo o que está escrito no livro da lei.
Then Joshua read [to the people] all that [Moses] had written previously. That included what Yahweh had taught them and the ways [that he promised] to bless them [if they obeyed his commands], or to curse them [if they disobeyed them].
35 Não houve palavra alguma de todas as coisas que mandou Moisés, que Josué não fizesse ler diante de toda a congregação de Israel, mulheres e meninos, e estrangeiros que andavam entre eles.
All the Israelis gathered together [to listen]—the men, the women, and the children. The (foreigners/people who were not Israelis) who were living among them also listened, while Joshua read all the commands that Moses had written.
