Juízes 11
1 Existia então Jefté, gileadita, homem valente, filho de uma prostituta, ao qual havia gerado Gileade.
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.
2 E a mulher de Gileade também lhe havia dado à luz filhos; os quais quando foram grandes, lançaram fora a Jefté, dizendo-lhe: Não herdarás na casa de nosso pai, porque és bastardo.
And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.
3 Fugindo, pois, Jefté por causa de seus irmãos, habitou em terra de Tobe; e juntaram-se com ele homens ociosos, os quais com ele saíam.
So Jephthah went in flight from his brothers and was living in the land of Tob, where a number of good-for-nothing men, joining Jephthah, went out with him on his undertakings.
4 E aconteceu que depois de dias os filhos de Amom fizeram guerra contra Israel:
Now after a time the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
5 E quando os filhos de Amom tinham guerra contra Israel, os anciãos de Gileade foram para fazer voltar a Jefté da terra de Tobe;
And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob;
6 E disseram a Jefté: Vem, e serás nosso capitão, para que lutemos com os filhos de Amom.
And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.
7 E Jefté respondeu aos anciãos de Gileade: Não me odiastes, e me lançastes da casa de meu pai? por que pois vindes agora a mim quando estais em aflição?
But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?
8 E os anciãos de Gileade responderam a Jefté: Por esta mesma causa voltamos agora a ti, para que venhas conosco, e lutes contra os filhos de Amom, e nos sejas cabeça a todos os que moramos em Gileade.
And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so go with us and make war against the children of Ammon, and we will make you our head over all the people of Gilead.
9 Jefté então disse aos anciãos de Gileade: Se me fazeis voltar para que lute contra os filhos de Amom, e o SENHOR os entregar diante de mim, serei eu vossa cabeça?
Then Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, If you take me back to make war against the children of Ammon, and if with the help of the Lord I overcome them, will you make me your head?
10 E os anciãos de Gileade responderam a Jefté: O SENHOR ouça entre nós, se não fizermos como tu dizes.
And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.
11 Então Jefté veio com os anciãos de Gileade, e o povo o elegeu por seu cabeça e príncipe; e Jefté falou todas seus palavras diante do SENHOR em Mispá.
So Jephthah went with the responsible men of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah said all these things before the Lord in Mizpah.
12 E enviou Jefté embaixadores ao rei dos amonitas, dizendo: Que tens tu comigo que vieste a mim para fazer guerra em minha terra?
Then Jephthah sent men to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you against me that you have come to make war against my land?
13 E o rei dos amonitas respondeu aos embaixadores de Jefté: Porquanto Israel tomou minha terra, quando subiu do Egito, desde Arnom até Jaboque e o Jordão; portanto, devolve-as agora em paz.
And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly.
14 E Jefté voltou a enviar outros embaixadores ao rei dos amonitas,
And Jephthah sent again to the king of the children of Ammon,
15 Para dizer-lhe: Jefté disse assim: Israel não tomou terra de Moabe, nem terra dos filhos de Amom:
And said to him, This is the word of Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the children of Ammon;
16 Mas subindo Israel do Egito, andou pelo deserto até o mar Vermelho, e chegou a Cades.
But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;
17 Então Israel enviou embaixadores ao rei de Edom, dizendo: Eu te rogo que me deixes passar por tua terra. Mas o rei de Edom não os escutou. Enviou também ao rei de Moabe; o qual tampouco quis: ficou, portanto, Israel em Cades.
Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Edom did not give ear to them. And in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he would not; so Israel went on living in Kadesh.
18 Depois, indo pelo deserto, rodeou a terra de Edom e a terra de Moabe, e vindo pelo lado oriental da terra de Moabe, assentou seu acampamento de outra parte de Arnom, e não entraram pelo termo de Moabe: porque Arnom é termo de Moabe.
Then he went on through the waste land and round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon; they did not come inside the limit of Moab, for the Arnon was the limit of Moab.
19 E enviou Israel embaixadores a Seom rei pelos amorreus, rei de Hesbom, dizendo-lhe: Rogo-te que me deixes passar por tua terra até meu lugar.
And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let me now go through your land to my place.
20 Mas Seom não confiou em Israel para dar-lhe passagem por seu termo; antes juntando Seom toda sua gente, pôs acampamento em Jaza, e lutou contra Israel.
But Sihon would not give way and let Israel go through his land; and Sihon got together all his people, and put his army in position in Jahaz, and made war on Israel.
21 Porém o SENHOR, o Deus de Israel, entregou Seom e todo o seu povo na mão de Israel, e os derrotou; e Israel tomou posse de toda a terra dos amorreus que habitavam naquela terra.
And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them; so all the land of the Amorites, the people of that land, became Israel's.
22 Possuíram também todo aquele termo dos amorreus desde Arnom até Jaboque, e desde o deserto até o Jordão.
All the limit of the Amorites was theirs, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and from the waste land even to Jordan.
23 Assim que o SENHOR o Deus de Israel expulsou os amorreus diante de seu povo Israel: e o hás de possuir tu?
So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has taken away their land from the Amorites and given it to his people Israel; are you then to have it?
24 Se Camos teu Deus te expulsasse algum, não o possuirias tu? Assim nós possuiremos a tudo aquilo que o SENHOR expulsou nosso Deus de diante de nós.
Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.
25 És tu agora em algo melhor que Balaque filho de Zipor, rei de Moabe? Teve ele questão contra Israel, ou fez guerra contra eles?
What! are you any better than Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever take up a cause against Israel or make war against them?
26 Quando Israel esteve habitando por trezentos anos a Hesbom e suas aldeias, a Aroer e suas aldeias, e todas as cidades que estão aos termos de Arnom, por que não as reclamaste nesse tempo?
While Israel was living in Heshbon and its daughter-towns and in Aroer and its daughter-towns and in all the towns which are by the side of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not get them back at that time?
27 Assim que, eu nada pequei contra ti, mas tu fazes mal comigo fazendo-me guerra: o SENHOR, que é o juiz, julgue hoje entre os filhos de Israel e os filhos de Amom.
So I have done no wrong against you, but you are doing wrong to me in fighting against me: may the Lord, who is Judge this day, be judge between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
28 Mas o rei dos filhos de Amom não atendeu os argumentos de Jefté que lhe enviou.
The king of the children of Ammon, however, did not give ear to the words which Jephthah sent to him.
29 E o espírito do SENHOR foi sobre Jefté: e passou por Gileade e Manassés; e dali passou a Mispá de Gileade; e de Mispá de Gileade passou aos filhos de Amom.
Then the spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, and he went through Gilead and Manasseh, and came to Mizpeh of Gilead; and from Mizpeh of Gilead he went over to the children of Ammon.
30 E Jefté fez voto ao SENHOR, dizendo: Se entregares aos amonitas em minhas mãos,
And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hands,
31 Qualquer um que me sair a receber das portas de minha casa, quando voltar dos amonitas em paz, será do SENHOR, e lhe oferecerei em holocausto.
Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the children of Ammon, will be the Lord's and I will give him as a burned offering.
32 Passou, pois, Jefté aos filhos de Amom para lutar contra eles; e o SENHOR os entregou em sua mão.
So Jephthah went over to the children of Ammon to make war on them; and the Lord gave them into his hands.
33 E os feriu de grandíssimo dano desde Aroer até chegar a Minite, vinte cidades; e até a Abel-Queramim. Assim foram dominados os amonitas diante dos filhos de Israel.
And he made an attack on them from Aroer all the way to Minnith, overrunning twenty towns, as far as Abel-cheramim, and put great numbers to the sword. So the children of Ammon were crushed before the children of Israel.
34 E voltando Jefté a Mispá à sua casa, eis que sua filha lhe saiu a receber com adufes e danças, e era a única, a única sua; não tinha além dela outro filho nem filha.
Then Jephthah came back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way with music and with dances; she was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.
35 E quando ele a viu, rompeu suas roupas dizendo: Ai, filha minha! De verdade me abateste, e tu és dos que me afligem: porque eu abri minha boca ao SENHOR, e não poderei retratar-me.
And when he saw her he was overcome with grief, and said, Ah! my daughter! I am crushed with sorrow, and it is you who are the chief cause of my trouble; for I have made an oath to the Lord and I may not take it back.
36 Ela então lhe respondeu: Pai meu, se abriste tua boca ao SENHOR, faze de mim como saiu de tua boca, pois que o SENHOR fez vingança em teus inimigos os filhos de Amom.
And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have said; for the Lord has sent a full reward on your haters, on the children of Ammon.
37 E voltou a dizer a seu pai: Faze-me isto: deixa-me por dois meses que vá e desça pelos montes, e chore minha virgindade, eu e minhas companheiras.
Then she said to her father, Only do this for me: let me have two months to go away into the mountains with my friends, weeping for my sad fate.
38 Ele então disse: Vai. E deixou-a por dois meses. E ela foi com suas companheiras, e chorou sua virgindade pelos montes.
And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.
39 Passados os dois meses, voltou a seu pai, e fez dela conforme seu voto que havia feito. E ela nunca conheceu homem.
And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel,
40 De aqui foi o costume em Israel que de ano em ano iam as virgens de Israel a lamentar à filha de Jefté gileadita, quatro dias no ano.
For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year.
