Gênesis 31

1 Jacob ouviu as palavras dos filhos de Laban, dizendo: “Jacob tirou tudo o que era de nosso pai”. Ele obteve toda essa riqueza com aquilo que era de nosso pai”.

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 Jacob viu a expressão no rosto de Laban, e, eis que não era para ele como antes.

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

3 Yahweh disse a Jacob: “Volte para a terra de seus pais, e para seus parentes, e eu estarei com você”.

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

4 Jacob enviou e chamou Rachel e Leah ao campo para seu rebanho,

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 lhes disse: “Vejo a expressão no rosto de seu pai, que não é para mim como antes; mas o Deus de meu pai tem estado 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 Você sabe que eu servi a seu pai com todas as minhas forças.

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

7 Seu pai me enganou, e mudou meu salário dez vezes, mas Deus não permitiu que ele me magoasse.

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

8 Se Ele disse: 'O salpicado será o seu salário', então todo o rebanho furou salpicado. Se Ele disse, 'O salpicado será seu salário', então todo o rebanho furou.

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 Thus Deus tirou o gado de seu pai e o deu a mim.

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

10 Durante a época de acasalamento, levantei os olhos e vi em um sonho, e eis que os cabritos machos que saltaram sobre o rebanho estavam listrados, salpicados e grisalhos.

“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 O anjo de Deus me disse no sonho, 'Jacob', e eu disse, 'Aqui estou eu'.

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

12 Ele disse: 'Agora levantem seus olhos, e eis que todos os bodes machos que saltaram sobre o rebanho estão estriados, salpicados e pardos, pois eu vi tudo o que Laban faz a vocês.

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 você ungiu um pilar, onde você fez um voto para mim. Agora levanta-te, sai desta terra, e volta à terra do 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 Rachel e Leah responderam-lhe: “Existe ainda alguma parte ou herança para nós na casa de nosso pai?

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

15 Aren não somos considerados por ele como estrangeiros? Pois ele nos vendeu, e também gastou nosso dinheiro.

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 Pois todas as riquezas que Deus tirou de nosso pai são nossas e de nossos filhos. Agora, pois, o que quer que Deus lhe tenha dito, faça”.

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 Jacob se levantou e colocou seus filhos e suas esposas nos camelos,

Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels.

18 e levou todo o seu gado, e todos os seus bens que havia recolhido, incluindo o gado que havia adquirido em Paddan Aram, para ir a Isaac, seu pai, à 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 Agora Laban tinha ido tosquiar suas ovelhas; e Rachel roubou os terafins que eram 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 Jacob enganou Laban, o sírio, na medida em que ele não lhe disse que estava fugindo.

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

21 Então, ele fugiu com tudo o que tinha. Ele se levantou, passou por cima do rio e colocou seu rosto em direção à montanha de Gilead.

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 Laban foi informado no terceiro dia que Jacob havia fugido.

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

23 Ele levou seus parentes com ele, e o perseguiu durante sete dias de viagem. Ele o alcançou na montanha de Gilead.

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

24 Deus veio a Laban, o Sírio, em um sonho da noite, e disse-lhe: “Cuidado para não falar com Jacó nem bem nem mal”.

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 Laban apanhou Jacob. Agora Jacob havia armado sua barraca na montanha, e Laban com seus parentes acampados na montanha de Gilead.

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 Labão disse a Jacó: “O que você fez, que me enganou e levou minhas filhas como se fossem cativas da espada?

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 você fugiu secretamente, e me enganou, e não me disse, que eu poderia tê-lo mandado embora com alegria e com canções, com pandeiro e com 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 e não me permitiu beijar meus filhos e minhas filhas? Agora você fez uma tolice.

(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 Está no poder da minha mão feri-lo, mas o Deus de seu pai falou comigo ontem à noite, dizendo: 'Cuidado para não falar com Jacó nem bem nem mal'.

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 Agora, você quer ir embora, porque ansiava muito pela casa de seu pai, mas por que roubou os meus deuses”?

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

31 Jacob respondeu a Laban: “Porque eu tinha medo, pois disse: 'Não me tire suas filhas à força'”.

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 Qualquer pessoa com quem você encontre seus deuses não viverá. Diante de nossos parentes, descubra o que é seu comigo, e leve-o”. Pois Jacó não sabia que Raquel as havia roubado.

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 Laban entrou na tenda de Jacob, na tenda de Leah, e na tenda das duas servas; mas não as encontrou. Ele saiu da tenda de Leah, e entrou na tenda de Rachel.

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 Now Rachel tomou os terafins, colocou-os na sela do camelo, e sentou-se sobre eles. Laban sentiu ao redor de toda a tenda, mas não os encontrou.

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 Ela disse a seu pai: “Não deixe que meu senhor se zangue por eu não poder me levantar diante de você; pois estou tendo meu período”. Ele procurou, mas não encontrou o teraphim.

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 Jacob estava com raiva e discutiu com Laban. Jacob respondeu a Laban: “Qual é a minha transgressão? Qual é o meu pecado, que você me perseguiu calorosamente?

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

37 Agora que você se sentiu em todas as minhas coisas, o que você encontrou de todas as suas coisas domésticas? Ponha-o aqui diante de meus parentes e de seus parentes, para que eles possam julgar entre nós dois.

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 que estou com você. Suas ovelhas e suas cabras não lançaram seus filhotes e eu não comi os carneiros de seus rebanhos.

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 O que foi rasgado de animais, eu não trouxe para você. Eu carreguei sua perda. Da minha mão você precisou, seja roubado de dia ou roubado à noite.

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 Esta era a minha situação: de dia a seca me consumia, e a geada à noite; e meu sono fugia dos 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 Estes vinte anos em que estive em sua casa. Servi-lhe catorze anos por suas duas filhas, e seis anos por seu rebanho, e você mudou dez vezes meu salário.

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 A menos que o Deus de meu pai, o Deus de Abraão, e o medo de Isaac, tivesse estado comigo, certamente agora você me teria mandado embora vazio. Deus viu minha aflição e o trabalho de minhas mãos, e te repreendeu ontem à 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 Laban respondeu a Jacob: “As filhas são minhas filhas, as crianças são minhas filhas, os rebanhos são meus rebanhos, e tudo o que você vê é meu! O que posso fazer hoje a estas minhas filhas, ou a seus filhos que elas tiveram de suportar?

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 Agora venha, vamos fazer um pacto, você e eu. Que seja para uma testemunha entre mim e você”.

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 Jacob pegou uma pedra, e a montou para um pilar.

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

46 Jacob disse a seus parentes: “Recolham pedras”. Eles pegaram pedras, e fizeram uma pilha. Eles comeram ali junto à pilha.

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 Laban chamou-a de Jegar Sahadutha, mas Jacob a chamou de Galeed.

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 Laban disse: “Esta pilha é testemunha entre mim e você hoje”. Portanto, foi chamado de Galeed

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 Mizpah, pois ele disse: “Yahweh vigia entre mim e você, quando estamos ausentes 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 vocês afligem minhas filhas, ou se vocês levam esposas além de minhas filhas, nenhum homem está conosco; eis que Deus é testemunha entre mim e vocês”.

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 Laban disse a Jacob: “Veja este monte, e veja o pilar, que eu coloquei entre mim e você”.

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 Que este monte seja uma testemunha, e o pilar seja uma testemunha, que eu não passarei este monte para vocês, e que vocês não passarão este monte e este pilar para mim, por 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 Nahor, o Deus de seu pai, julguem entre nós”. Então Jacó jurou pelo medo de seu pai, Isaac.

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 Jacó ofereceu um sacrifício na montanha, e chamou seus parentes para comer pão. Eles comeram pão, e passaram a noite toda na montanha.

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 Early pela manhã, Laban levantou-se, beijou seus filhos e suas filhas, e os abençoou. Laban partiu e voltou para 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.