Deuteronômio 9 - Bíblia Online

Ouve, ó Israel; tu estás passando hoje o Jordão, para entrares e possuires nações maiores e mais poderosas do que tu, cidades grandes e muradas até o céu, 
um povo grande e alto, filhos dos anaquins, a quem tu conheces, e de quem tu tens ouvido dizer: Quem poderá resistir aos filhos de Anaque? 
Sabe hoje que Jeová teu Deus é o que passa adiante de ti como um fogo devorador. Ele os destruirá, e os subjugará diante de ti; assim os desapossarás, e depressa os farás perecer, como Jeová te prometeu. 
Depois que Jeová teu Deus os tiver lançado fora de diante de ti, não digas no teu coração: Por causa da minha justiça é que Jeová me introduziu nesta terra para a possuir; porque por causa da maldade destas nações é que Jeová as está desapossando de diante de ti. 
Não é pela tua justiça, nem pela retidão do teu coração que entras a possuir a sua terra; mas pela maldade destas nações é que Jeová teu Deus as está desapossando de diante de ti, e para estabelecer o que Jeová prometeu com juramento a teus pais, a Abraão, a Isaque e a Jacó. 
Sabe que não é pela tua justiça que Jeová teu Deus te está dando esta boa terra para a possuires; porque tu és um povo de cerviz dura. 
Lembra-te, não te esqueças de que modo provocaste a ira de Jeová teu Deus no deserto; desde o dia em que saístes da terra do Egito, até chegardes a este lugar, tendes sido rebeldes contra Jeová. 
Também em Horebe provocastes a ira de Jeová, e Jeová irou-se contra vós ao ponto de vos destruir. 
Quando subi o monte para receber as tábuas da aliança que Jeová fez convosco, fiquei no monte quarenta dias e quarenta noites; não comi pão, nem bebi água. 
Jeová deu-me as tábuas de pedra, escritas com o dedo de Deus; nelas estava escrito segundo todas as palavras que Jeová vos falou no monte do meio do fogo, no dia da assembléia. 
Ao fim de quarenta dias e quarenta noites deu-me Jeová as tábuas de pedra, isto é, as tábuas da aliança. 
Disse-me Jeová: Levanta-te, desce depressa daqui; porque o teu povo, que tiraste do Egito, já se corrompeu; cedo se desviaram do caminho que lhes ordenei; fizeram para si uma imagem fundida. 
Disse-me mais Jeová: Vi a este povo, e eis que é um povo de cerviz dura. 
Deixa-me, para que eu os destrua, e apague o seu nome de debaixo do céu; farei de ti uma nação mais poderosa e maior do que esta. 
Então me virei, e desci o monte, e ardia o monte em fogo; as duas tábuas da aliança estavam em ambas as minhas mãos. 
Olhei, e eis que havíeis pecado contra Jeová vosso Deus; vós vos tínheis feito um bezerro fundido; depressa vos tínheis desviado do caminho que Jeová vos ordenara. 
Peguei nas duas tábuas, arrojei-as das minhas mãos e quebrei-as diante dos vossos olhos. 
Prostrei-me perante Jeová, como dantes, quarenta dias e quarenta noites; não comi pão, nem bebi água, por causa de todo o vosso pecado que cometestes, fazendo o que era mau à vista de Jeová, para o irritardes. 
Eu estava atemorizado pela ira e furor, com os quais se irou Jeová contra vós, ao ponto de vos destruir. Mas ainda essa vez Jeová me ouviu. 
Jeová estava muito irado contra Arão, ao ponto de o destruir; orei por Arão também ao mesmo tempo. 
Então tomei o vosso pecado, o bezerro que tínheis feito, e o queimei no fogo, e o pisei, moendo-o bem, até que se desfez em pó; o seu pó deitei na corrente que descia o monte. 
Irritastes também a Jeová em Taberá, em Massá e em Quibrote- Taavá. 
Quando Jeová vos enviou a Cades-Barnéia, dizendo: Subi e tomai posse da terra que vos dei; rebelastes contra o mandamento de Jeová vosso Deus, e não lhe destes crédito, nem ouvistes a sua voz. 
Tendes sido rebeldes contra Jeová desde o dia em que vos conheci. 
Assim me prostrei diante de Jeová, quarenta dias e quarenta noites estive prostrado, porque Jeová dissera que vos destruiria. 
Orei a Jeová, dizendo: Deus Jeová, não destruas o teu povo e a tua herança que remiste com a tua grandeza, e que tiraste do Egito com mão poderosa. 
Lembra-te dos teus servos, Abraão, Isaque e Jacó; não atentes para a dureza deste povo, nem para a sua maldade, nem para o seu pecado; 
para que não diga o povo da terra de que nos tiraste: Por não poder Jeová introduzi-los na terra que lhes prometeu, e por odiá-los, tirou-os para fazer morrer no deserto. 
Contudo eles são o teu povo e a tua herança, que tiraste com a tua grande força e com o teu braço estendido. 

Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven; 
A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak. 
Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said. 
And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you. 
Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 
Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people. 
Keep well in mind how you made the Lord your God angry in the waste land; from the day when you went out of Egypt till you came to this place, you have gone against the orders of the Lord. 
Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you. 
When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water. 
And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting. 
Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement. 
And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the people you have taken out of Egypt have given themselves over to evil; they have quickly been turned from the way in which I gave them orders to go; they have made themselves a metal image. 
And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked: 
Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they. 
So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands. 
And I saw that you had done evil against the Lord, and had made for yourselves a metal image of a young ox: you had quickly been turned from the way in which the Lord had given you orders to go. 
And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes. 
And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath. 
For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer. 
And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time. 
And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put in the stream flowing down from the mountain. 
Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you made the Lord angry. 
And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice. 
From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord. 
So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you. 
And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand. 
Keep in mind your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not looking at the hard heart of this people, or their evil-doing and their sin: 
Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land. 
But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm. 

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