Numbers 19
1 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Yahvé habló a Moisés y a Aarón, diciendo:
2 “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
“Este es el estatuto de la ley que Yahvé ha ordenado. Di a los hijos de Israel que te traigan una novilla roja sin mancha, en la que no haya ningún defecto, y que nunca haya sido unida.
3 Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
Se la daréis al sacerdote Eleazar, y él la llevará fuera del campamento, y la matará delante de él.
4 Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tent of Meeting.
El sacerdote Eleazar tomará un poco de su sangre con su dedo, y rociará su sangre hacia el frente de la Tienda de Reunión siete veces.
5 Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.
El sacerdote quemará la novilla delante de él; quemará su piel, su carne y su sangre, con su estiércol.
6 The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
El sacerdote tomará madera de cedro, hisopo y escarlata, y lo echará en medio del incendio de la novilla.
7 Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
Luego el sacerdote lavará sus vestidos y bañará su carne con agua, y después entrará en el campamento, y el sacerdote quedará impuro hasta la noche.
8 The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
El que la queme lavará sus ropas con agua y bañará su carne con agua, y quedará impuro hasta la noche.
9 Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; this is for purification from sin.
“El hombre limpio recogerá las cenizas de la vaquilla y las depositará fuera del campamento, en un lugar limpio, y las guardará para la congregación de los hijos de Israel para usarlas en el agua para limpiar la impureza. Es una ofrenda por el pecado.
10 The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.
El que recoja las cenizas de la vaquilla se lavará la ropa y quedará impuro hasta la noche. Será para los hijos de Israel, y para el extranjero que viva como forastero entre ellos, como un estatuto para siempre.
11 Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
“El que toque el cadáver de un hombre será impuro durante siete días.
12 He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.
Al tercer día se purificará con agua, y al séptimo día quedará limpio; pero si no se purifica al tercer día, al séptimo no quedará limpio.
13 Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.
El que toque a un muerto, el cuerpo de un hombre que ha muerto, y no se purifique, contamina el tabernáculo de Yahvé; y esa alma será cortada de Israel; porque el agua para la impureza no fue rociada sobre él, será impuro. Su impureza aún está sobre él.
14 This is the law when a person dies in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in the tent will be unclean for seven days,
“Esta es la ley cuando un hombre muere en una tienda: todo el que entre en la tienda, y todo el que esté en ella, será impuro durante siete días.
15 and any open container without a lid fastened on it is unclean.
Toda vasija abierta, que no tenga cubierta atada, es inmunda.
16 Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
“Cualquiera que en el campo abierto toque a un muerto con espada, o un cadáver, o un hueso de hombre, o una tumba, quedará impuro siete días.
17 For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
“En cuanto a los impuros, tomarán de la ceniza de la quema de la ofrenda por el pecado, y se derramará sobre ellos agua corriente en una vasija.
18 Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain.
La persona limpia tomará hisopo, lo mojará en el agua y lo rociará sobre la tienda, sobre todos los utensilios, sobre las personas que estaban allí y sobre el que haya tocado el hueso, o el muerto, o la tumba.
19 The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean.
El limpio rociará sobre el impuro al tercer día y al séptimo. Al séptimo día lo purificará. Lavará su ropa y se bañará con agua, y quedará limpio al anochecer.
20 But if a person who is unclean does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
Pero el hombre que sea impuro y no se purifique, esa persona será cortada de entre la asamblea, porque ha profanado el santuario de Yahvé. El agua para la impureza no ha sido rociada sobre él. Es impuro.
21 This is a permanent statute for the people: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.
Será un estatuto perpetuo para ellos. El que rocíe el agua de la impureza lavará sus ropas, y el que toque el agua de la impureza quedará impuro hasta la noche.
22 Anything the unclean person touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be unclean until evening.”
“Todo lo que toque el impuro será impuro, y el alma que lo toque será impura hasta la noche”.
