Numbers 19
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
Yahvé habló a Moisés y a Aarón, diciendo:
2 “This is the ritual that the Lord has appointed for a victim. Instruct the sons of Israel, so that they may bring to you a red cow of full maturity, in which there is no blemish, and which has not carried 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 And you shall deliver it to Eleazar the priest, who, having led it out beyond the camp, shall immolate it in the sight of all.
Se la daréis al sacerdote Eleazar, y él la llevará fuera del campamento, y la matará delante de él.
4 And dipping his finger in its blood, he shall sprinkle it seven times, opposite the door of the tabernacle.
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 And he shall burn it, while all are watching, delivering into the flame, not only its skin and flesh, but also the blood and dung.
El sacerdote quemará la novilla delante de él; quemará su piel, su carne y su sangre, con su estiércol.
6 Likewise, cedar wood, and hyssop, and twice-dyed scarlet he shall cast into the flame, by which the cow is consumed.
El sacerdote tomará madera de cedro, hisopo y escarlata, y lo echará en medio del incendio de la novilla.
7 And then finally, having washed his garments and his body, he shall enter into the camp, and he shall be deeply stained 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 Then he also who had burned it shall wash his garments and his body, and he shall be 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 clean man shall gather the ashes of the cow, and he shall pour them out beyond the camp, in a very pure place, so that they may be preserved for the multitude of the sons of Israel, and for the water of aspersion, because the cow was burned for 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 And when he who had carried the ashes of the cow will have washed his garments, he shall be unclean until evening. The sons of Israel, and the newcomers who live among them, shall have this as a holy and perpetual right.
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 the corpse of a man, and is, because of this, unclean for seven days,
“El que toque el cadáver de un hombre será impuro durante siete días.
12 shall be sprinkled from this water on the third and seventh days, and so shall he be cleansed. But if he was not sprinkled on the third day, he is not able to be cleansed on the seventh.
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 will have touched the dead body of a human life, and who has not been sprinkled with this mixture, pollutes the tabernacle of the Lord, and he shall perish out of Israel. For not having been sprinkled with the water of expiation, he shall be unclean, and his filth shall remain upon 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 of a man who dies in a tent. All who enter into his tent, and all the vessels which are there, shall be polluted 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 The vessel that has no cover or binding over it shall be unclean.
Toda vasija abierta, que no tenga cubierta atada, es inmunda.
16 If anyone in the field will have touched the corpse of a man, who was killed or who died on his own, or his bone, or his grave, he shall 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 And they shall take some of the ashes from the burning and the sin offering, and they shall pour living waters over them into a vessel.
“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 And into it a man who is clean shall dip hyssop, and he shall sprinkle from it the entire tent, and all its articles, and the men who were polluted by means of contact.
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 And so, in this manner, what is clean shall purify what is unclean, on the third and seventh days. And having been expiated on the seventh day, he shall wash both himself and his garments, and he shall be unclean until evening.
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 If anyone has not been expiated by this ritual, his soul shall perish from the midst of the Church. For he has polluted the Sanctuary of the Lord, and he has not been sprinkled with purifying waters.
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 precept shall be an everlasting ordinance. Likewise, the one who has sprinkled the waters shall wash his garments. All who will have touched the waters of expiation shall 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 Whatever has been touched by something unclean will itself be made unclean. And the soul who touches any of these things shall become unclean until evening.”
“Todo lo que toque el impuro será impuro, y el alma que lo toque será impura hasta la noche”.
