Deuteronomy 12
1 “(I will now tell you again/These, [again], are) the rules and regulations that you must faithfully obey in the land that Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors [worshiped], is giving to you to occupy. You must obey these laws all the time that you are alive.
Estos son los mandamientos y preceptos que habéis de guardar y practicar en el país que Yahvé, el Dios de vuestros padres, os ha dado para que la poseáis todos los días que viviereis sobre la tierra:
2 You must destroy all the places where the people-groups that you will expel worship their gods, on the tops of mountains and hills and under big green trees.
Destruid por completo los lugares en que los pueblos que habéis de desposeer han servido a sus dioses, sobre los altos montes, sobre los collados y bajo todo árbol frondoso.
3 You must tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars. Completely burn the statues of their goddess Asherah in fires, and chop down their wooden idols, in order that no one will ever worship them [MTY] in those places again.
Derrumbad sus altares, quebrad sus piedras de culto, quemad sus ascheras, haced pedazos las estatuas de sus dioses y borrad de aquellos lugares hasta los nombres.
4 “Do not worship Yahweh like [the people in Canaan worship their gods].
No haréis así con Yahvé, vuestro Dios,
5 Instead, you must go to the place that Yahweh will choose. It will be in the area where one of your tribes will live. That is where you must go to worship Yahweh.
sino que frecuentaréis el lugar que Yahvé, vuestro Dios, escogiere de entre todas vuestras tribus para poner allí su nombre y su morada. Allí irás;
6 That is the place where you must bring your sacrifices that will be completely burned on the altar, and your other sacrifices, (your tithes/ten percent of all of your crops), other offerings that you decide to give, and the firstborn animals from your cattle and sheep.
y allí presentaréis vuestros holocaustos y vuestros sacrificios, vuestros diezmos y las ofrendas alzadas de vuestras manos, vuestros votos y vuestras ofrendas voluntarias, y los primerizos de vuestro ganado mayor y menor.
7 There, in the presence of Yahweh our God, who has [greatly] blessed you, you and your families will eat the good things that you have worked to produce, and you will be happy.
Allí comeréis ante Yahvé vuestro Dios, y os regocijaréis, vosotros y vuestras familias, por todas las obras de vuestra mano, en que Yahvé, vuestro Dios, os bendiga.
8 “[When you are in that land], you must not do some of the things that we have been doing. Until now, you have all been worshiping [Yahweh] the way you wanted to,
No haréis cada cual lo que bien le parezca, como aquí hacemos ahora;
9 because you have not yet arrived in the land which Yahweh is giving to you, where you will be able to live peacefully.
pues hasta ahora no habéis llegado al descanso y a la heredad que Yahvé, tu Dios, te da.
10 But when you cross the Jordan [River], you will start to live in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you. He will protect you from all your enemies that will surround you, and you will live peacefully/safely.
Mas pasaréis el Jordán y habitaréis en el país que Yahvé, vuestro Dios, os dará en suerte; y cuando Él os dé descanso de todos vuestros enemigos que os rodean y habitéis en seguridad,
11 “Yahweh will choose one place where he wants you to worship him. That is the place to which you must bring all the offerings that I command you to bring: The sacrifices that must be completely burned [on the altar], your other sacrifices, other offerings that you yourselves decide to give, (your tithes/ten percent of all your crops), and all the special offerings that you will solemnly promise to give to Yahweh.
entonces en el lugar que Yahvé, vuestro Dios, elija para morada de su Nombre, allí presentaréis todo lo que yo os mando, vuestros holocaustos y vuestros sacrificios, vuestros diezmos y las ofrendas alzadas de vuestras manos y todo lo más selecto que con voto hubiereis prometido a Yahvé.
12 Rejoice there in the presence of Yahweh, along with your children, your male and female servants, and the descendants of Levi who live in your towns. Do not forget that the descendants of Levi will not have their own land, like you will have.
Y os regocijaréis ante Yahvé, vuestro Dios, vosotros, vuestros hijos y vuestras hijas, y vuestros siervos y vuestras siervas, y el levita que mora dentro de vuestras puertas, puesto que no tiene parte ni posesión entre vosotros.
13 Be sure that you do not offer sacrifices anywhere you want to.
Guárdate de ofrecer tus holocaustos en cualquier lugar se te antoje,
14 You must offer them only in the place that Yahweh will choose for you, in an area that belongs to one of your tribes. That is the only place where he wants you to offer sacrifices that will be completely burned [on the altar], and to do the other things that I am commanding you to do [when you worship him].
sino que ofrecerás tus holocaustos en el lugar que eligiere Yahvé en una de tus tribus, y allí harás todo lo que yo te ordeno.
15 “However, you will be permitted to kill and eat the meat of your animals in the places where you live. As often as you want to, you may eat the meat of the animals that Yahweh our God will bless you by giving them to you. Those who have done things that cause them to become unacceptable to God and those who have not done things like that may all eat that meat, just like you would eat the meat of a deer or an antelope.
Sin embargo, cuando quieras, podrás matar y comer carne en todas tus ciudades, según la bendición que Yahvé, tu Dios, te haya concedido. El impuro y el puro podrá comerla, del mismo modo que se come de la gacela y del ciervo.
16 But you must not eat the blood [of any animals]; you must let the blood drain onto the ground [before you cook the meat].
Pero no comáis sangre, la cual derramarás como agua sobre la tierra.
17 In the places where you live, you must not eat the things that you are offering [to Yahweh]: You must not eat the (tithes/ten percent) of your grain or of your wine, or of your [olive] oil, or the firstborn of your cattle and sheep, or the offerings that you yourselves decide to give to Yahweh, or any other offerings.
No podrás comer dentro de tus puertas el diezmo de tu trigo, de tu vino y de tu aceite, ni los primerizos de tu ganado mayor y menor, ni ninguna, de las ofrendas que hayas prometido con voto, ni tus oblaciones voluntarias, ni las ofrendas alzadas por tu mano;
18 Instead, you and your children and your male and female servants and the descendants of Levi who live in your towns must go to the place that he has chosen and eat those things there in the presence of Yahweh. And you should rejoice in the presence of Yahweh about everything that you do.
sino que ante Yahvé, tu Dios, en el lugar escogido por Yahvé, tu Dios, los comerás, tú, tu hijo y tu hija, tu siervo y tu sierva, y el levita que mora dentro de tus puertas; y te regocijarás ante Yahvé, tu Dios, por todas las obras de tu mano.
19 Be sure that you take care of the descendants of Levi all during the time that you live in your land.
Guárdate de desamparar al levita en todo el tiempo que vivas sobre tu tierra.
20 “When Yahweh our God gives you much more land [than you will have when you first occupy it], which is what he has promised to do, and you say ‘I would like some meat to eat’ because you are craving/wanting some meat, you will be permitted to eat meat whenever you want to.
Cuando Yahvé, tu Dios, haya ensanchado tu territorio, según te tiene prometido, y tú digas: Quiero comer carne, porque tu alma tiene gana de comer carne, podrás comer carne según los deseos de tu alma.
21 If the place that Yahweh our God chooses to be the place for you to worship him is far [from where you live], you are permitted to kill some of your cattle or sheep that Yahweh has given to you, and you may eat that meat at the places where you live, just like I have told you to do.
Si el lugar que escogiere Yahvé, tu Dios, para poner allí su nombre, está lejos de ti, podrás matar reses de tu ganado mayor y menor que te dé Yahvé, tu Dios, según lo que te tengo mandado, y podrás comerlas dentro de tus puertas siempre que lo desee tu alma.
22 Those who have done things that cause them to become unacceptable to God, and those who have not done things like that, are all permitted to all eat that meat, just like you would eat the meat of a deer or an antelope.
Comerás de ellas del mismo modo que se come la gacela y el ciervo. El impuro y el puro igualmente podrán comerlas.
23 But be sure that you do not eat the blood [of any animal], because it is the blood that sustains life in living beings, and so you must not eat the life along with the meat.
Pero guárdate de comer la sangre, porque la sangre es la vida; no comerás la vida con la carne.
24 Do not eat the blood; instead, let it drain onto the ground.
No la comerás, sino que la verterás como agua sobre la tierra.
25 If you obey this command and do what Yahweh says is right [for you to do], things will go well for you and for your descendants.
No la comerás, para que te vaya bien a ti y a tus hijos después de ti, haciendo lo que es recto a los ojos de Yahvé.
26 “But the sacred offerings that Yahweh has told you to give and the other offerings that you yourselves decide to give, you must take to the place that Yahweh will choose.
Pero las ofrendas sagradas que tienes que ofrecer, y las que hayas prometido con voto, las tomarás e irás al lugar escogido por Yahvé,
27 You must offer there the sacrifices that will be completely burned [on Yahweh’s altar]. You must also offer there the sacrifices from which you may eat some of meat after you [kill the animals and] drain out the blood and some of it is thrown on the [sides of the] altar.
y ofrecerás tus holocaustos, la sangre y la carne, sobre el altar de Yahvé, tu Dios. La sangre de tus sacrificios será derramada sobre el altar de Yahvé, tu Dios; pero la carne es para tu comida.
28 Faithfully obey all these things that I have commanded you. If you do that, things will go well forever for you and your descendants, because you will be doing what Yahweh our God says is right [for you to do] and what pleases him.
Guarda y obedece todo esto que te ordeno, a fin de que te vaya bien a ti y a tus hijos después de ti para siempre, haciendo lo que es bueno y recto a los ojos de Yahvé, tu Dios.
29 “When you enter the land that you will occupy, as you advance, Yahweh our God will get rid of the people-groups that live there.
Cuando Yahvé, tu Dios, haya exterminado a los pueblos contra los cuales marchas para arrojarlos de delante de ti, y cuando los hayas arrojado y habites en su tierra,
30 After he does that, be sure that you do not [worship the gods] that they have been worshiping, because if you do that, you will be caught in the same trap [that they were caught in] [MET]. Do not ask anyone about those gods, saying, ‘Tell me how they worshiped their gods, in order that I can [worship them] also.’
guárdate de sus seducciones; no los imites después de haberlos destruido delante de ti. Ni hagas indagaciones respecto de sus dioses, diciendo: ‘¿Cómo servían estos pueblos a sus dioses? Así lo haré también yo.’
31 Do not try to worship Yahweh our God like they have worshiped their gods, because when they worship them, they do disgusting things, things that Yahweh hates. [The worst thing that they do is] that they sacrifice their own children and burn them [on their altars].
No hagas tal con Yahvé, tu Dios; porque ellos hacen en honor de sus dioses toda suerte de abominaciones que Yahvé aborrece, pues hasta queman en el fuego a sus hijos y sus hijas para honrar a sus dioses.
32 “Be sure to do everything that I have commanded you to do. Do not add anything to these commands, and do not take anything away from them.”
Cuida de practicar cuanto te mando, sin añadir ni quitar nada.
