Deuteronomy 18
1 “The priests, who are all from the tribe of Levi, will not receive any land in Israel. Instead, they will receive some of the food that other people offer to be burned [on the altar to be sacrificed] to Yahweh and some of the other sacrifices that will be offered to Yahweh.
Los sacerdotes y los levitas — toda la tribu de Leví — no tendrán parte ni herencia con Israel. Comerán las ofrendas de Yahvé hechas por fuego y su porción.
2 They will not be allotted any land like the other tribes will be. What they will receive is the work/privilege of being Yahweh’s [priests], which is what he said that they should have.
No tendrán herencia entre sus hermanos. Yahvé es su herencia, como él les ha dicho.
3 “When the people bring an ox or a sheep to be sacrificed, they must give to the priests the shoulder, the cheeks/jaws, and the stomach of those animals.
Esto será lo que les corresponda a los sacerdotes del pueblo, de los que ofrezcan un sacrificio, ya sea de buey o de oveja, que le darán al sacerdote: la espaldilla, las dos mejillas y las partes interiores.
4 You must also give to them the first part of the grain that you [harvest], and the first part of the wine [that you make], and the first part of the [olive] oil [that you make], and the first part of the wool that you shear from your sheep.
Le darás las primicias de tu grano, de tu vino nuevo y de tu aceite, y las primicias del vellón de tus ovejas.
5 You must do this because Yahweh our God has chosen the tribe of Levi from all of your tribes, in order that men [from that tribe] would always be the priests who would serve him.
Porque Yahvé, tu Dios, lo ha escogido de entre todas tus tribus para que esté de pie para servir en el nombre de Yahvé, a él y a sus hijos para siempre.
6 “If any man from the tribe of Levi [who has been living] in one of the towns in Israel wants to come from there to the place of worship that Yahweh has chosen, [and start living there],
Si un levita sale de cualquiera de vuestras puertas de todo Israel donde vive, y viene con todo el deseo de su alma al lugar que Yahvé elija,
7 he is permitted to serve Yahweh there as a priest, just like the other men from the tribe of Levi who have been serving there.
entonces ministrará en nombre de Yahvé su Dios, como lo hacen todos sus hermanos los levitas que están allí ante Yahvé.
8 He must be given the same amount of food [that the other priests receive]. He is permitted to keep the money [that his relatives give him] for selling some of their possessions.
Tendrán porciones similares para comer, además de lo que provenga de la venta de sus bienes familiares.
9 When you enter the land that Yahweh our God is giving you, you must not imitate the disgusting things that the people-groups who are there now do.
Cuando hayas entrado en la tierra que Yahvé vuestro Dios te da, no aprenderás a imitar las abominaciones de esas naciones.
10 You must not sacrifice any of your children by burning them [on your altars]. Do not practice (divination/using supernatural power to reveal [what will happen in] the future). Do not do/practice (soothsaying/magic to find out what will happen in the future). Do not (interpret omens/say that because of something that you have seen you know what will happen). Do not practice sorcery/witchcraft. Do not practice (putting spells on people/saying things to cause bad things to happen to others).
No se hallará entre vosotros a nadie que haga pasar a su hijo o a su hija por el fuego, a nadie que utilice la adivinación, a nadie que adivine la suerte, a ningún encantador, a ningún hechicero,
11 Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
a ningún encantador, a nadie que consulte a un espíritu familiar, a ningún mago, a ningún nigromante.
12 Yahweh hates people who do any of those disgusting things. And as you advance through that land, he is going to expel the people-groups because they do/practice those disgusting things.
Porque cualquiera que haga estas cosas es una abominación para Yahvé. A causa de estas abominaciones, Yahvé, tu Dios, los expulsa de tu presencia.
13 But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
Serás irreprochable ante el Señor, tu Dios.
14 The people-groups that you are about to expel [from the land that you will occupy] (consult/seek advice from) soothsayers and those who practice divination. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.
Porque estas naciones que vas a despojar escuchan a los que practican la hechicería y a los adivinos; pero en cuanto a ti, Yahvé vuestro Dios no te lo ha permitido.
15 [Some day] he will send from among you a prophet like me. [He is the one who will tell you what will happen in the future], and he is the one whom you must heed.
El Señor, tu Dios, te levantará un profeta de entre tus hermanos, como yo. Lo escucharás.
16 On the day that your ancestors were gathered at the bottom of Sinai Mountain, they pleaded with me saying, ‘We do not want Yahweh to speak [MTY] to us again, and we do not want to see this huge fire [that is burning on the mountain]!’ [Your ancestors said that because they were afraid] that they would die [if Yahweh spoke to them again].
Esto es según todo lo que pediste a Yahvé vuestro Dios en Horeb el día de la asamblea, diciendo: “No me dejes oír de nuevo la voz de Yahvé mi Dios, ni me dejes ver más este gran fuego, para que no muera.”
17 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
El Señor me dijo: “Han dicho bien lo que han dicho.
18 So I will send from among them a prophet who will be like you. I will tell him what to say, and then he will tell people everything that I tell him to say.
Yo les suscitaré un profeta de entre sus hermanos, como tú. Pondré mis palabras en su boca, y él les dirá todo lo que yo le mande.
19 He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
Sucederá que el que no escuche mis palabras que hablará en mi nombre, se lo exigiré.
20 But if any other [person says that he is a] prophet [and] dares to speak a message which he falsely says comes from me but which I did not tell him to speak, or if anyone who speaks a message that he says other gods [MTY] have revealed to him, he must be executed [for doing that].’
Pero el profeta que hable una palabra presuntuosa en mi nombre, que yo no le haya mandado hablar, o que hable en nombre de otros dioses, ese mismo profeta morirá.”
21 But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
Pueden decir en su corazón: “¿Cómo sabremos la palabra que Yahvé no ha hablado?”
22 [The answer is that] when someone speaks a message [about what will happen in the future], a message that he says was revealed by Yahweh, if what he says does not happen, [you will know that] the message did not come from Yahweh. That person has wrongly claimed that it was revealed to him by Yahweh. So you do not need to be afraid of [anything that] he [says].”
Cuando un profeta habla en nombre de Yahvé, si la cosa no se cumple ni sucede, eso es lo que Yahvé no ha hablado. El profeta lo ha hablado presuntuosamente. No debes tener miedo de él.
