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 levitas sacerdotes, toda la tribu de Leví, no tendrán parte ni heredad con Israel. Se mantendrán de las ofrendas quemadas a Yavé y comerán de la heredad de Él.
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. Yavé es su herencia, como se lo prometió.
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.
Así que éste será el derecho de los sacerdotes de parte del pueblo, de parte de los que ofrecen como sacrificio becerro o cordero: Se dará al sacerdote la pierna derecha, las quijadas y el cuajar.
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.
Les darás las primicias de tu grano, tu vino, tu aceite y del primer esquileo 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 Yavé tu ʼElohim lo eligió a él y a sus hijos de entre todas tus tribus para que ministren en el Nombre de Yavé 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],
Cuando un levita salga de alguna de tus ciudades, de cualquier parte en Israel donde resida, y llegue con todo el deseo de su alma al lugar que Yavé escoja,
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.
él ministrará en el Nombre de Yavé su ʼElohim como todos sus hermanos levitas que están allí delante de Yavé.
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.
Comerá porciones iguales, aparte de [lo que reciba por ]la venta de sus bienes patrimoniales.
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 entres en la tierra que Yavé tu ʼElohim te da, no aprenderás a hacer las cosas repugnantes de aquellas 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).
Nadie sea hallado en ti que haga pasar a su hijo o a su hija por el fuego, ni quien practique adivinación, brujería, sortílego, hechicero,
11 Do not try to talk with spirits of dead people. Do not do/practice magic.
encantador, médium ni quien evoque a los muertos.
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 hace estas cosas es repugnancia a Yavé, y por causa de esas repugnancias Yavé tu ʼElohim los echará de delante de ti.
13 But you must always avoid doing any of those things.
Serás perfecto delante de Yavé tu ʼElohim.
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 desposeerás escuchan a brujos y a adivinos, pero Yavé tu ʼElohim no te permite esto.
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.
Yavé tu ʼElohim te levantará un profeta como yo de en medio de ti, de entre tus hermanos. A él escucharán,
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].
conforme a todo lo que pediste a Yavé tu ʼElohim en Horeb el día de la asamblea y dijiste: No vuelva yo a escuchar la voz de Yavé mi ʼElohim, ni vuelva a mirar este gran fuego para que no muera.
17 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘What they have said is true/wise.
Entonces Yavé me dijo: Está bien todo lo que dijeron.
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.
Profeta les levantaré de entre sus hermanos, como tú, y pondré mis Palabras en su boca, y él les hablará todo lo que Yo le ordene.
19 He will speak for me. And I will punish anyone who does not heed what he says.
Pero a cualquiera que no escuche mis Palabras que él hablará en mi Nombre, Yo mismo le pediré cuentas.
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].’
Sin embargo, el profeta que tenga la presunción de hablar en mi Nombre palabra que Yo no le mandé hablar, o que hable en el nombre de otros ʼelohim, morirá.
21 But if you say to yourself, ‘How can we know if a message [that someone tells us] does not come from Yahweh?’
Si preguntas en tu corazón: ¿Cómo conoceremos la palabra que Yavé no habló?
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 el profeta hable en Nombre de Yavé, y lo que dijo no suceda ni se cumpla, es palabra que no habló Yavé. Con presunción la habló aquel profeta. No le temas.
