Exodus 32
1 [(Moses/I) stayed on top of the mountain a long time]. When the people realized that he/I was not returning quickly, they gathered near Aaron and said to him, “We do not know what has happened to that man Moses who brought us here out of Egypt. So quickly, make us ([an idol/a statue of a god]) who will lead us!”
Cuando el pueblo vio que Moisés tardaba en bajar del monte, se reunió alrededor de Aarón y le dijeron: “Anda, haznos un dios que vaya delante de nosotros, ya que no sabemos que ha sido de ese Moisés, ese hombre que nos ha sacado de la tierra de Egipto.”
2 Aaron replied to them, “All right, [I will do that, but] tell your wives and your sons and your daughters to take off all their gold earrings and bring them to me.”
Les respondió Aarón: “Quitad los pendientes de oro de las orejas de vuestras mujeres y de vuestros hijos y de vuestras hijas, y traédmelos.”
3 So the people did that. They took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
Y todos se quitaron los pendientes de oro que llevaban en las orejas, y los entregaron a Aarón.
4 He took all those gold earrings and melted them in a fire. He [poured the gold into a mold and] made a statue that looked like a young bull. The people saw it and said, “This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt!”
Y él, tomándolos de sus manos le dio forma con el buril e hizo así un becerro de fundición. Entonces ellos dijeron: “Este es tu Dios, oh Israel, el que te ha sacado de la tierra de Egipto.”
5 When Aaron saw [what was happening], he built an altar in front of the [statue of the] young bull. Then he announced, “Tomorrow we will have a festival to honor Yahweh!”
Viendo esto Aarón, erigió un altar ante el becerro e hizo esta proclamación: “Mañana habrá fiesta en honor de Yahvé.”
6 So the people got up early the next morning and brought animals to kill and burn as sacrifices on the altar. They also brought sacrifices to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. Then they sat down to eat and drink [wine]. Then they got up and started dancing in a very immoral way.
Y levantándose al día siguiente muy temprano, ofrecieron holocaustos y presentaron sacrificios pacíficos. Luego se sentó el pueblo a comer y beber, y después se levantaron a divertirse.
7 Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Go back down from the mountain, because your people, the ones that you brought up here from Egypt, have [already] (become very depraved/wicked)!
Entonces habló Yahvé a Moisés, y dijo: “¡Ve, baja! porque ha pecado tu pueblo que sacaste de la tierra de Egipto.
8 They have already (left the road that I showed them/stopped obeying me)! They have made [a statue of] a young bull from melted gold. They have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. And they are saying, ‘This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from Egypt!’”
Muy pronto se han apartado del camino que Yo les había prescrito. Se han hecho un becerro de fundición y se han postrado ante él; le han ofrecido sacrificios y han dicho: “Este es tu Dios, oh Israel, el que te ha sacado de la tierra de Egipto.”
9 Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “I have seen that these people are very stubborn.
Y dijo Yahvé a Moisés: “Veo que este pueblo es un pueblo de dura cerviz.
10 I am very angry with them, and so I am going to get rid of them. Do not try to stop me! Then I will cause you and your descendants to become a great nation.”
Déjame ahora para que se encienda mi ira contra ellos y los consuma; de ti, en cambio, haré un gran pueblo.”
11 But Moses/I pleaded with his/my God, Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, (you should not be very angry with your people!/why are you so angry with your people [RHQ]?) These are the people whom you rescued from Egypt with very great power [MTY, DOU]!
Pero Moisés imploró a Yahvé, su Dios, diciendo: “¿Por qué, oh Yahvé, ha de encenderse tu ira contra tu pueblo, que Tú sacaste de la tierra de Egipto con gran poder y mano fuerte?
12 Do not [do anything that would] allow the people of Egypt to say, ‘Their god led them out from our country, but [he did that] only [because he wanted] to kill them in the mountains and get rid of them completely [RHQ]!’ Stop being so angry! (Change your mind/Do not do what you have told me that you will do)! Do not do to your people this terrible thing [that you have just said that you will do]
¿Por qué han de decir los egipcios: Para hacerles mal los ha sacado a fin de matarlos en las montañas, y extirparlos de sobre la faz de la tierra? Deja el ardor de tu ira y arrepiéntete del mal contra tu pueblo.
13 Think about your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You solemnly promised them, ‘I will enable you to have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky.’ You said to them, ‘I will give to your descendants all the land that I am promising to give them. It will be their land forever.’”
Acuérdate de Abrahán, de Isaac y de Israel, siervos tuyos, a los cuales por Ti mismo juraste, diciéndoles: Multiplicaré vuestra descendencia como las estrellas del cielo; y toda esta tierra que os tengo prometida, la daré a vuestros descendientes, y ellos la poseerán para siempre.”
14 So Yahweh changed his mind. He did not do to his people the terrible thing that he said he would do.
Y se arrepintió Yahvé del mal con que había amenazado a su pueblo.
15 Moses/I turned away from God and went down the mountain, carrying in his hands the two stone slabs on which Yahweh had engraved his commandments. He had written on both sides of the slabs.
Se volvió Moisés y bajó del monte, con las dos tablas del Testimonio en su mano; tablas escritas por ambos lados; por una y otra cara estaban escritas.
16 God [himself] had made the slabs, and he was the one who had engraved the commandments on them.
Las tablas eran obra de Dios, y la escritura era escritura de Dios, grabada sobre las tablas.
17 Joshua heard the very loud noise of the people shouting. So when he and I got near the camp, Joshua said, “There is a noise in the camp that sounds like [the noise of] a battle!”
Cuando Josué oyó la voz del pueblo que gritaba, dijo a Moisés: “Gritos de guerra hay en el campamento.”
18 But Moses/I replied, [“No], that is not the shouting that people do when they have won a victory or when they have been defeated [in a battle] What I hear is the sound of [loud] singing!”
Respondió él: “No son gritos de victoria, ni alaridos de derrota. Voz de canto es lo que oigo.”
19 As soon as Moses/I came close to the camp and saw the statue of the young bull and saw the people dancing, he/I became extremely angry. He/I threw the stone tablets that he/I was carrying down onto the ground, there at the base of the mountain.
Mas cuando Moisés estuvo cerca del campamento y vio el becerro y las danzas, se encendió su ira de tal manera que arrojó de su mano las tablas y las hizo pedazos al pie del monte.
20 Then he/I took the statue of the young bull that they had made and melted it in the fire. [When it cooled], he/I ground it into [fine] powder. Then he/I mixed the powder with water and forced the Israeli people to drink it.
Luego tomó el becerro que habían hecho, lo quemó y lo molió hasta reducirlo a polvo, el cual esparció en el agua y se lo dio de beber a los hijos de Israel.
21 Then he/I said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, with the result that you have made them commit such a terrible sin?”
Y dijo Moisés a Aarón: “¿Qué te hizo este pueblo para que le hayas acarreado pecado tan grave?”
22 Aaron replied, “Please do not be angry with me, sir. You know that these people are very determined to do evil things.
Aarón respondió: “No se encienda la ira de mi señor. Tú mismo sabes que este pueblo es propenso al mal.
23 They said to me, ‘As for that man Moses, the one who brought us up here from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him. So make for us an idol that will lead us!’
Me dijeron: ‘Haznos un dios que vaya delante de nosotros; ya que no sabemos qué ha sucedido a ese Moisés, ese hombre que nos ha sacado de la tierra de Egipto.’
24 So I said to them, ‘Everyone who is wearing [gold earrings] should take them off.’ So they [took them off and] gave them to me. I threw them into the fire, and out came this statue of a young bull!”
Yo les contesté: ‘Quien tenga oro, quíteselo.’ Me lo dieron y yo lo eché al fuego y salió este becerro.”
25 Moses/I saw that Aaron had allowed the people to become completely out of control and to do things that would make their enemies think the Israeli people were foolish.
Entonces Moisés viendo al pueblo desenfrenado —pues Aarón les había dado rienda suelta, para que se alegrasen sus enemigos—,
26 So he/I stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, “Everyone who is loyal to Yahweh should come [closer] to me!” So the descendants of Levi gathered around him/me.
se puso a la puerta del campamento, y exclamo: “¡A mí los de Yahvé!” Y se reunieron con él todos los hijos de Leví.
27 Then he/I said to them, “Yahweh, the God of us Israeli people, commands that every one of you should fasten your sword to your side, and then go through the camp from this entrance to the other one, and kill some of your relatives and your companions and your neighbors.”
Y les dijo: “Así dice Yahvé, el Dios de Israel: Cíñase cada uno su espada sobre su muslo, y pasad y repasad por el campamento de puerta en puerta, y matad, cada uno a su hermano, a su amigo y a su pariente.”
28 The descendants of Levi did what Moses/I told them to do, and they killed 3,000 men on that day.
Hicieron los hijos de Leví según la orden de Moisés; y perecieron en aquel día unos tres mil hombres del pueblo.
29 Moses/I said to the descendants of Levi, “Today you have dedicated yourselves to serving Yahweh by (killing/not sparing) [even] your own sons and brothers, and as a result Yahweh will bless you.”
Y dijo Moisés: “Hoy os habéis consagrado a Yahvé, cada uno contra su hijo y su hermano; para que hoy recibáis bendición.”
30 The next day, Moses/I said to the people, “You have committed a terrible sin. But I will now climb up the mountain again to talk with Yahweh. Perhaps I can [persuade him] to forgive you for sinning [like this].”
Al día siguiente dijo Moisés al pueblo: “Habéis cometido un gran pecado. Subiré ahora a Yahvé; quizás podré obtener la remisión de vuestro pecado.”
31 So Moses/I went back up the mountain and said to Yahweh, “I am sorry to admit that these people have committed a terrible sin. They have made for themselves a gold idol and have worshiped it.
Y se volvió Moisés a Yahvé y dijo: “¡Ay! este pueblo ha cometido un pecado grande, fabricándose un dios de oro.
32 But now I ask you to please forgive them for having sinned. If you will not forgive them, then erase my name from the book in which you have written [the names of your people].”
Pero ahora, perdona su pecado; y si no, bórrame de tu libro que has escrito.”
33 But Yahweh said to Moses/me, “It is [only] those who have sinned against me whose names I will erase from that book.
Yahvé respondió a Moisés: “Al que haya pecado contra Mí, a este le borraré de mi libro.
34 Now you go back down and lead the [Israeli] people to the place that I told you about. Keep in mind that my angel will go in front of you. But, at the time that I determine, I will punish them for their sin.”
Por ahora ve y conduce al pueblo adonde te he dicho. He aquí que mi Ángel irá delante de ti, mas en el día de mi visitación los castigaré por su pecado.”
35 [Later] Yahweh caused a plague to strike the people because they had told Aaron to make the gold [statue of a] young bull.
Así hirió Yahvé al pueblo por haber hecho el becerro por manos de Aarón.
