Nehemiah 13
1 On that day, when someone read to the people parts of the laws [that God gave] to Moses, they read where it was written that no one from the Ammon people-group or the Moab people-group was ever to be allowed to be with God’s people while they were gathered together [to worship].
Aquel día se leyó en el rollo de Moisés a oídos del pueblo. Se encontró escrito en él que los amonitas y moabitas no debían entrar jamás en la congregación de ʼElohim,
2 The reason for that was that the people of Ammon and the people of Moab did not give/sell any food or water to the Israelis [while the Israelis were going through their areas after they left Egypt]. Instead, the people of Ammon and Moab paid money to Balaam in order that he would curse the Israelis. But God commanded Balaam to bless the people, not to curse them.
porque no salieron a recibir a los hijos de Israel con pan y agua, sino alquilaron a Balaam contra ellos para que los maldijera. Pero nuestro ʼElohim convirtió la maldición en bendición.
3 So when the people heard these laws [being read to them], they sent away all the people whose ancestors had come from other countries.
Por tanto, al escuchar la Ley, excluyeron de Israel a todo extranjero.
4 Previously, Eliashib the priest had been appointed to be in charge of the storerooms in the temple. He was a relative of [our enemy] Tobiah.
Antes de esto, el sacerdote Eliasib, encargado de la cámara del Templo de nuestro ʼElohim, quien emparentó con Tobías,
5 He allowed Tobiah to use a large room in which they had previously stored the grain offerings and the incense, the equipment that is used in the temple, the offerings [that the people had brought] for the priests, and the tithes of grain and wine and [olive] oil that [God] had commanded the people to bring to the [other] descendants of Levi, and to the temple musicians, and to the temple guards.
le preparó una gran cámara donde anteriormente se depositaban las ofrendas vegetales, el incienso, los vasos, los diezmos del grano, vino nuevo y aceite asignado a los levitas, cantores y porteros, y la ofrenda para los sacerdotes.
6 While [Tobias was using that room], I was not in Jerusalem, because in the 32nd year that Artaxerxes was the king of Babylonia, I went back there to report to him. After a while I requested the king to allow me to return to Jerusalem, [and he allowed me to go].
Pero durante todo esto yo no estaba en Jerusalén. El año 32 de Artajerjes, rey de Babilonia, fui ante el rey. Después de un tiempo pedí permiso al rey
7 When I arrived in Jerusalem, I found out that Eliashib had done an evil thing by allowing Tobiah to use a room in God’s temple.
y regresé a Jerusalén. Me percaté del mal que Eliasib hizo a favor de Tobías, al prepararle una cámara en los patios del Templo de ʼElohim.
8 I became very angry, and I threw out of that room everything that belonged to Tobiah.
Por eso me airé muchísimo. Eché todas las pertenencias de Tobías fuera de la cámara.
9 Then I commanded [that they perform a ritual] to make the rooms (pure/acceptable to God) again. And I also ordered that all the equipment used in the temple and all the grain offerings and incense should be put in that room again.
Ordené que limpiaran las cámaras y dispuse que restituyeran allí los utensilios sagrados del Templo de ʼElohim, con las ofrendas vegetales y el incienso.
10 I also found out that the temple musicians and [other] descendants of Levi had left Jerusalem and returned to their fields/farms, because the Israeli people had not been bringing to them the food [that they needed].
También supe que a los levitas no les fueron dadas sus porciones, de manera que los levitas y los cantores, en vez de cumplir sus tareas, cada uno se fue a su campo.
11 So I rebuked the officials, saying to them, “(Why have you not taken care of the work in the temple?/It is disgraceful that you have not taken care of the work in the temple.)” [RHQ] So I brought the descendants of Levi and the musicians back to the temple, and told them to do their work there again.
Entonces reprendí a los dirigentes: ¿Por qué está abandonado el Templo de ʼElohim? Los reuní y los restablecí en su puesto.
12 Then all the people of Judah again started to bring to the temple storerooms their tithes of grain, wine, and [olive] oil.
Todo Judá llevó el diezmo del grano, del vino nuevo y del aceite a los depósitos.
13 I appointed these men to be in charge of the storerooms: Shelemiah, who was a priest; Zadok, who knew the Jewish laws very well; and Pedaiah, a descendant of Levi. I appointed Hanan, who is the son of Zaccur and grandson of Mattaniah, to assist them. I knew that I could trust these men while they distributed those offerings to their fellow workers.
Designé al sacerdote Selemías, al escriba Sadoc y de los levitas a Pedaías como encargado de los depósitos. Junto a ellos estaba Hanán, hijo de Zacur, hijo de Matanías, porque eran considerados fieles, y les correspondió repartir entre sus hermanos.
14 My God, do not forget all these good things that I have faithfully done for your temple and for the work that is done there!
¡Acuérdate de mí por esto, oh ʼElohim mío, y no borres mis obras leales que hice para el Templo de mi ʼElohim y su servicio!
15 During that time, I saw some people in Judea [who were working] on the Sabbath day. [Some were] pressing grapes [to make wine]. Others were putting grain, [bags of] wine, [baskets of] grapes, figs, and many [HYP] other things, on their donkeys and taking them into Jerusalem. I warned them that they should not sell things to the people of Judea on Sabbath days.
En esos días vi en Judá a unos que pisaban lagares en sábado, llevaban gavillas cargadas sobre asnos, y también traían a Jerusalén vino, uvas, higos y toda clase de carga en sábado. Protesté a causa del día cuando vendían las provisiones.
16 I also saw some people from Tyre [city] who were living there in Jerusalem who were bringing fish and other things [into Jerusalem] to sell to the people of Judea on the Sabbath day.
Vivían también en la ciudad hombres de Tiro, quienes importaban pescado y toda clase de mercancías que vendían en sábado a los hijos de Judá, aun en Jerusalén.
17 So I rebuked the Jewish leaders and told them, “This is [RHQ] a very evil thing that you are doing! You are causing the Sabbath days to be unholy.
Entonces reprendí a los jefes de Judá: ¿Qué significa esta mala acción que hacen, y profanan así el sábado?
18 Your ancestors did [RHQ] things like that, so God punished them, and as a result, this city was destroyed! And now by causing the Sabbath day to be unholy, you are going to cause God to be angry with us Israeli people [and punish us] more!”
¿No hicieron así sus antepasados, y nuestro ʼElohim trajo toda esta desgracia sobre nosotros y esta ciudad? ¡Ustedes aumentan la ira divina contra Israel al profanar el sábado!
19 So I ordered that at (the beginning of every Sabbath day/every Friday evening) they should shut the gates of the city before it became dark. I also ordered that they should not open the gates until (the Sabbath day was ended [the next day]/Saturday evening). Then [each Sabbath day] I put some of my men at the gates, so they would make sure that nothing to sell was brought into the city on that day.
Aconteció que en la víspera del sábado, cuando llegaba la noche a las puertas de Jerusalén, ordené que las puertas fueran cerradas hasta pasar el sábado. Emplacé a algunos de mis esclavos en las puertas para que no entrara alguna carga en sábado.
20 One or two times merchants [DOU] stayed outside of the city on (Friday night/[the night before the Sabbath day]).
Pero los comerciantes y vendedores de toda esa clase de mercancías pasaron la noche fuera de Jerusalén una y dos veces.
21 I warned them, “It is useless [RHQ] for you to stay here outside the walls [on Friday night]! If you do this again, I will tell my men to arrest you!” So after that, they did not come on Sabbath days.
Entonces yo les advertí: ¿Por qué pernoctan frente al muro? Si lo hacen otra vez, les echaré mano. Desde ese tiempo no volvieron en sábado.
22 I also commanded the descendants of Levi to [perform the ritual to] purify themselves and to guard the city gates, to make sure that the Sabbath was kept holy [by not allowing merchants to enter it on Sabbath days]. My God, do not forget this also that I [have done for you]! And because of your faithfully loving me, allow me to continue to live [many more years]!
Por otra parte, ordené a los levitas que se purificaran y acudieran a vigilar las puertas para santificar el día sábado. ¡Acuérdate de mí también por esto, oh ʼElohim mío, y perdóname según la inmensidad de tu misericordia!
23 During that time, I also found out that many of the Jewish men had married women from Ashdod [city], and from [the] Ammon and Moab [people-groups].
En aquellos días también vi que algunos judíos se casaron con esposas de Asdod, de Amón y Moab.
24 The result was that half of their children spoke the language that people in Ashdod speak or some other language, and they didn’t know how to speak our language.
Sus hijos hablaban a medias el lenguaje de Asdod. Ninguno de ellos podía hablar la lengua de Judá, sino el lenguaje de su propio pueblo.
25 So I rebuked those men, and I [asked God to] curse them, and I beat them and pulled out [some of] their hair. Then I forced them to solemnly promise, knowing that God [MTY] was [listening], that they would never again marry foreigners, and never allow their children to marry foreigners.
Contendí con ellos y los maldije. Castigué a algunos de ellos y les arranqué su cabello. Los juramenté por ʼElohim que dijeran: No darán sus hijas a los hijos de ellos, ni tomarán de las hijas de ellos para sus hijos, ni para ustedes mismos.
26 [I said to them], “Solomon, the king of Israel, sinned [RHQ] as a result of [marrying] foreign women. He was greater than any of the kings of other nations. God loved him, and caused him to become the king of all the Israeli people, but his foreign wives caused even him to sin.
¿No pecó Salomón, el rey de Israel por estas mismas cosas? Aunque entre muchas naciones no hubo rey como él, fue amado por su ʼElohim, y ʼElohim lo hizo rey sobre todo Israel, sin embargo, las mujeres extranjeras lo hicieron pecar.
27 [Do you think that] we should do what you have done, and disobey our God by marrying foreign women [who worship idols]? [RHQ]”
¿Entonces escucharemos de ustedes este gran mal al ser infieles contra nuestro ʼElohim y convivir con mujeres extranjeras?
28 One of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the Supreme Priest, had married the daughter of [our enemy] Sanballat, from Beth-Horon [town]. So I forced Jehoiada’s son to leave Jerusalem.
Ahuyenté de mi lado a uno de los hijos de Joiada, hijo del sumo sacerdote Eliasib, porque era yerno de Sanbalat horonita.
29 My God, do not forget that those people [who have married foreign women] have caused it to be a shame/disgrace to be a priest, and have caused people to despise the agreement that you made with the priests and with the [other] descendants of Levi [who help the priests])!
¡Acuérdate de ellos, oh ʼElohim mío, porque profanaron la investidura sacerdotal, el pacto del sacerdocio y los levitas!
30 I did all that to make sure that there were no more foreign people among the [Israeli] people [who would encourage them to worship idols]. I also established regulations for the priests and [other] descendants of Levi, in order that they would know what work they should do.
Así los purifiqué de todo lo extranjero y establecí las funciones para los sacerdotes y los levitas, cada uno en su tarea,
31 I also arranged for people to bring the firewood [that was needed to burn on the altar, as Moses had declared] that we should [do]. I also arranged for the people to bring the first part of what they harvested [each year]. My God, do not forget [that] I [have done all these things], and bless me [for doing them]!
e [hice arreglos] para la ofrenda de la leña en los tiempos señalados y las primicias. ¡Acuérdate de mí para bien, oh ʼElohim mío!
