Numbers 19
1 Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,
Yavé habló a Moisés y a Aarón:
2 “I am now giving to you another regulation. Tell the Israeli people to bring to you one reddish-brown cow that has no defects. It must be an animal that (has never been/no one has ever) used for plowing ground.
Ésta es la ordenanza de la Ley que Yavé ordenó: Dí a los hijos de Israel que te traigan una vaca bermeja, perfecta, en la cual no haya defecto, sobre la cual no se haya puesto yugo.
3 Give it to Eleazar, the priest. He must take it outside the camp and slaughter it [and drain the blood in a basin].
La darán al sacerdote Eleazar, quien la sacará fuera del campamento, y [uno] la degollará en presencia de él.
4 He must dip one of his fingers in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times [on the ground] near the Sacred Tent.
Luego el sacerdote Eleazar tomará de su sangre con su dedo, y con esa sangre rociará siete veces hacia la parte delantera del Tabernáculo de Reunión.
5 Then, while Eleazar watches, the cow must be burned completely—its hide, its meat, [the rest of] its blood, and even its dung.
Después [uno] quemará la vaca delante de él. Se quemará la piel, la carne, la sangre y el estiércol.
6 Eliezer then must take a stick of cedar wood, a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop, and some scarlet/red yarn, and throw them into the fire where the cow is burning.
El sacerdote tomará un palo de cedro, un hisopo y escarlata, y los echará en medio de la hoguera de la vaca.
7 “Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe. After doing that, he may return to the camp. But he will be unfit for doing any sacred work until that evening.
El sacerdote lavará sus vestiduras con agua, lavará su cuerpo en agua y después entrará en el campamento, pero el sacerdote quedará impuro hasta llegar la noche.
8 The man who burns the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe, and he will also be unacceptable to me until that evening.
También el que la quemó lavará su ropa y su cuerpo con agua, y será impuro hasta llegar la noche.
9 “Then someone who has not become unacceptable to me must gather up the ashes of the cow and put them in a (sacred place/place that is acceptable to me) outside the camp. The ashes must be kept there for the people of Israel to [use when they] mix it with water for the ritual to remove the guilt of sin.
Luego, un hombre purificado recogerá las cenizas de la vaca y las pondrá en un lugar limpio fuera del campamento. La congregación de los hijos de Israel las guardará para [preparar] el agua que limpia de impureza.
10 The man who gathers up the ashes of the cow must [also] wash his clothes, and he [also] will be unfit to do any more sacred work until that evening. That is a regulation that will never be changed. It must be obeyed by you Israeli people and by any foreigners who live among you.
El que haya recogido las cenizas de la vaca lavará sus ropas y quedará impuro hasta llegar la noche. Esto será estatuto perpetuo para los hijos de Israel y el extranjero que peregrina entre ellos.
11 “All those who touch a corpse will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
El que toque el cadáver de una persona será impuro siete días.
12 On the third day and on the seventh day [after touching a corpse], in order to become acceptable to me again, [they must have sprinkled on them] some of that water for removing the guilt of their sin. If they do not do that on both of those days, they will continue to be unacceptable to me.
Al tercer día se purificará con esa agua, y al séptimo día quedará limpio. Pero si al tercer día no se purifica, no quedará limpio al séptimo día.
13 All those who touch a corpse, and do not perform in the correct way the ritual to become acceptable to me again, defile Yahweh’s Sacred Tent. They will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people. The water to remove the guilt of sin was not sprinkled on them, so they continue to be unacceptable to me.
Todo el que toque el cadáver de una persona, y no se purifique, contamina el Tabernáculo de Yavé. Esta persona será cortada de Israel, por cuanto el agua para la impureza no fue rociada sobre él. Será impuro y su impureza estará sobre él.
14 “There is another ritual that must be performed when someone dies inside a tent. All those who were inside that tent when that person died or who enter that tent will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
Esta es la Ley para cuando un hombre muera en una tienda: Todo el que entre en la tienda y todo el que esté en ella, estará impuro siete días.
15 Any jars that are inside that tent that are not covered are not permitted to be used.
Toda vasija abierta que no tenga la tapa bien ajustada quedará impura.
16 If someone who is out in a field touches the corpse of someone who was murdered, or who died from natural causes, or if someone touches a bone from some human or touches a grave, that person will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
Cualquiera que toque un muerto por espada en el campo, o cualquier muerto, osamenta o sepulcro, quedará impuro siete días.
17 “For someone like that to become acceptable to me again, some of the ashes from [the cow] that was burned must be taken and put in a jar. Then some fresh water must be poured over the ashes.
Para ese impuro se tomará ceniza de la vaca quemada en el sacrificio que apacigua, y se echará agua corriente sobre ella en una vasija.
18 Then someone who is still acceptable to me must take a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop and dip it into the water. Then that person must sprinkle some of the water on the tent where that person died, on the things that are in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent. He must also sprinkle some of that water on any person who touched a human bone or who touched a person who died, or who touched a grave.
Luego, un hombre purificado tomará una rama de hisopo y la mojará en el agua. Rociará la tienda, todos los utensilios y a las personas que estén allí junto con aquel que haya tocado la osamenta, el cadáver o el sepulcro.
19 On the third day and on the seventh day after that, the person who is acceptable to me must sprinkle some of that water on those who have become unacceptable to me. On the seventh day, the people who are performing that ritual to become acceptable to me again must wash their clothes and bathe. If they do that, on that evening they will become acceptable to me again.
El tercero y el séptimo día, el que está purificado rociará al impuro. Cuando lo haya purificado el séptimo día, lavará sus ropas y se lavará en agua. Al llegar la noche quedará purificado.
20 “If those who have become unacceptable to me do not become acceptable to me again by doing this, they will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people, because they have defiled my Sacred Tent. They did not sprinkle on themselves the water that removes the guilt of their sins, so they remain unacceptable to me.
Pero el que esté impuro y no se purifique, esa persona será cortada de en medio de la congregación, porque contaminó el Santuario de Yavé. El agua para la impureza no se roció sobre él, por tanto es impuro.
21 That is a law for the Israeli people that will never be changed. Those who sprinkle that water on themselves must then wash their clothes. And anyone who touches that water which removes guilt for sins will remain unacceptable to God until that evening.
Les será estatuto perpetuo. El que roció el agua para la purificación lavará sus ropas, y el que sacó el agua para la purificación será impura hasta llegar la noche.
22 “If someone touches a thing or a person that has become unacceptable to me, that person will remain unacceptable to me until that evening.”
Todo lo que el impuro toque será impuro, y la persona que lo toque quedará impuro hasta llegar la noche.
