Levítico 21
1 El Señor le dijo a Moisés: “Dile a los hijos de Aarón, los sacerdotes: Un sacerdote no debe ensuciarse tocando el cadáver de ninguno de sus parientes.
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
2 Las únicas excepciones son para su familia inmediata. Esto incluye a su madre, padre, hijo, hija o hermano,
‘You priests must not cause yourselves to become unfit to do my work by [touching] corpses. Priests are permitted to touch only the corpses of close relatives, such as the priest’s mother or father or his son or daughter or his brother.
3 o a su hermana soltera ya que es un pariente cercano porque no tiene marido.
Priests are also permitted to touch the corpse of a sister if she is not married, because she has no husband [to bury her body].
4 No debe hacerse impuro por aquellos que sólo están relacionados con él por matrimonio; no debe hacerse ceremonialmente impuro.
Priests must not cause themselves to become unfit to do my work [DOU] by [touching corpses of] people who were married to one of their close relatives.
5 “Los sacerdotes no deben afeitarse las zonas calvas de la cabeza, ni recortar los lados de la barba, ni cortar el cuerpo.
You priests must not shave your heads or shave the edges of your beards or cut your bodies [to show that you are mourning for someone who has died].
6 Deben ser santos para su Dios y no deshonrar la reputación de su Dios. Ellos son los que presentan las ofrendas de comida al Señor, la comida de su Dios. Por consiguiente, deben ser santos.
You must act in ways that I, your God, consider to be holy, and not disgrace my name/reputation. You are the ones who present to me the offerings that are burned. [It is as though] those offerings are food for me, your God; so you must act in ways that are holy.
7 “El sacerdote no debe casarse con una mujer que se ha vuelto impura por la prostitución o que se ha divorciado de su marido, porque el sacerdote debe ser santo para su Dios.
You priests must not marry women who have been prostitutes or who have been divorced from their husbands, because you priests are (set apart for me/holy).
8 Lo considerarán santo porque presenta las ofrendas de comida a su Dios. Él será santo para ti, porque yo soy santo. Yo soy el Señor, y te elegícomomi pueblo especial.
You must consider that you are holy, because you offer food to me, your God. Consider yourselves to be holy because I, Yahweh, [the one who caused you to be priests and] the one who enables you to be holy, am holy.
9 La hija de un sacerdote que se hace impura por la prostitución hace impura a su padre. Ella debe ser ejecutada por medio del holocausto.
If a priest’s daughter disgraces herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; and she must be killed by being burned in a fire.
10 “El sumo sacerdote tiene el lugar más alto entre los otros sacerdotes. Ha sido ungido con aceite de oliva vertido en su cabeza y ha sido ordenado para llevar la ropa sacerdotal. No debe dejar su pelo despeinado ni rasgar su ropa.
The Supreme Priest is the one among his relatives who has been [appointed for that work] by having his head anointed with olive oil. He is also the one who has been appointed to wear the special garments that priests wear. He must not allow the hair on his [head] to remain uncombed, and he must not tear his clothes [when he is mourning for someone].
11 No debe acercarse a ningún cadáver. No debe hacerse impuro, aunque sea por su propio padre o madre.
He must not enter some place where there is a corpse. He must not do that and cause himself to become unfit for his work, even if it is his father or his mother who has died.
12 No debe salir para tratar asuntos de un difunto o hacer que el santuario de su Dios sea impuro porque ha sido dedicado por el aceite de la unción de su Dios. Yo soy el Señor.
He must not leave the Sacred Tent [to join those who are mourning], because he would cause himself to become unfit for his work and would also defile/desecrate the Sacred Tent. He must not leave the Sacred Tent [at that time], because by being anointed with olive oil he has been (appointed/set apart) to serve his God [in the Sacred Tent]. I, Yahweh, [am the one who am commanding this].
13 “Sólo puede casarse con una virgen.
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
14 No debe casarse con una viuda, una mujer divorciada, o con una que se haya vuelto impura a través de la prostitución. Tiene que casarse con una virgen de su propio pueblo,
You priests must not marry widows or prostitutes or divorced women, because if you did that, [if you later have] sons, they would not be acceptable to be priests among your people. You must marry only virgins from among your own people. I am Yahweh, who sets priests apart to be holy.’”
15 para que no haga inmundos a sus hijos entre su pueblo, porque yo soy el Señor que lo hace santo”.
16 El Señor le dijo a Moisés,
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 “Dile a Aarón: Estas reglas se aplican a todas las generaciones futuras. Si alguno de sus descendientes tiene un defecto físico, no se le permite venir a presentar las ofrendas de su Dios.
“Say this to Aaron: 'For all future time, none of your descendants who has any defects [on his body] will be allowed to come near [the altar] to offer [sacrifices to me which will be like] [MET] my food:
18 No se permite a ningún hombre hacer esto si tiene algún defecto, incluyendo a cualquier persona ciega, lisiada, desfigurada en la cara o con deformidades,
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
19 cualquier persona que tenga un pie o brazo roto,
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 cualquier persona que sea jorobada o enana, o que tenga cataratas, llagas en la piel o costras, o un testículo dañado.
no man who is a hunchback or a dwarf, no man whose eyes are defective, no man who has a skin disease [DOU] or whose testicles have been damaged is allowed to brings sacrifices.
21 “A ningún descendiente del sacerdote Aarón que tenga un defecto se le permite venir y presentar las ofrendas de comida al Señor. Debido a que tiene un defecto, no debe venir y ofrecer la comida de su Dios.
No descendant of Aaron, the [first Supreme] Priest, who has any defect is allowed to come to the altar to offer to me, his God, sacrifices that will be burned.
22 Se le permite comer la comida del Lugar Santísimo de su Dios y también del santuario,
Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
23 pero como tiene un defecto, no se le permite acercarse a la cortina o al altar, para que mi santuario y todo lo que hay en él no se vuelva impuro, porque yo soy el Señor que los hago santos”.
But because of their defects, they must not go near the curtain [in the Sacred Tent] or near the altar, because if they did that, they would desecrate my Sacred Tent. I am Yahweh, the one who sets those places apart as being holy.'”
24 Moisés repitió esto a Aarón y a sus hijos, y a todos los israelitas.
So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
