Levítico 26

1 “No hagas ídolos en ninguna parte de la tierra ni te inclinespara adorarlos, ya sean imágenes o altares sagrados, o esculturas de piedra. Porque yo soy el Señor tu Dios.

[Yahweh also said this to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain]: “Do not make idols or set up statues of false gods or sacred stones [to worship other gods]. And do not put on your property a stone that has been shaped [to resemble a false god] and bow down to [worship] it. [You must worship only] me, Yahweh, your God.

2 “Guarda mis sábados y respeta mi santuario. Yo soy el Señor.

“Honor the Sabbath days and revere my Sacred Tent, because I, Yahweh, [live there].

3 “Si sigues mis reglas y guardas mis mandamientos,

“If you carefully obey all my commands [DOU],

4 me aseguraré de que llueva en el tiempo adecuado para que la tierra crezca bien y los árboles den su fruto.

I will send rain for you at the proper/right times, in order that crops will grow on your land and there will be plenty of fruit on your trees.

5 Tu tiempo de trilla durará hasta la cosecha de la uva, y la cosecha de la uva hasta el momento en que tengas que volver a sembrar. Tendrán más que suficiente para comer y vivirán seguros en su tierra.

You will continue [harvesting and] threshing [grain] until it is time to harvest grapes, and you will continue to harvest grapes until it is time to start planting [things in the following year]. And you will have all the food that you want to eat, and you will live safely in your land.

6 Me aseguraré de que tu tierra esté en paz. Podrás dormir sin tener miedo de nada. Me desharé de los animales peligrosos de la tierra, y no sufrirás ningún ataque violento del enemigo.

“[If you obey all my laws], there will be peace in your country, and when you lie down [to sleep], nothing will cause you to be afraid. I will get rid of the dangerous animals in your country, and there will no wars [MTY] in your country.

7 Perseguirás a tus enemigos y los matarás con la espada.

You will pursue your enemies and kill them with your swords:

8 Cinco de ustedes matarán a cien, y cien de ustedes matarán a diez mil. Destruirás a tus enemigos.

Five of you will pursue 100 of them, and 100 of you will pursue 1,000 of them and kill them with your swords.

9 “Vendré a ayudarte, para que te reproduzcas y aumentes en número, y confirmaré mi acuerdo contigo.

“[If you obey all my laws], I will bless you and cause you to have many children [DOU]. And I will do what I said that I would do in the agreement that I made with you.

10 Seguirás comiendo tu viejo stock de grano cuando necesites deshacerte de él para poder almacenar el nuevo grano.

When you are still eating food from the harvest from the previous year, it will be necessary for you to throw away some of it to make space for the new harvest.

11 Vendré a vivir contigo, no te rechazaré.

I will live among you in my Sacred Tent, and I will never reject you.

12 Siempre estaré a tu lado. Seré tu Dios, y tú serás mi pueblo.

I will walk among you and continue to be your God, and you will continue to be my people.

13 Yo soy el Señor tu Dios, que te sacó de Egipto para que no tuvieras que ser más esclavo de los egipcios. Rompí el yugo que te mantenía agachado y te ayudaba a mantenerte erguido.

I am Yahweh your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt in order that you would no longer be slaves of the people of Egypt. [When you were there, you were treated as though you were animals that worked for the people of Egypt, but] [MET] I broke the bars of the (yokes/frames that were put around your necks) and enabled you to walk with your heads up.”

14 “Pero si no me prestas atención y haces lo que te digo;

“But if you will not heed me and obey all these commands,

15 si rechazas mis leyes, odias mis reglamentos y te niegas a seguir mis mandamientos y, por consiguiente, rompes mi acuerdo,

and if you reject [DOU] my decrees and laws, and do not do [DOU] what I commanded you to do in the agreement that I made with you,

16 entonces esto es lo que te voy a hacer: Te haré entrar en pánico y sufrirás enfermedades como tuberculosis y fiebre, que te dejarán ciego y te consumirán. Será inútil para ti sembrar en tus campos porque tus enemigos se comerán la cosecha.

these are the things that I will do to you: I will suddenly cause there to be disasters that will ruin you. You will have diseases that cannot be cured, and fevers that will cause you to become blind and will slowly kill you. It will be useless for you to plant seeds, because your enemies will eat the crops that grow.

17 Me volveré contra ti y serás derrotado por tus enemigos. La gente que te odia gobernará sobre ti, ¡y huirás incluso cuando nadie te esté persiguiendo!

I will reject/abandon you [IDM], with the result that you will be defeated by your enemies. Then those who hate you will rule you, and [you will be so terrified that] you will run away even when no one is pursuing you.

18 “Si después de todo esto todavía te niegas a obedecerme, pasaré a castigarte siete veces por tus pecados.

“If you still will not heed me after all those things happen to you, I will continue to punish you again and again for the sins that you have committed.

19 Romperé tu fuerza autosuficiente de la que estás tan orgulloso, y haré que tu cielo sea duro como el hierro y tu tierra dura como el bronce.

I will cause you to no longer be stubborn and proud; I will cause [no rain to fall; it will be as though] [MET] the sky is made of iron; and the ground will be [as hard as] brass [MET].

20 Tu fuerza será en completamente en vano porque su tierra no producirá cultivos, y sus árboles no darán frutos.

You will uselessly work very hard [to plant seeds], because crops will not grow in the hard soil in your fields, and fruit will not grow on your trees.

21 “Si continúas oponiéndote a mí y negándote a hacer lo que te digo, haré que tus castigos sean siete veces peores, basados en tus pecados.

“If you continue to oppose me and refuse to heed me, I will cause you to experience disasters again and again, like you deserve to experience because of your sins.

22 Enviaré animales salvajes a matar a sus hijos, a eliminar su ganado y a haceros tan pocos que no habrá nadie en sus caminos.

I will send wild animals to attack you, and they will kill your little children and destroy your cattle. There will be very few of you who will remain alive, with the result that there will be very few [HYP] people walking on the roads in your country.

23 “Sin embargo, si a pesar de toda esta corrección no cambian sino que siguen en rebeldía contra a mí,

“When you experience those things that I do to punish you, if you still do not pay attention to me, and if you continue to oppose me,

24 entonces tomaré medidas contra ustedes. Te castigaré siete veces por tus pecados.

I myself will oppose you, and I will punish you for your sins again and again.

25 Enviaré a los enemigos con espadas para que te ataquen por quebrantar el pacto. Aunque te retires a tus ciudades para defenderte, te plagaré de enfermedades y serás entregado a tus enemigos.

I will send [foreign] [MTY] to punish you for not doing the things that I commanded you to do in the agreement that I made with you. If you [try to escape from your enemies by] shutting yourselves in your cities [that have walls around them], I will cause you to experience plagues, and I will allow your enemies to capture [IDM] you.

26 Enviaré una hambruna para que haya escasez de pan. Un horno servirá para las necesidades de diez mujeres que hacen pan. Se distribuirá por peso para que coman, pero no tendrán suficiente.

When I cut off your food supply, there will be very little flour with which to make bread. As a result, ten women will be able to bake all their bread in [only] one oven. [When the bread is baked], each woman will divide it [among the members of her family, but there will be very little for each one], and when they have eaten all of it, they will still be hungry.

27 “Sin embargo, si a pesar de todo esto no me obedecen, sino que siguen en oposición a mí,

“After all those things happen, if you still do not heed me, if you still oppose me,

28 entonces actuaré contra ustedes con furia, y yo mismo los castigaré siete veces por sus pecados.

I will be very angry with you, and I will oppose you, and I myself will punish you for your sins again and again.

29 Se comerán los cuerpos de sus propios hijos e hijas.

[You will be extremely hungry, with the result that] you will [kill] your sons and daughters and eat their flesh.

30 Destruiré sus lugares altos de adoración, destrozaré sus altares de incienso, y apilaré sus cadáveres sobre lo que queda de sus ídolos, que tampoco tienen vida alguna. Los despreciaré de verdad.

I will cause the shrines [where you worship idols] on hilltops to be destroyed. I will smash the altars where you burn incense [to worship your gods], and I will cause your corpses to be piled on the lifeless statues of your gods. And I will detest you.

31 Demolerésus ciudades y destruiré sus santuarios paganos, y me negaré a aceptar sus sacrificios.

I will cause your cities to become heaps of ruins, and I will cause the buildings that are dedicated to the worship of your gods to be smashed. And I will not be pleased at all with the aroma of your offerings [that are burned on the altar].

32 Yo mismo devastaré su tierra, para que sus enemigos que vengan a vivir en ella se horroricen de lo que ha sucedido.

I will completely ruin your country, with the result that even your enemies who capture it will be shocked/appalled [when they see it].

33 Los dispersaré entre las naciones. Serán perseguidos por ejércitos con espadas mientras su tierra queda en ruinas y sus pueblos son destruidos.

I will enable [your enemies to kill you with] their swords, and I will cause the rest of you to be scattered among other nations. Your country will be ruined and your cities will become ruins.

34 Al menos entonces la tierra podrá disfrutar de sus sábados todo el tiempo que esté abandonada mientras ustedes estén exiliados en la tierra de sus enemigos. La tierra finalmente podrá descansar y disfrutar de sus sábados.

After that happens, as long as you are living in your enemies’ countries, your land will be allowed to rest, like you should have allowed it to rest every seven years.

35 Todo el tiempo que la tierra esté abandonada, observará los sábados de descanso que no pudo guardar mientras ustedes vivían en ella.

All the time that your land is desolate, it will be able to rest, like you did not enable it to rest during all the years that you lived there.

36 “Haré que aquellos de ustedes que sobrevivan se desanimen tanto que mientras vivan en las tierras de sus enemigos incluso el sonido de una hoja soplando en el viento les asustará para que huyan! Huirán como si fuerais perseguidos por alguien con una espada, y caerán aunque nadie los persiga.

“As for you people who will remain alive in the countries to which your enemies [will have taken you], I will cause you to become so afraid that when you hear the sound of leaves being blown by the wind, you will run away. You will run like [SIM] you are running from [a man carrying] a sword, and you will fall down, even though no one is pursuing you.

37 Tropezarán unos con otros como si huyeran del ataque, aunque no venga nadie. No tendrás poder para resistir a tus enemigos.

You will stumble over each other. So you will not be able to stand and fight your enemies.

38 Morirás en el exilio y serás enterrado en un país extranjero.

Many of you will die in the countries that belong to your enemies [DOU].

39 Aquellos que logren sobrevivir en los países de sus enemigos se marchitarán por su culpa, pudriéndose al compartir los pecados de sus padres.

And those of you who remain alive will slowly die and rot in the countries of your enemies because of your sins and because of the sins of your ancestors.

40 “Necesitan confesar sus pecados y los de sus padres, actuando de manera tan infiel hacia mí, oponiéndose a mí.

“But your descendants must confess their sins and the sins that their ancestors committed. Their ancestors acted unfaithfully toward me and were hostile to me, with the result that I forced them to go to the countries that belonged to their enemies. But when your descendants humble themselves [SYN] and stop being very stubborn [IDM] and accept being punished for their sins,

41 Por eso tomé medidas contra ellos y los exilié en los países de sus enemigos. Sin embargo, si humildemente abandonan su actitud obstinada y aceptan el castigo por sus pecados,

42 entonces cumpliré el acuerdo que hice con Jacob, Isaac y Abraham, y no olvidaré mi promesa sobre la tierra.

I will remember the agreement that I made with [your ancestors] Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and [what I promised them about] this land.

43 Porque la tierra quedará vacía para ellos, y disfrutará de sus sábados siendo abandonada. Pagarán por sus pecados, porque rechazaron mis reglas y regulaciones.

But [before that happens], you will be forced to leave your land, with the result that the land will be able to rest while it is desolate and while the people are being punished for rejecting my laws and hating my decrees [DOU].

44 “Pero a pesar de todo esto, aunque vivan en la tierra de sus enemigos, no los rechazaré ni los odiaré tanto como para destruirlos y romper mi acuerdo con ellos, porque yo soy el Señor su Dios.

But when that happens, I will still not reject them or hate them and destroy them completely. I will not cancel the agreement that I made with them; for I am still Yahweh their God.

45 Por ellos renovaré el acuerdo que hice con sus padres, a los que saqué de Egipto como las otras naciones observaron, para ser su Dios. Yo soy el Señor”.

I will (remember/never forget) the agreement that I made with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, in order that the people of all nations will know that I, Yahweh, [will continue to] be your God.”

46 Estas son las normas, reglamentos y leyes que el Señor estableció entre él y los israelitas a través de Moisés en el Monte Sinaí.

Those are the decrees, the laws, and the regulations [DOU] that Yahweh established on Sinai Mountain between himself and the Israeli people by [giving them to] Moses/me [to tell to them].