Éxodo 13
1 Yahvé habló a Moisés, diciendo:
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
2 “Santifícame a todos los primogénitos, todo lo que abre el vientre entre los hijos de Israel, tanto de los hombres como de los animales. Es mío”.
“Set apart all the firstborn males in order that they may belong to me. The firstborn males of the Israeli people and of their animals will be mine.”
3 Moisés dijo al pueblo: “Acuérdate de este día en que saliste de Egipto, de la casa de servidumbre, porque con la fuerza de tu mano Yahvé te sacó de este lugar. No se comerá pan con levadura.
Moses/I said to the people, “Do not forget this day! This is the day that you are leaving Egypt. This is the day you [are freed from] being their slaves. Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt by his great power [MTY]. Do not eat any bread that has yeast in it [whenever you celebrate] this day.
4 Hoy salís en el mes de Abib.
You are leaving Egypt on this day, which is the first day of the month that is [named] Abib.
5 Cuando Yahvé os lleve a la tierra del cananeo, del hitita, del amorreo, del heveo y del jebuseo, que juró a vuestros padres que os daría, una tierra que mana leche y miel, celebraréis este servicio en este mes.
Later, when Yahweh brings you into the land where the descendants of Canaan, Heth, Amor, Hiv, and Jebus [now live], the land that he solemnly promised to give to you, a land that will be very good for raising livestock and growing crops [MTY], you must celebrate this festival during this month [every year].
6 Durante siete días comeréis panes sin levadura, y el séptimo día será una fiesta para Yahvé.
For seven days the bread that you eat must not have any yeast in it. On the seventh day there must be a festival to [honor] Yahweh.
7 Durante los siete días comeréis panes sin levadura, y no se verá con vosotros ningún pan con levadura. No se verá levadura con vosotros, dentro de todas vuestras fronteras.
For seven days do not eat bread that has yeast in it. You should not have any yeast or bread made with yeast anywhere in your land.
8 Ese día le dirás a tu hijo: ‘Es por lo que hizo el Señor por mí cuando salí de Egipto’.
On the day [the festival starts], you must tell your children, ‘[We are doing this to remember] what Yahweh did for our ancestors when they left Egypt.
9 Te servirá de señal en tu mano, y de recuerdo entre tus ojos, para que la ley de Yahvé esté en tu boca; porque con mano fuerte Yahvé te sacó de Egipto.
This ritual will remind you how Yahweh brought your ancestors out of Egypt with his great power [MTY]. [The ritual will be like something] you tie on your forehead or on your wrist. It will remind you to recite to others what Yahweh has instructed you.
10 Por lo tanto, guardarás esta ordenanza en su temporada de año en año.
So you must celebrate this festival every year at the time [Yahweh] has appointed.’
11 “Cuando Yahvé os introduzca en la tierra de los cananeos, como os juró a vosotros y a vuestros padres, y os la entregue,
Yahweh will bring you into the land where the descendants of Canaan live, just as he promised you and your ancestors that he would do. When he gives that land to you,
12 apartaréis para Yahvé todo lo que abra el vientre, y todo primogénito que proceda de un animal que tengáis. Los machos serán de Yahvé.
you must dedicate to Yahweh the firstborn males of all your animals. These all will belong to Yahweh.
13 Todo primogénito de asno lo redimirás con un cordero; y si no lo quieres redimir, le romperás el cuello; y redimirás todo primogénito de hombre entre tus hijos.
You may keep the firstborn male donkeys, but you must buy them back by sacrificing a lamb as a substitute for the donkey. If you do not want to buy back the donkey, you must [kill it by] breaking its neck. You must also buy back every one of your own firstborn sons.
14 Cuando tu hijo te pregunte en el futuro, diciendo: “¿Qué es esto?”, le dirás: “Con la fuerza de la mano, Yahvé nos sacó de Egipto, de la casa de servidumbre.
In the future, when one of your children asks, ‘What does this mean?’, you must say to him, ‘Yahweh brought our ancestors out of Egypt with his great power [MTY], and freed us from being slaves there.
15 Cuando el faraón se negó obstinadamente a dejarnos ir, el Señor mató a todos los primogénitos en la tierra de Egipto, tanto a los primogénitos de los hombres como a los primogénitos de los animales. Por eso sacrifico a Yahvé todo lo que abre el vientre, siendo varones; pero a todos los primogénitos de mis hijos los redimo’.
The king of Egypt stubbornly refused to let them leave his country, so Yahweh killed all the firstborn males in Egypt, both the boys and the firstborn of their livestock. That is why we now sacrifice to Yahweh all the firstborn of our livestock, but we buy back our own firstborn sons.’
16 Será como una señal en tu mano y como un símbolo entre tus ojos, porque con la fuerza de la mano Yahvé nos sacó de Egipto.”
I repeat that this ritual will remind you about how Yahweh brought our [ancestors] out of Egypt by his great power [MTY]; it will be like something you tie on your wrist or on your forehead [to remind you of that].”
17 Cuando el faraón dejó ir al pueblo, Dios no lo condujo por el camino de la tierra de los filisteos, aunque estaba cerca; porque Dios dijo: “No sea que el pueblo cambie de opinión al ver la guerra, y vuelva a Egipto”;
When the king [of Egypt] let the [Israeli] people go, God did not lead them to go through the land of the Philistines. That was a shorter way, but God said, “It would be bad if my people change their minds when they realize that they will have to fight [the Philistines to take their land], and then [decide to] return to Egypt.”
18 sino que Dios condujo al pueblo por el camino del desierto, junto al Mar Rojo; y los hijos de Israel subieron armados de la tierra de Egipto.
Instead, God led them to go around through the desert toward the Red Sea (OR, the Gulf of Suez). When the Israeli people left Egypt, they were carrying weapons to fight [their enemies].
19 Moisés llevó consigo los huesos de José, porque había hecho jurar a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: “Ciertamente Dios os visitará, y llevaréis con vosotros mis huesos.”
Moses/I [had them] take along the bones of Joseph with them/us, because Joseph long ago had made the Israeli people promise solemnly that they would do that. He had said to them, “God will enable your descendants to leave Egypt. When that happens, you must carry my bones with you.”
20 Partieron de Sucot y acamparon en Etam, en el límite del desierto.
The Israeli people left Succoth and traveled to Etham, at the edge of the desert, and they set up their tents there.
21 Yahvé iba delante de ellos de día en una columna de nube, para guiarlos en su camino, y de noche en una columna de fuego, para alumbrarles, para que pudieran ir de día y de noche:
[When they traveled] during the daytime, Yahweh went in front of them in a tall [white] cloud to show them the way. During the night, he went in front of them in a tall cloud that looked like a fire. By doing that, he enabled them to travel in the daytime and also at nighttime.
22 la columna de nube de día, y la columna de fuego de noche, no se apartaban de delante del pueblo.
The tall cloud did not leave them. It was always in front of them, as a bright white cloud in the daytime and like a fire at night.
