Éxodo 32
1 Cuando el pueblo vio que Moisés se demoraba en bajar del monte, se reunió con Aarón y le dijo: “Ven, haznos dioses que vayan delante de nosotros, porque en cuanto a este Moisés, el hombre que nos sacó de la tierra de Egipto, no sabemos qué ha sido de él.”
[(Moses/I) stayed on top of the mountain a long time]. When the people realized that he/I was not returning quickly, they gathered near Aaron and said to him, “We do not know what has happened to that man Moses who brought us here out of Egypt. So quickly, make us ([an idol/a statue of a god]) who will lead us!”
2 Aarón les dijo: “Quítense los anillos de oro que están en las orejas de sus esposas, de sus hijos y de sus hijas, y tráiganmelos”.
Aaron replied to them, “All right, [I will do that, but] tell your wives and your sons and your daughters to take off all their gold earrings and bring them to me.”
3 Todo el pueblo se quitó los anillos de oro que tenía en sus orejas y se los llevó a Aarón.
So the people did that. They took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
4 El recibió lo que le entregaron, lo modeló con un instrumento de grabado y lo convirtió en un becerro moldeado. Luego le dijeron: “Estos son tus dioses, Israel, que te sacaron de la tierra de Egipto”.
He took all those gold earrings and melted them in a fire. He [poured the gold into a mold and] made a statue that looked like a young bull. The people saw it and said, “This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt!”
5 Al ver esto, Aarón construyó un altar delante de él; y Aarón hizo una proclama y dijo: “Mañana será una fiesta para Yahvé.”
When Aaron saw [what was happening], he built an altar in front of the [statue of the] young bull. Then he announced, “Tomorrow we will have a festival to honor Yahweh!”
6 Al día siguiente se levantaron temprano, ofrecieron holocaustos y trajeron ofrendas de paz; el pueblo se sentó a comer y a beber, y se levantó a jugar.
So the people got up early the next morning and brought animals to kill and burn as sacrifices on the altar. They also brought sacrifices to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. Then they sat down to eat and drink [wine]. Then they got up and started dancing in a very immoral way.
7 El Señor le dijo a Moisés: “Ve, baja, porque tu pueblo, al que sacaste de la tierra de Egipto, se ha corrompido.
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Go back down from the mountain, because your people, the ones that you brought up here from Egypt, have [already] (become very depraved/wicked)!
8 Se han desviado rápidamente del camino que les ordené. Se han hecho un becerro moldeado, lo han adorado y le han ofrecido sacrificios, y han dicho: ‘Estos son tus dioses, Israel, que te hicieron subir de la tierra de Egipto’.”
They have already (left the road that I showed them/stopped obeying me)! They have made [a statue of] a young bull from melted gold. They have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. And they are saying, ‘This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from Egypt!’”
9 Yahvé dijo a Moisés: “He visto a este pueblo, y he aquí que es un pueblo de dura cerviz.
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “I have seen that these people are very stubborn.
10 Ahora, pues, déjame en paz, para que arda mi ira contra ellos y los consuma; y haré de ti una gran nación.”
I am very angry with them, and so I am going to get rid of them. Do not try to stop me! Then I will cause you and your descendants to become a great nation.”
11 Moisés suplicó a su Dios y le dijo: “Señor, ¿por qué arde tu ira contra tu pueblo, que sacaste de la tierra de Egipto con gran poder y con mano poderosa?
But Moses/I pleaded with his/my God, Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, (you should not be very angry with your people!/why are you so angry with your people [RHQ]?) These are the people whom you rescued from Egypt with very great power [MTY, DOU]!
12 ¿Por qué han de hablar los egipcios diciendo: ‘Los sacó para mal, para matarlos en los montes y consumirlos de la superficie de la tierra’? Vuélvete de tu feroz ira, y aléjate de este mal contra tu pueblo.
Do not [do anything that would] allow the people of Egypt to say, ‘Their god led them out from our country, but [he did that] only [because he wanted] to kill them in the mountains and get rid of them completely [RHQ]!’ Stop being so angry! (Change your mind/Do not do what you have told me that you will do)! Do not do to your people this terrible thing [that you have just said that you will do]
13 Acuérdate de Abraham, de Isaac y de Israel, tus siervos, a quienes juraste por ti mismo y les dijiste: ‘Multiplicaré tu descendencia como las estrellas del cielo, y toda esta tierra de la que he hablado se la daré a tu descendencia, y la heredarán para siempre’.”
Think about your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You solemnly promised them, ‘I will enable you to have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky.’ You said to them, ‘I will give to your descendants all the land that I am promising to give them. It will be their land forever.’”
14 Entonces Yahvé se apartó del mal que dijo que haría a su pueblo.
So Yahweh changed his mind. He did not do to his people the terrible thing that he said he would do.
15 Moisés se volvió y bajó del monte con las dos tablas del testimonio en la mano, tablas que estaban escritas por ambos lados. Estaban escritas de un lado y del otro.
Moses/I turned away from God and went down the mountain, carrying in his hands the two stone slabs on which Yahweh had engraved his commandments. He had written on both sides of the slabs.
16 Las tablas eran obra de Dios, y la escritura era la escritura de Dios, grabada en las tablas.
God [himself] had made the slabs, and he was the one who had engraved the commandments on them.
17 Cuando Josué oyó el ruido del pueblo al gritar, dijo a Moisés: “Hay ruido de guerra en el campamento”.
Joshua heard the very loud noise of the people shouting. So when he and I got near the camp, Joshua said, “There is a noise in the camp that sounds like [the noise of] a battle!”
18 Dijo: “No es la voz de los que gritan por la victoria. No es la voz de los que gritan por ser vencidos, sino el ruido de los que cantan lo que oigo”.
But Moses/I replied, [“No], that is not the shouting that people do when they have won a victory or when they have been defeated [in a battle] What I hear is the sound of [loud] singing!”
19 En cuanto se acercó al campamento, vio el becerro y las danzas. Entonces la ira de Moisés se encendió, y arrojó las tablas de sus manos, y las rompió debajo de la montaña.
As soon as Moses/I came close to the camp and saw the statue of the young bull and saw the people dancing, he/I became extremely angry. He/I threw the stone tablets that he/I was carrying down onto the ground, there at the base of the mountain.
20 Tomó el becerro que habían hecho, lo quemó con fuego, lo molió hasta hacerlo polvo y lo esparció sobre el agua, e hizo que los hijos de Israel lo bebieran.
Then he/I took the statue of the young bull that they had made and melted it in the fire. [When it cooled], he/I ground it into [fine] powder. Then he/I mixed the powder with water and forced the Israeli people to drink it.
21 Moisés le dijo a Aarón: “¿Qué te ha hecho esta gente para que les hayas provocado un gran pecado?”
Then he/I said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, with the result that you have made them commit such a terrible sin?”
22 Aarón dijo: “No dejes que se caliente la ira de mi señor. Tú conoces al pueblo, que está empeñado en el mal.
Aaron replied, “Please do not be angry with me, sir. You know that these people are very determined to do evil things.
23 Porque me han dicho: ‘Haznos dioses que vayan delante de nosotros’. En cuanto a este Moisés, el hombre que nos sacó de la tierra de Egipto, no sabemos qué ha sido de él’.
They said to me, ‘As for that man Moses, the one who brought us up here from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him. So make for us an idol that will lead us!’
24 Les dije: ‘El que tenga oro, que lo saque’. Y me lo dieron; lo eché al fuego, y salió este becerro”.
So I said to them, ‘Everyone who is wearing [gold earrings] should take them off.’ So they [took them off and] gave them to me. I threw them into the fire, and out came this statue of a young bull!”
25 Cuando Moisés vio que el pueblo estaba fuera de control, (pues Aarón los había dejado perder el control, causando la burla de sus enemigos),
Moses/I saw that Aaron had allowed the people to become completely out of control and to do things that would make their enemies think the Israeli people were foolish.
26 entonces Moisés se paró en la puerta del campamento y dijo: “¡Quien esté del lado de Yahvé, venga a mí!” Todos los hijos de Leví se reunieron con él.
So he/I stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, “Everyone who is loyal to Yahweh should come [closer] to me!” So the descendants of Levi gathered around him/me.
27 Él les dijo: “Yahvé, el Dios de Israel, dice: ‘Cada uno ponga su espada en el muslo y vaya de puerta en puerta por todo el campamento, y cada uno mate a su hermano, a su compañero y a su vecino’”.
Then he/I said to them, “Yahweh, the God of us Israeli people, commands that every one of you should fasten your sword to your side, and then go through the camp from this entrance to the other one, and kill some of your relatives and your companions and your neighbors.”
28 Los hijos de Leví hicieron lo que dijo Moisés. Ese día cayeron unos tres mil hombres del pueblo.
The descendants of Levi did what Moses/I told them to do, and they killed 3,000 men on that day.
29 Moisés dijo: “Conságrense hoy a Yahvé, porque cada hombre estaba en contra de su hijo y de su hermano, para que él les dé hoy una bendición.”
Moses/I said to the descendants of Levi, “Today you have dedicated yourselves to serving Yahweh by (killing/not sparing) [even] your own sons and brothers, and as a result Yahweh will bless you.”
30 Al día siguiente, Moisés dijo al pueblo: “Habéis cometido un gran pecado. Ahora subiré a Yahvé. Tal vez haga expiación por su pecado”.
The next day, Moses/I said to the people, “You have committed a terrible sin. But I will now climb up the mountain again to talk with Yahweh. Perhaps I can [persuade him] to forgive you for sinning [like this].”
31 Moisés volvió a Yahvé y dijo: “Oh, este pueblo ha cometido un gran pecado y se ha hecho dioses de oro.
So Moses/I went back up the mountain and said to Yahweh, “I am sorry to admit that these people have committed a terrible sin. They have made for themselves a gold idol and have worshiped it.
32 Pero ahora, si quieres, perdona su pecado; y si no, por favor, bórrame de tu libro que has escrito.”
But now I ask you to please forgive them for having sinned. If you will not forgive them, then erase my name from the book in which you have written [the names of your people].”
33 Yahvé dijo a Moisés: “A quien haya pecado contra mí, lo borraré de mi libro.
But Yahweh said to Moses/me, “It is [only] those who have sinned against me whose names I will erase from that book.
34 Ahora ve, conduce al pueblo al lugar del que te he hablado. He aquí que mi ángel irá delante de ti. Sin embargo, el día en que yo castigue, los castigaré por su pecado”.
Now you go back down and lead the [Israeli] people to the place that I told you about. Keep in mind that my angel will go in front of you. But, at the time that I determine, I will punish them for their sin.”
35 El Señor golpeó al pueblo por lo que hicieron con el becerro que hizo Aarón.
[Later] Yahweh caused a plague to strike the people because they had told Aaron to make the gold [statue of a] young bull.
