Levítico 23
1 Yahvé habló a Moisés, diciendo:
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
2 “Habla a los hijos de Israel y diles: ‘Las fiestas fijas de Yahvé, que proclamarás como convocatorias sagradas, son mis fiestas fijas.
“Tell the Israeli people about the festivals that I have chosen, the days when you all must gather together [to worship me].”
3 “‘Seis días se trabajará, pero el séptimo día es un día de descanso solemne, una santa convocación; no harás ninguna clase de trabajo. Es un día de reposo para Yahvé en todas vuestras moradas.
“You may work for six days [each week], but on the seventh day you must not do any work. You must rest. It is a sacred/holy day when you must gather together [to worship me]. Wherever you live, you must rest on that day.”
4 “‘Estas son las fiestas fijas de Yahvé, las convocatorias sagradas, que proclamarás a su tiempo.
“There are festivals that I have established for you. Those will also be sacred/holy days when you must gather together [to worship me].
5 En el primer mes, el día catorce del mes, por la tarde, es la Pascua de Yahvé.
[The first festival is] (the Passover/when you remember that I spared your ancestors when I killed all the firstborn Egyptian sons). That festival will begin at twilight/dusk/sunset on the chosen day (each spring/in March or April each year), [and end on the following day].
6 El decimoquinto día del mismo mes es la fiesta de los panes sin levadura para Yahvé. Durante siete días comerás panes sin levadura.
The next day, the Festival of Eating Bread That Has No Yeast will begin. That festival will continue for seven days. During that time, the bread that you eat must be made without yeast.
7 El primer día tendrás una santa convocación. No harás ningún trabajo regular.
On the first day of that festival, you all must stop your regular work and you must gather together [to worship me].
8 Pero durante los siete días ofrecerás a Yahvé una ofrenda encendida. El séptimo día es una santa convocación. No harás ningún trabajo regular”.
On each of the seven days, you must present to me [several animals to be] an offering/sacrifice to be completely burned [on the altar]. On the seventh day, you all must again stop your regular work and gather to worship me.”
9 Yahvé habló a Moisés, diciendo:
Yahweh also told Moses/me
10 “Habla a los hijos de Israel y diles: ‘Cuando hayáis entrado en la tierra que os doy y hayáis recogido su cosecha, traeréis al sacerdote la gavilla de las primicias de vuestra cosecha.
to tell the Israeli people [about other festivals]. He said, “When you arrive in the land which I am giving to you, and you harvest your crops [for the first time] there, bring to the priest some of the first grain that you harvest.
11 Él agitará la gavilla ante el Señor, para que sea aceptada por ustedes. Al día siguiente del sábado, el sacerdote la mecerá.
On the day after the [next] Sabbath/rest day, the priest will lift it up [high to dedicate it] to me, in order that I will accept it as your [gift].
12 El día en que agites la gavilla, ofrecerás un cordero macho sin defecto de un año como holocausto a Yahvé.
That same day, you must sacrifice to me a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects. You must burn it [on the altar].
13 La ofrenda con él será de dos décimas de efa de harina fina mezclada con aceite, ofrenda encendida a Yahvé en olor agradable; y la libación con él será de vino, la cuarta parte de un hin.
You must also burn an offering of grain. That offering must consist of (three quarts/3.5 liters) of good flour mixed with [olive] oil. The smell [of those things burning] will be very pleasing to me. Along with that, you must also offer one quart/liter of wine, which will be a liquid offering.
14 No debes comer pan, ni grano tostado, ni grano fresco, hasta este mismo día, hasta que hayas traído la ofrenda de tu Dios. Este es un estatuto para siempre a través de vuestras generaciones en todas vuestras moradas.
Do not eat any bread or any roasted grain or unroasted grain on that day until after you have brought those offerings to me, your God. You must always obey [LIT] those commands, wherever you live.”
15 “‘Contarás desde el día siguiente al sábado, desde el día en que trajiste la gavilla de la ofrenda mecida: se completarán siete sábados.
“Seven weeks after the priest offers that grain to me,
16 Al día siguiente del séptimo sábado contarás cincuenta días, y ofrecerás una nueva ofrenda a Yahvé.
on the next/50th day after he offers it, [each family] must bring to me an offering from the new crop of grain.
17 Sacaréis de vuestras moradas dos panes para la ofrenda mecida, hechos de dos décimas de efa de harina fina. Serán cocidos con levadura, como primicias para Yahvé.
From your homes, bring two loaves of bread [to the priest]. He will lift them up [high to dedicate them] as an offering to me. Those loaves must be baked from three quarts/liters of good flour that has yeast mixed with it. That bread will be an offering to me from the first wheat that you harvest [each year].
18 Con el pan presentarás siete corderos de un año sin defecto, un novillo y dos carneros. Serán un holocausto para Yahvé, con su ofrenda y sus libaciones, una ofrenda encendida, de dulce aroma para Yahvé.
Along with this bread, you must present to me seven one-year-old lambs with no defects, one young bull, and two rams. They must all be completely burned [on the altar]. All those offerings, with the grain offering and the wine offering, will be burned, and the smell [of all those things burning] will be very pleasing to me.
19 Ofrecerás un macho cabrío como ofrenda por el pecado, y dos corderos de un año como sacrificio de paz.
Then you must also kill one male goat to be an offering/sacrifice for your sins, and two one-year-old male lambs to be an offering to enable you to maintain fellowship with me.
20 El sacerdote los agitará con el pan de las primicias como ofrenda mecida ante Yahvé, junto con los dos corderos. Serán sagrados para Yahvé para el sacerdote.
The priest will lift up these offerings [high to dedicate them] to me. He will also offer the loaves of bread that were baked from the first wheat that you harvest. Those offerings are sacred to me, but they are for the priests [to eat].
21 Ese mismo día proclamarás que habrá una convocatoria sagrada para ti. No harás ningún trabajo regular. Este es un estatuto para siempre en todas vuestras moradas a lo largo de vuestras generaciones.
On that day, you must stop your regular work and gather to worship me. You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.
22 “‘Cuando recojas la cosecha de tu tierra, no debes segar totalmente en los rincones de tu campo. No debes recoger los restos de tu cosecha. Debes dejarlos para el pobre y para el extranjero. Yo soy Yahvé, tu Dios”.
“When you harvest the grain in your fields, do not harvest the grain along the edges of the fields, and do not pick up the grain that the harvesters drop. Leave that grain for the poor people and for the foreigners who are living among you. [Do not forget that it is] I, Yahweh your God, [who am commanding those things]!”
23 Yahvé habló a Moisés, diciendo:
Yahweh also told Moses/me
24 “Habla a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: ‘En el séptimo mes, el primer día del mes, habrá un descanso solemne para ustedes, un memorial de toque de trompetas, una convocatoria santa.
to give these instructions/commands to the Israeli people: “[Each year] in September, on the day that I have chosen, you all must celebrate it by completely resting. You must not do any work on that day. When [the priests] blow their trumpets loudly, you all must gather together to worship me.
25 No haréis ningún trabajo regular. Ofreceréis una ofrenda encendida a Yahvé’”.
All of you must not do your regular work on that day. Instead, you must present offerings to me that will be burned [on the altar].”
26 Yahvé habló a Moisés diciendo:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
27 “Sin embargo, el décimo día de este séptimo mes es el día de la expiación. Será para ustedes una convocatoria sagrada. Os afligiréis y ofreceréis una ofrenda encendida a Yahvé.
“You must celebrate a day [on which you request that I] forgive you for the sins that you have committed. That day will be nine days after the festival [when the priests blow] the trumpets. On that day you must (fast/abstain from eating food). You must gather together to worship me and present offerings to me that will be burned [on the altar].
28 No haréis ninguna clase de trabajo en ese mismo día, porque es un día de expiación, para expiaros ante Yahvé vuestro Dios.
You must not do any work on that day, because it is the day when the priests will offer sacrifices to me to (atone for/ask me to forgive) your sins.
29 Porque el que no se niegue a sí mismo en ese mismo día, será cortado de su pueblo.
You must expel from your group anyone who does not (fast/abstain from eating food) on that day.
30 El que haga cualquier tipo de trabajo en ese mismo día, yo destruiré a esa persona de entre su pueblo.
I will get rid of anyone who does any kind of work on that day.
31 No harás ninguna clase de trabajo: es un estatuto para siempre a través de tus generaciones en todas tus moradas.
You must not work at all! You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.
32 Será para vosotros un sábado de descanso solemne, y os negaréis a vosotros mismos. En el noveno día del mes, al atardecer, de tarde en tarde, guardaréis vuestro sábado”.
That day will be a day of complete rest for all of you, and on that day you must (fast/abstain from eating food) [to show that you are sorry for having sinned]. That day of rest and (fasting/abstaining from eating food) will begin on the evening before the day in which you ask me to forgive you for your sins, and it will end on the evening of the following day.”
33 Yahvé habló a Moisés, diciendo:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
34 “Habla a los hijos de Israel y diles: ‘El día quince de este mes séptimo es la fiesta de las cabañas durante siete días a Yahvé.
“Tell the Israeli people that [each year] they must also celebrate a festival of living in temporary shelters. That festival will begin five days after the day in which they request me to forgive them for their sins. It will last for seven days.
35 El primer día será una convocatoria sagrada. No harás ningún trabajo regular.
On the first day of that festival, the people must gather together to worship me, and they must not do any regular work on that day.
36 Durante los siete días ofrecerás a Yahvé una ofrenda encendida. El octavo día será una convocatoria sagrada para ustedes. Ofreceréis a Yahvé una ofrenda encendida. Es una asamblea solemne; no harás ningún trabajo regular.
On each of the seven days of the festival, they must present to me an offering [of animals] that will be burned [on the altar]. On the next day, they must gather again to worship me and present to me another animal that will be burned [on the altar]. That also will be a sacred gathering, and they must not work on that day, either.
37 “‘Estas son las fiestas señaladas por Yahvé, que proclamarás como convocatorias sagradas, para ofrecer una ofrenda encendida a Yahvé, un holocausto, una ofrenda de comida, un sacrificio y ofrendas de bebida, cada una en su día —
“[To summarize], those are the festivals that I have appointed. Celebrate those sacred festivals by gathering together to present to me all the various offerings that will be burned [on the altar]—animals that will be burned completely, and offerings of grain, and offerings to enable the Israeli people to maintain fellowship with me, and offerings of wine. Each offering must be brought on the day that I have indicated.
38 además de los sábados de Yahvé, y además de tus dones, y además de todos tus votos, y además de todas tus ofrendas voluntarias, que das a Yahvé.
(Those festivals must be celebrated/You must celebrate those festivals) in addition to [worshiping on] the (Sabbath days/days of rest). And all those offerings must be given in addition to the offerings that people personally decide to give, and in addition to the offerings that people make to accompany the solemn promises that they have made, or offerings that people make (voluntarily/because they themselves want to).
39 “‘Así pues, el día quince del mes séptimo, cuando hayáis recogido los frutos de la tierra, celebraréis la fiesta de Yahvé durante siete días. El primer día será un descanso solemne, y el octavo día será un descanso solemne.
“[Returning to my instructions about] the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters, you must celebrate this festival after you have harvested all the crops. On the first day and on the last day of that festival, you must rest completely.
40 El primer día tomarás los frutos de los árboles majestuosos, las ramas de las palmeras, las ramas de los árboles frondosos y los sauces del arroyo; y te alegrarás ante Yahvé, tu Dios, durante siete días.
But on the first day, you are permitted to pick fruit from trees. Cut palm fronds/branches and other leafy branches from trees or from bushes that grow by the streams, [and make shelters/huts to live in for that week]. Then rejoice in my presence for those seven days.
41 Lo celebraréis como fiesta para Yahvé durante siete días al año. Es un estatuto para siempre a lo largo de vuestras generaciones. La celebraréis en el séptimo mes.
You must celebrate this festival for seven days every year. You must never stop obeying my commands/instructions for that festival. You must celebrate it in September.
42 Viviréis en refugios temporales durante siete días. Todos los nativos de Israel habitarán en refugios temporales,
During the seven days of that festival, all of you people who have been Israelis your entire lives must live in shelters/huts.
43 para que vuestras generaciones sepan que yo hice habitar a los hijos de Israel en refugios temporales cuando los saqué de la tierra de Egipto. Yo soy Yahvé, vuestro Dios”.
That will remind your descendants that their ancestors lived in shelters [for many years] after I rescued them from Egypt. [Do not forget that] I, Yahweh your God, [am the one who is commanding this].”
44 Así pues, Moisés declaró a los hijos de Israel las fiestas señaladas por Yahvé.
So Moses/I gave to the Israeli people all those instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh [wanted them to celebrate] each year.
