Números 19
1 Yahvé habló a Moisés y a Aarón, diciendo:
Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,
2 “Este es el estatuto de la ley que Yahvé ha ordenado. Di a los hijos de Israel que te traigan una novilla roja sin mancha, en la que no haya ningún defecto, y que nunca haya sido unida.
“I am now giving to you another regulation. Tell the Israeli people to bring to you one reddish-brown cow that has no defects. It must be an animal that (has never been/no one has ever) used for plowing ground.
3 Se la daréis al sacerdote Eleazar, y él la llevará fuera del campamento, y la matará delante de él.
Give it to Eleazar, the priest. He must take it outside the camp and slaughter it [and drain the blood in a basin].
4 El sacerdote Eleazar tomará un poco de su sangre con su dedo, y rociará su sangre hacia el frente de la Tienda de Reunión siete veces.
He must dip one of his fingers in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times [on the ground] near the Sacred Tent.
5 El sacerdote quemará la novilla delante de él; quemará su piel, su carne y su sangre, con su estiércol.
Then, while Eleazar watches, the cow must be burned completely—its hide, its meat, [the rest of] its blood, and even its dung.
6 El sacerdote tomará madera de cedro, hisopo y escarlata, y lo echará en medio del incendio de la novilla.
Eliezer then must take a stick of cedar wood, a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop, and some scarlet/red yarn, and throw them into the fire where the cow is burning.
7 Luego el sacerdote lavará sus vestidos y bañará su carne con agua, y después entrará en el campamento, y el sacerdote quedará impuro hasta la noche.
“Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe. After doing that, he may return to the camp. But he will be unfit for doing any sacred work until that evening.
8 El que la queme lavará sus ropas con agua y bañará su carne con agua, y quedará impuro hasta la noche.
The man who burns the cow must also wash his clothes and bathe, and he will also be unacceptable to me until that evening.
9 “El hombre limpio recogerá las cenizas de la vaquilla y las depositará fuera del campamento, en un lugar limpio, y las guardará para la congregación de los hijos de Israel para usarlas en el agua para limpiar la impureza. Es una ofrenda por el pecado.
“Then someone who has not become unacceptable to me must gather up the ashes of the cow and put them in a (sacred place/place that is acceptable to me) outside the camp. The ashes must be kept there for the people of Israel to [use when they] mix it with water for the ritual to remove the guilt of sin.
10 El que recoja las cenizas de la vaquilla se lavará la ropa y quedará impuro hasta la noche. Será para los hijos de Israel, y para el extranjero que viva como forastero entre ellos, como un estatuto para siempre.
The man who gathers up the ashes of the cow must [also] wash his clothes, and he [also] will be unfit to do any more sacred work until that evening. That is a regulation that will never be changed. It must be obeyed by you Israeli people and by any foreigners who live among you.
11 “El que toque el cadáver de un hombre será impuro durante siete días.
“All those who touch a corpse will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
12 Al tercer día se purificará con agua, y al séptimo día quedará limpio; pero si no se purifica al tercer día, al séptimo no quedará limpio.
On the third day and on the seventh day [after touching a corpse], in order to become acceptable to me again, [they must have sprinkled on them] some of that water for removing the guilt of their sin. If they do not do that on both of those days, they will continue to be unacceptable to me.
13 El que toque a un muerto, el cuerpo de un hombre que ha muerto, y no se purifique, contamina el tabernáculo de Yahvé; y esa alma será cortada de Israel; porque el agua para la impureza no fue rociada sobre él, será impuro. Su impureza aún está sobre él.
All those who touch a corpse, and do not perform in the correct way the ritual to become acceptable to me again, defile Yahweh’s Sacred Tent. They will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people. The water to remove the guilt of sin was not sprinkled on them, so they continue to be unacceptable to me.
14 “Esta es la ley cuando un hombre muere en una tienda: todo el que entre en la tienda, y todo el que esté en ella, será impuro durante siete días.
“There is another ritual that must be performed when someone dies inside a tent. All those who were inside that tent when that person died or who enter that tent will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
15 Toda vasija abierta, que no tenga cubierta atada, es inmunda.
Any jars that are inside that tent that are not covered are not permitted to be used.
16 “Cualquiera que en el campo abierto toque a un muerto con espada, o un cadáver, o un hueso de hombre, o una tumba, quedará impuro siete días.
If someone who is out in a field touches the corpse of someone who was murdered, or who died from natural causes, or if someone touches a bone from some human or touches a grave, that person will be unacceptable to me for seven days.
17 “En cuanto a los impuros, tomarán de la ceniza de la quema de la ofrenda por el pecado, y se derramará sobre ellos agua corriente en una vasija.
“For someone like that to become acceptable to me again, some of the ashes from [the cow] that was burned must be taken and put in a jar. Then some fresh water must be poured over the ashes.
18 La persona limpia tomará hisopo, lo mojará en el agua y lo rociará sobre la tienda, sobre todos los utensilios, sobre las personas que estaban allí y sobre el que haya tocado el hueso, o el muerto, o la tumba.
Then someone who is still acceptable to me must take a stalk of [a plant named] hyssop and dip it into the water. Then that person must sprinkle some of the water on the tent where that person died, on the things that are in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent. He must also sprinkle some of that water on any person who touched a human bone or who touched a person who died, or who touched a grave.
19 El limpio rociará sobre el impuro al tercer día y al séptimo. Al séptimo día lo purificará. Lavará su ropa y se bañará con agua, y quedará limpio al anochecer.
On the third day and on the seventh day after that, the person who is acceptable to me must sprinkle some of that water on those who have become unacceptable to me. On the seventh day, the people who are performing that ritual to become acceptable to me again must wash their clothes and bathe. If they do that, on that evening they will become acceptable to me again.
20 Pero el hombre que sea impuro y no se purifique, esa persona será cortada de entre la asamblea, porque ha profanado el santuario de Yahvé. El agua para la impureza no ha sido rociada sobre él. Es impuro.
“If those who have become unacceptable to me do not become acceptable to me again by doing this, they will no longer be permitted to live among the Israeli people, because they have defiled my Sacred Tent. They did not sprinkle on themselves the water that removes the guilt of their sins, so they remain unacceptable to me.
21 Será un estatuto perpetuo para ellos. El que rocíe el agua de la impureza lavará sus ropas, y el que toque el agua de la impureza quedará impuro hasta la noche.
That is a law for the Israeli people that will never be changed. Those who sprinkle that water on themselves must then wash their clothes. And anyone who touches that water which removes guilt for sins will remain unacceptable to God until that evening.
22 “Todo lo que toque el impuro será impuro, y el alma que lo toque será impura hasta la noche”.
“If someone touches a thing or a person that has become unacceptable to me, that person will remain unacceptable to me until that evening.”
