Deuteronomio 12
1 Estos son los Estatutos y las Ordenanzas que tendrán el cuidado de practicar en la tierra que Yavé, ʼElohim de sus antepasados, les da para que la posean todos los días que vivan sobre la tierra.
These are the laws and the decisions which you are to keep with care in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to be your heritage all the days of your life on earth.
2 Destruirán completamente todos los lugares donde las naciones que ustedes heredarán sirven a sus ʼelohim sobre las montañas altas, sobre las colinas y debajo de todo árbol frondoso.
You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:
3 Derribarán sus altares, quebrarán sus piedras rituales, quemarán en fuego sus imágenes de asera, destruirán las esculturas de sus dioses y extirparán su nombre de aquel lugar.
Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.
4 No servirán a Yavé su ʼElohim de esa manera,
Do not so to the Lord your God.
5 sino buscarán el lugar que Yavé su ʼElohim escoja como su morada entre todas sus tribus para poner allí su Nombre, y allá irán.
But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;
6 Allá llevarán sus holocaustos, sacrificios, diezmos, ofrenda alzada de sus manos, ofrendas votivas, ofrendas voluntarias y los primogénitos de su manada de ganado vacuno y su rebaño.
And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;
7 Allí comerán delante de Yavé su ʼElohim y se regocijarán, ustedes y sus familias, por todo lo que emprendieron en lo cual los bendijo Yavé su ʼElohim.
There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.
8 No harán según todo lo que hacemos hoy aquí, cada uno lo que le parece bien,
You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:
9 pues hasta ahora no entraron al lugar de reposo ni a la heredad que Yavé su ʼElohim les da.
For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
10 Cuando pasen el Jordán y vivan en la tierra que Yavé su ʼElohim les da como herencia, y Él les dé reposo de todos sus enemigos de alrededor y vivan con seguridad,
But when you have gone over Jordan and are living in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as your heritage, and when he has given you rest from all those on every side who are fighting against you, and you are living there safely;
11 entonces sucederá que al lugar que Yavé su ʼElohim escoja para que more allí su Nombre, allí llevarán todo lo que yo les ordeno: sus holocaustos, sacrificios, diezmos, la ofrenda de su mano y todas sus selectas ofrendas votivas que ustedes prometan a Yavé.
Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;
12 Entonces se regocijarán delante de Yavé su ʼElohim, ustedes, sus hijos e hijas, sus esclavos y esclavas, y el levita que esté dentro de sus puertas, ya que él no tiene parte ni herencia con ustedes.
And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.
13 Guárdate de no ofrecer tus holocaustos en cualquier lugar que veas,
Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:
14 sino en el lugar que Yavé escoja en una de tus tribus. Allí ofrecerás tus holocaustos y allí harás todo lo que yo te ordeno.
But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.
15 No obstante, en todas tus poblaciones podrás sacrificar y comer carne conforme a tu deseo, según la bendición que Yavé tu ʼElohim te dio. Tanto el impuro como el purificado la podrán comer, como la de gacela y de venado.
Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.
16 Solo no comerán la sangre. La derramarán sobre la tierra como agua.
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
17 No comerás en tus poblaciones el diezmo de tu grano, de tu vino nuevo o de tu aceite, ni el primogénito de tu manada vacuna ni de tu rebaño, ni ofrendas votivas que prometiste, ni tus ofrendas voluntarias, ni la ofrenda alzada de tu mano.
In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering;
18 Sino tú, tu hijo y tu hija, tu esclavo y tu esclava, y el levita que esté en tus ciudades, las comerán delante de Yavé tu ʼElohim en el lugar que Yavé tu ʼElohim escoja. Te regocijarás delante de Yavé tu ʼElohim por todo lo que emprendió tu mano.
But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.
19 Ten cuidado de no desamparar al levita en todos tus días sobre tu tierra.
See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.
20 Cuando Yavé tu ʼElohim ensanche tu territorio como te prometió, y digas: Voy a comer carne, porque anhelas comerla, entonces podrás comer toda la que desees.
When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.
21 Si está lejos de ti el lugar que Yavé tu ʼElohim escoja para poner allí su Nombre, entonces podrás matar de tu manada de ganado vacuno y del rebaño que Yavé te dio, como te mando yo. Dentro de tus puertas podrás comer según tu anhelo.
If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.
22 La comerás como se come la gacela y el venado. Podrán comerla tanto el impuro como el purificado.
It will be your food, like the gazelle and the roe; the unclean and the clean may take of it.
23 Solamente que te mantengas firme en no comer sangre, porque la sangre es la vida. No comerás la vida con la carne.
But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.
24 No la comerás. La derramarás en la tierra como agua.
Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
25 No comerás de ella para que te vaya bien, a ti y a tus hijos, porque hiciste lo recto delante de Yavé.
Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
26 Pero tomarás tus ofrendas votivas y las cosas que consagres y las llevarás al lugar que Yavé escoja.
But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:
27 Ofrecerás tus holocaustos, la carne y la sangre sobre el altar de Yavé tu ʼElohim. La sangre de tus sacrificios será derramada sobre el altar de Yavé tu ʼElohim, y comerás la carne.
Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.
28 Ten cuidado de obedecer todas estas palabras que yo te ordeno para que te vaya bien, a ti y a tus hijos para siempre, pues hiciste lo bueno y recto delante de Yavé tu ʼElohim.
Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.
29 Cuando Yavé tu ʼElohim destruya de delante de ti a las naciones a las cuales tú vas para poseerlas, las desposeas y vivas en su tierra,
When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;
30 cuídate para que no tropieces al ir tras ellas después que sean destruidas delante de ti, de seguirlas, de indagar respecto a sus ʼelohim y digas: De la manera como sirven estas naciones a sus ʼelohim, yo también les serviré.
After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.
31 No harás así a Yavé tu ʼElohim, porque ellos hicieron sus ʼelohim, toda cosa repugnante que Yavé aborrece, pues aun queman sus hijos y sus hijas en el fuego a sus ʼelohim.
Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
32 Tendrán cuidado de hacer todo lo que yo les mando, sin agregarle ni disminuirle.
You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.
