Levítico 16
1 Después de la muerte de los dos hijos de Aarón, cuando se presentaron delante de Yavé y murieron, Yavé habló a Moisés.
After the two sons of Aaron died because they burned incense to Yahweh [in a manner that was contrary to what Yahweh commanded], Yahweh spoke to Moses/me.
2 Dí a tu hermano Aarón que no en todo tiempo entre en el Santuario detrás del velo, delante del Propiciatorio que está sobre el Arca, no sea que muera, porque Yo me manifiesto en la nube sobre el Propiciatorio.
He said to him/me, “Warn your [older] brother Aaron that he must not enter the Very Holy Place inside the curtain that is in the Sacred Tent whenever he wants to, because the cover of the sacred chest is there. That is the place where the priest (makes atonement for/requests me to forgive) sins. I am present in the cloud that is over the cover of the sacred chest. If Aaron goes in that room when it is not the proper time, he will die!
3 Aarón entrará en el Santuario con un becerro para el sacrificio por el pecado y un carnero para el holocausto.
“When Aaron enters the Sacred Tent area, he must bring a bull that [will be killed] to become an offering/sacrifice for sins, and a ram [to be killed] to be an offering that will be completely burned [on the altar].
4 Vestirá una túnica sagrada de lino y cubrirá su cuerpo con calzoncillos de lino. Estará atado con un cinturón de lino y usará un turbante de lino. Estas son vestiduras sagradas. Lavará su cuerpo con agua y después se vestirá con ellas.
Then he must bathe his whole body, and put on the linen underwear/undershorts and the linen gown. He must tie the linen sash/waistbands around his waist and wrap the turban around his head. Those are his sacred garments.
5 Tomará dos machos cabríos de la congregación de los hijos de Israel para el sacrificio por el pecado y un carnero para el holocausto.
The Israeli people must then bring to him two male goats [to be killed] as an offering/sacrifice for sin, and a ram to be [killed and] burned completely [on the altar].
6 Aarón mandará traer el becerro del sacrificio que apacigua y ofrecerá el sacrificio que apacigua por él mismo y por su casa.
“Aaron must offer the bull [to me] to be a sacrifice in order that (I will forgive his sins and the sins of his family/his sins and the sins of his family will be forgiven).
7 Después tomará los dos machos cabríos y los presentará delante de Yavé en la entrada del Tabernáculo de Reunión.
Then he must bring the two male goats to me at the entrance to the Sacred Tent.
8 Aarón echará suertes sobre los dos machos cabríos, una suerte por Yavé y la otra suerte por Azazel.
He must (cast lots/throw down stones that have been marked) to determine which goat will be [sacrificed] to me, and which will be the goat that will be set free.
9 Luego Aarón presentará el macho cabrío sobre el cual cayó la suerte por Yavé y lo ofrecerá en sacrificio por el pecado.
Aaron must bring to me the goat that was chosen to be sacrificed. It will be an offering for the people’s sins.
10 Pero el macho cabrío sobre el cual cayó la suerte por Azazel será presentado vivo ante Yavé para hacer ofrenda que apacigua sobre él, a fin de enviarlo a Azazel, al desierto.
Aaron must also bring to me the other goat, but it is not to be killed. It will be freed while it is still alive. As a result of Aaron sending it into the desert, the people’s sins will be forgiven.
11 Entonces Aarón traerá su becerro destinado al sacrificio que apacigua, lo degollará como sacrificio por el pecado, y hará sacrificio que apacigua por él mismo y por su casa.
“Then Aaron must bring the young bull to me, to be an offering/sacrifice for himself and for his family. He must slaughter that bull to be an offering for their sins, [and he must drain the blood into a basin].
12 Después tomará un incensario lleno de brasas de fuego de sobre el altar que está delante de Yavé, llenará sus puños de incienso aromático molido y lo llevará detrás del velo.
Then he must take some burning coals from the [bronze] altar and put them in the incense burner. Then he must fill his hands with fragrant finely-ground incense. Then he must take the incense and the incense burner inside the curtain into the Very Holy Place [of the Sacred Tent].
13 Pondrá el incienso sobre el fuego en la Presencia de Yavé para que el humo del incienso cubra el Propiciatorio que está sobre el Testimonio para que no muera.
There he must put the incense on the burning coals, with the result that a cloud of burning incense will rise up over the lid of the sacred chest. If he obeys these instructions, he will not die [like Korah’s two sons did because of offering incense incorrectly] (OR, [because of being in God’s presence]).
14 Luego tomará [parte] de la sangre del becerro y rociará con su dedo sobre el Propiciatorio, hacia el oriente. Con esa sangre rociará siete veces con su dedo delante del Propiciatorio.
Then he must dip his finger into [the basin] and sprinkle some blood on the lid of the sacred chest, and also sprinkle some blood seven times against the front of the chest.
15 Después degollará el macho cabrío del sacrificio por el pecado que corresponde al pueblo, y meterá su sangre detrás del velo. Hará con su sangre como hizo con la sangre del becerro: rociará sobre el Propiciatorio y delante del Propiciatorio.
[“Aaron must then go outside the Sacred Tent] and slaughter the goat to be an offering for the sins of the people. Then he must bring its blood into the Very Holy Place behind the curtain. There he must sprinkle [some of] that blood on the lid of the sacred chest and against the front of the chest, like he did with the bull’s blood.
16 Así hará sacrificio que apacigua por el Santuario a causa de las impurezas de los hijos de Israel y de sus transgresiones, por todos sus pecados. Así hará también por el Tabernáculo de Reunión que está con ellos en medio de sus impurezas.
By doing that, he will purify the Very Holy Place. And he must sprinkle more of the blood on the Sacred Tent, because the tent is in the midst of the camp of the Israeli people who have become unacceptable to me [because of their sins].
17 Nadie permanecerá en el Tabernáculo de Reunión desde cuando él entre en el Santuario para hacer sacrificio que apacigua hasta cuando haga el sacrificio que apacigua por él mismo, por su casa y por toda la congregación de Israel, y salga.
When Aaron goes into the Very Holy Place [in the Sacred Tent] to purify it, no one else is permitted to enter [the other part of] the Sacred Tent. Only after Aaron has performed rituals to enable me to forgive him and his family, and all the Israeli people, is any priest permitted to enter the Sacred Tent.
18 Luego saldrá hacia el altar que está ante Yavé y hará sacrificio que apacigua por él. Tomará parte de la sangre del becerro y de la sangre del macho cabrío y la aplicará sobre los cuernos del altar, por todos lados.
“Then Aaron must go outside the tent to purify my altar. He must do this by smearing some of the blood from the bull and some of the blood from the goat on each of the projections at the corners of the altar.
19 Luego rociará sobre éste siete veces parte de la sangre con su dedo, y así lo purificará y lo santificará de las impurezas de los hijos de Israel.
Then Aaron must dip his finger into the [basin of] blood and sprinkle some of the blood over the altar seven times. By doing that, he will cleanse it from being unholy [because of the sins] of the Israeli people, and it will become holy again.
20 Cuando acabe de hacer el sacrificio que apacigua por el Santuario, el Tabernáculo de Reunión y el altar, ordenará que traigan el macho cabrío vivo.
“When Aaron has finished purifying the Very Holy Place [inside the Sacred Tent] and all of the Sacred Tent and the altar, he must bring the goat that was chosen to be set free.
21 Aarón pondrá sus dos manos sobre la cabeza del macho cabrío vivo y confesará sobre él todas las iniquidades de los hijos de Israel, todas sus transgresiones y todos sus pecados. Así los depositará sobre la cabeza del macho cabrío y lo enviará al desierto por medio de un hombre destinado para esto.
He must put both of his hands on the head of the goat and confess all the sins [DOU] of the Israeli people. By doing that, he will put [the guilt of] their sins on the head of the goat. Then he must give the goat to a man who is chosen, and that man will send the goat out into the desert.
22 El macho cabrío cargará sobre él todas las iniquidades de ellos hacia una tierra solitaria, y se dejará ir por el desierto.
[It is as though] the goat will carry away into the desert [the guilt for] the sins of all the people.
23 Después Aarón entrará en el Tabernáculo de Reunión, se quitará las ropas de lino que se puso para entrar en el Santuario y las dejará allí.
“When Aaron approaches the Sacred Tent, he must take off the linen clothes that he wore when he [previously] entered the Very Holy Place, and he must leave those clothes there.
24 Luego lavará su cuerpo con agua en un lugar santo y vestirá sus ropas. Saldrá y ofrecerá su holocausto y el holocausto del pueblo. Hará sacrificio que apacigua por él mismo y por el pueblo,
Then he must bathe in a sacred place, put on his regular/ordinary clothes, and sacrifice the animals that will be burned completely on the altar for his own sins and for the sins of the Israeli people. By doing that he will enable me to forgive him and them.
25 y dejará consumir sobre el altar la grasa del sacrificio por el pecado.
He must also burn on the altar all the fat of the bull and the goat that were sacrificed.
26 Con respecto al que llevó el macho cabrío a Azazel, lavará sus ropas y su cuerpo con agua, tras lo cual podrá entrar en el campamento.
“The man who was chosen to send the other goat into the desert and free it there must afterwards wash his clothes and bathe. Then he may return to the camp.
27 Pero el sacrificio del becerro y del macho cabrío por el pecado, cuya sangre se introdujo para hacer sacrificio que apacigua en el Lugar Santo, serán llevados fuera del campamento y quemados al fuego: sus cueros, su carne y su estiércol.
The carcasses of the bull and the goat that were slaughtered to be an offering/sacrifice for the people’s sins, whose blood was taken inside the Very Holy Place to enable Yahweh to forgive the Israeli people, must be carried outside the camp and burned. The hides/skins of the animals, the inner organs, and the dung must also be burned.
28 El que los queme lavará sus ropas y lavará su cuerpo con agua, tras lo cual podrá entrar en el campamento.
The man who burns those things must then wash his clothes and bathe before he returns to the camp.
29 Esto tendrán ustedes como estatuto perpetuo: El séptimo mes, el décimo día del mes, humillarán sus almas y no harán ninguna obra, ni el nativo ni el extranjero que vive entre ustedes.
“On (October/the month after the dry season ends), on the day that I have appointed, you all must (fast/abstain from eating food) and not do any work. This is a rule/law that will never end. It must be obeyed by you people who have been Israelis all your lives, and also by foreigners who are living among you.
30 Porque ese día se hará sacrificio que apacigua por ustedes para purificarlos, y quedarán purificados de todos sus pecados delante de Yavé.
On that day, Aaron will perform rituals to enable me to forgive you all, and then I will cleanse/free you all from [the guilt of] all your sins and you will become acceptable to me.
31 Será para ustedes un descanso sabático y se humillarán. Es un estatuto perpetuo.
That will be a day for you to rest and not do any work, like the Sabbath days, and you must (fast/abstain from eating food) all that day. That is a permanent command/law for you all to obey.
32 El sacerdote que fue ungido y consagrado para ser sacerdote en lugar de su padre, hará el sacrificio que apacigua. Vestirá las ropas de lino blanco, las ropas más sagradas.
In future years, [after Aaron has died], this ritual/ceremony to enable me to forgive you all [DOU] will be performed by the Supreme Priest who is anointed [with olive oil] and appointed to serve instead of his ancestor Aaron. He must put on the sacred clothes made of linen
33 Hará sacrificio que apacigua por el Santuario, por el Tabernáculo de Reunión y por el altar, y por los sacerdotes y por todo el pueblo de la congregación.
and offer sacrifices to purify the Very Holy Place, all of the Sacred Tent, the altar, the priests, and all the Israel people [like Aaron did].
34 Esto lo tendrán como estatuto perpetuo: Que se haga sacrificio que apacigua una vez al año por los hijos de Israel, a causa de todos sus pecados. Moisés hizo como Yavé ordenó.
This will be a permanent command/law for you to obey once every year, to enable me to forgive you Israeli people for the sins that you have committed.” Moses/I obeyed all those instructions/commands that Yahweh had given to him/me.
