Levítico 23
1 Yavé habló a Moisés:
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
2 Habla a los hijos de Israel: Estas son las fiestas solemnes de Yavé, en las cuales proclamarán santas convocaciones.
“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 será reposo, sábado, santa convocación. Ningún trabajo harán. Es sábado a Yavé dondequiera que vivan.
“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 solemnes de Yavé, las santas convocaciones que proclamarán en los tiempos señalados para ellas.
“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 Al llegar la noche del día 14 del primer mes se celebra la Pascua de Yavé.
[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 día 15 de ese mes es la fiesta de los Panes sin Levadura a Yavé. Siete días comerán pan 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 tendrán santa convocación. No harán trabajo servil alguno.
On the first day of that festival, you all must stop your regular work and you must gather together [to worship me].
8 Durante siete días ofrecerán ante Yavé ofrenda quemada. El séptimo día habrá santa convocación. Ningún trabajo servil harán en él.
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 Yavé habló a Moisés:
Yahweh also told Moses/me
10 Habla a los hijos de Israel: Cuando entren en la tierra que Yo les doy, y recojan la cosecha, llevarán al sacerdote un manojo como primicia de su 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 mecerá el manojo delante de Yavé para que sean aceptados. El sacerdote lo mecerá el día siguiente al sábado.
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 cuando ofrezcan el manojo ofrecerán un cordero añal sin defecto en holocausto a Yavé.
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 vegetal será de 4,4 litros de flor de harina mezclada con aceite, como ofrenda quemada de olor que apacigua para Yavé, y su libación será de 0,9 litros de vino.
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 comerán pan, ni grano tostado, ni espiga fresca hasta este mismo día, hasta cuando lleven la ofrenda a su ʼElohim. Es estatuto perpetuo para sus generaciones dondequiera que vivan.
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 Desde el día siguiente al sábado, día cuando presentaron el manojo para la ofrenda mecida, contarán siete semanas completas,
“Seven weeks after the priest offers that grain to me,
16 hasta el día siguiente al séptimo sábado contarán 50 días. Entonces presentarán una nueva ofrenda vegetal a Yavé.
on the next/50th day after he offers it, [each family] must bring to me an offering from the new crop of grain.
17 Desde los lugares donde vivan llevarán dos panes de 4,4 litros de flor de harina horneados con levadura como ofrenda mecida, como primicias a Yavé.
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 ofrecerán siete corderos de un año sin defecto, un becerro de la manada vacuna y dos carneros. Serán holocausto a Yavé, con su ofrenda vegetal y sus libaciones, ofrenda quemada de olor que apacigua a Yavé.
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 También ofrecerán un macho cabrío como sacrificio por el pecado y dos corderos añales 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 presentará como ofrenda mecida ante Yavé junto con el pan de las primicias y los dos corderos. Serán cosa consagrada a Yavé 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 proclamarán una santa convocación y no harán ningún trabajo servil. Es estatuto perpetuo para sus generaciones dondequiera que vivan.
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 recojan la cosecha de su tierra, no cosecharán hasta el último rincón de tu campo, ni espigarán su tierra ya cosechada. La dejarás para el pobre y para el extranjero. Yo, Yavé su ʼElohim.
“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 Yavé habló a Moisés:
Yahweh also told Moses/me
24 Habla a los hijos de Israel: El primer día del mes séptimo tendrán un reposo: una conmemoración con sonido de trompetas, una santa convocación.
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 Ningún trabajo servil harán, y presentarán una ofrenda quemada a Yavé.
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 Yavé habló a Moisés:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
27 Ciertamente el día décimo de ese mes séptimo será el día del sacrificio que apacigua. Tendrán una santa convocación, afligirán sus almas y ofrecerán ofrenda quemada a Yavé.
“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 Ningún trabajo harán ese mismo día, porque es el día del sacrificio que apacigua, para ofrecer sacrificio que apacigua por ustedes delante de Yavé su ʼElohim.
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 Toda persona que no se aflija ese mismo día será cortada de su pueblo.
You must expel from your group anyone who does not (fast/abstain from eating food) on that day.
30 Toda persona que haga cualquier trabajo ese día, la exterminaré de su pueblo.
I will get rid of anyone who does any kind of work on that day.
31 Ningún trabajo harán. Es estatuto perpetuo para sus generaciones dondequiera que vivan.
You must not work at all! You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.
32 Será un sábado de completo reposo para ustedes. Afligirán sus almas el noveno día del mes, al llegar la noche. Desde cuando llega la noche hasta cuando llega la otra noche guardarán su 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 Yavé habló a Moisés:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
34 Habla a los hijos de Israel: El día 15 de este mes séptimo es la fiesta de Las Cabañas a Yavé durante siete días.
“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 habrá santa convocación. No harán algún trabajo servil.
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 Siete días ofrecerán una ofrenda quemada a Yavé. En el octavo día tendrán santa convocación y presentarán una ofrenda quemada a Yavé. Es santa convocación. No harán alguna obra servil.
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 de Yavé, las santas convocaciones que harán para presentar ofrenda quemada a Yavé, holocausto, ofrenda vegetal, sacrificios y libaciones, cada día lo que corresponda al 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 Yavé, de sus ofrendas, de todas sus ofrendas votivas y todas sus ofrendas voluntarias que dan a Yavé.
(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 Pero el día 15 de este mes séptimo, cuando recojan el fruto de la tierra, celebrarán una fiesta a Yavé durante siete días. El primer día habrá un reposo, y el octavo día también habrá un reposo.
“[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 tomarán para ustedes el fruto de árboles hermosos, ramas de palmeras y de árboles frondosos y sauces del arroyo. Durante siete días se regocijarán en la Presencia de Yavé su ʼElohim.
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 Celebrarán fiesta a Yavé durante siete días cada año. Es estatuto perpetuo para sus generaciones. La celebrarán el mes séptimo.
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 Siete días vivirán en cabañas. Todos los nativos israelitas vivirán en cabañas,
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 sus generaciones venideras sepan que en cabañas Yo ordené vivir a los hijos de Israel cuando los saqué de la tierra de Egipto. Yo, Yavé su ʼElohim.
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 Moisés promulgó las fiestas solemnes de Yavé a los hijos de Israel.
So Moses/I gave to the Israeli people all those instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh [wanted them to celebrate] each year.
