Levítico 27
1 Yavé habló a Moisés:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
2 Habla a los hijos de Israel: Cuando alguno haga un voto especial a Yavé, con motivo del rescate de personas, lo valorarás así:
“Tell the Israeli people [that this is what I am saying to them]: If anyone solemnly promises to dedicate another person to [work solely] for me, the person who is dedicated to me is allowed to be free from having to do that by someone paying [to the priest] a fixed amount of money. The money that is given must be calculated by comparing it with the official pieces of silver in the Sacred Tent.
3 Al hombre entre 20 y 60 años lo valorarás en 550 gramos de plata, según el valor que tiene en el Santuario.
[These are the amounts that must be paid]: 50 pieces of silver for men who are between 20 and 60 years old,
4 Si es mujer, la valorarás en 330 gramos de plata.
30 pieces of silver for adult women [who are between 20 and 60 years old],
5 De cinco a 20 años, tu valoración para el varón será de 220 gramos de plata, y para la mujer, de 110 gramos de plata.
20 pieces of silver for young men who are between five and 20 years old, ten pieces of silver for young women who are between five and 20 years old,
6 Si es de un mes hasta cinco años, tu valoración será de 55 gramos de plata para el varón, y para la mujer, de 33 gramos de plata.
five pieces of silver for boys who are between one month and five years old, three pieces of silver for girls who are between one month and five years old,
7 Si es de 60 años o más, tu valoración por el varón será de 165 gramos de plata, y por la mujer, de 110 gramos de plata.
15 pieces of silver for men who are more than 60 years old, ten pieces of silver for women who are more than 60 years old.
8 Pero si [la persona] es demasiado pobre para su valoración, entonces comparecerá ante el sacerdote, quien lo valorará según los recursos del que hizo el voto. Así el sacerdote lo tasará.
‘If anyone who has made such a solemn promise is very poor and unable to pay, to free that person from doing what he had promised, he must take that person to the priest. The priest will set the price [for freeing him] to be what the person who made that solemn promise is able to pay.
9 Si es ganado apto para el sacrificio a Yavé, todo lo que de él se dé a Yavé será sagrado.
‘If someone solemnly promises to give an animal that is acceptable to be an offering to me, that animal becomes sacred [and belongs to me].
10 No será cambiado ni sustituido uno bueno por uno malo, ni uno malo por uno bueno. Si se sustituye un animal por otro, éste y el sustituido serán sagrados.
The person who promised to give it must not give another animal instead of the one that he promised; he must not substitute a bad animal for a good one or even a better one than the one offered. If he would substitute one animal for the other, both animals would belong to me.
11 Si se trata de un animal impuro, de la clase que no se debe presentar como sacrificio ante Yavé, entonces el animal será puesto delante del sacerdote,
If the animal that he wishes to dedicate to me is a kind that is unacceptable to be an offering to me, he must take that animal to the priest.
12 y el sacerdote lo valorará, sea bueno o sea malo. Conforme a la valoración del sacerdote, así será.
The priest will then decide what its value is, according to the animal’s good and bad points. Whatever value the priests sets will be the value of the animal, [and that is the price that the priest must pay for the animal].
13 Si uno quiere rescatarlo, añadirá un quinto a su valoración.
If the man who gave the animal later decides that he wants to buy it back, he must pay [to the priest] that price plus an additional 20 percent.
14 Cuando alguno haga consagrar su casa para dedicarla a Yavé, el sacerdote la valorará, tanto en lo bueno como en lo malo. Según el sacerdote la valore, así quedará.
‘[Similarly], if someone dedicates his house to be a sacred gift to belong to me, the priest will decide how much it is worth, which will depend on whether the house is in good condition. Whatever the priest says that it is worth, that will be its value [and that is the price that the priest must pay for it].
15 Pero si el que consagró su casa quiere rescatarla, añadirá la quinta parte de su valor y será suya.
If the man who dedicated his house to me later wants to buy it back, he must pay that price plus an additional 20 percent, and then the house will belong to him again.
16 Si alguno consagra a Yavé una parte del campo de su propiedad, tu valoración será conforme a la semilla requerida para la siembra. 220 litros de semilla de cebada se valorarán en 550 gramos de plata.
‘If someone dedicates to me some of the property that belongs to him and his family, its value will be determined by the number of bushels of seed that will be needed to plant seeds on that land: Its value will be ten pieces of silver for each bushel of seed.
17 Si consagra su campo desde el año del jubileo, tu valoración se mantendrá.
If he dedicates the land during the Year of Celebration, its full value will be that amount.
18 Pero si consagra su campo después del jubileo, entonces el sacerdote le calculará el dinero según los años que queden hasta el año del otro jubileo, y se rebajará de tu valoración.
But if he dedicates the field after the Year of Celebration, the priest will count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration, and if there are not many years that remain, the price will be much lower [than the full price].
19 Si el que consagró su campo quiere rescatarlo, añadirá una quinta parte de su valor, y será suyo.
If the person who dedicated the field later wants to buy it back, he must pay [to the priest] the price that the priest says it is worth, plus an added one-fifth, and then the field will belong to that man again.
20 Pero si no rescata el campo, o el campo se vende a otro hombre, ya no lo podrá rescatar.
However, if he does not buy it back, or if it has been sold (OR, the priest has sold it) to someone else, that person will never be permitted to buy it back again.
21 Cuando ese campo quede libre en el jubileo, será consagrado para Yavé. Será propiedad del sacerdote como un campo separado.
In the Year of Celebration, it will become sacred again, and it will be given to the priest.
22 Si alguno consagra a Yavé un campo comprado, que no era campo de su herencia,
‘If someone dedicates to me some land that he has bought, land which is not part of the land that his family has always owned,
23 el sacerdote calculará con él la suma de su valoración hasta el año del jubileo y ese día le dará su valoración como cosa consagrada a Yavé.
the priest will count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration to determine how much it is worth, and the man must pay that amount to the priest on that day, [and then that land will belong to that man again].
24 El año del jubileo, el campo volverá a aquél de quien se compró, al que tiene la propiedad de la tierra.
But in the Year of Celebration, the land will again be owned by the person from whom he bought it, the person whose family had always owned that land.
25 Toda valoración se hará conforme al valor en gramos de plata del Santuario, [la medida] 11 gramos de plata.
All the silver that is paid must be compared with the official pieces of silver in the Sacred Tent.
26 El primerizo de los animales, que por su primogenitura pertenece a Yavé, sea becerro o cordero, nadie lo consagrará. Es de Yavé.
‘No one is permitted to dedicate to me the firstborn of any cow or sheep, because the firstborn already belongs to me [DOU].
27 Pero si es animal impuro, entonces será rescatado según su valoración, y añadirá a ella una quinta parte. Si no es rescatado, se venderá según su valoración.
If someone gives to me a kind of animal that is not acceptable to me, that person may later buy it back by paying what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent of its value. If he does not buy it back, it must be sold (OR, the priest must sell it) for its standard price.
28 No obstante, ninguna cosa de su propiedad que alguno consagre a Yavé podrá venderse o redimirse, sea hombre, animal o campo. Todo lo consagrado será cosa santísima a Yavé.
‘However, no slave or animal or family land that someone owns can be sold or bought back after it has been dedicated to me [and no price has been paid for it]. That kind of gift belongs to me permanently/forever.
29 Ninguna persona que fue separada para Yavé podrá ser rescatada. Ciertamente morirá.
‘No person who has [done something that I consider to be very wicked] is permitted to be freed [from being punished]; that person must surely be executed.
30 Todo el diezmo de la tierra, tanto de la semilla de la tierra como del suelo y del fruto de los árboles, es de Yavé. Está consagrado a Yavé.
‘One tenth of all the crops and grain or fruit that is produced on anyone’s land is sacred and belongs to me.
31 Si alguno quiere rescatar algo de su diezmo, le añadirá la quinta parte de su valor.
If anyone wants to buy back any of that tenth, he must pay [to the priest] what it is worth plus an additional 20 percent.
32 Todo diezmo de ganado vacuno o del rebaño, de todo lo que pasa bajo la vara, será consagrado a Yavé.
One of every ten domestic animals belongs to me. When a shepherd counts his animals [MTY] [to decide which ones he will give to me], he must mark every tenth one as belonging to me.
33 No se observará si es bueno o malo. No se cambiará, y si de alguna manera se cambia, tanto el animal que se cambió como el otro serán sagrados. No podrán redimirse.
When he does that, he must not pick out the good ones for himself or leave the bad ones, or substitute bad ones for good ones. If he substitutes one animal for another, both animals will belong to me, and he will not be permitted to buy them back (OR, the shepherd cannot buy them back).’”
34 Estos son los Mandamientos que Yavé ordenó a Moisés para los hijos de Israel en la Montaña Sinaí.
Those are the commands that Yahweh gave to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain [to tell to the people].
