Números 19
1 Yavé habló a Moisés y a Aarón:
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
2 Ésta es la ordenanza de la Ley que Yavé ordenó: Dí a los hijos de Israel que te traigan una vaca bermeja, perfecta, en la cual no haya defecto, sobre la cual no se haya puesto yugo.
This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put:
3 La darán al sacerdote Eleazar, quien la sacará fuera del campamento, y [uno] la degollará en presencia de él.
Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him.
4 Luego el sacerdote Eleazar tomará de su sangre con su dedo, y con esa sangre rociará siete veces hacia la parte delantera del Tabernáculo de Reunión.
Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting:
5 Después [uno] quemará la vaca delante de él. Se quemará la piel, la carne, la sangre y el estiércol.
And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned:
6 El sacerdote tomará un palo de cedro, un hisopo y escarlata, y los echará en medio de la hoguera de la vaca.
Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.
7 El sacerdote lavará sus vestiduras con agua, lavará su cuerpo en agua y después entrará en el campamento, pero el sacerdote quedará impuro hasta llegar la noche.
And the priest, after washing his clothing and bathing his body in water, may come back to the tent-circle, and will be unclean till evening.
8 También el que la quemó lavará su ropa y su cuerpo con agua, y será impuro hasta llegar la noche.
And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.
9 Luego, un hombre purificado recogerá las cenizas de la vaca y las pondrá en un lugar limpio fuera del campamento. La congregación de los hijos de Israel las guardará para [preparar] el agua que limpia de impureza.
Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.
10 El que haya recogido las cenizas de la vaca lavará sus ropas y quedará impuro hasta llegar la noche. Esto será estatuto perpetuo para los hijos de Israel y el extranjero que peregrina entre ellos.
And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to have his clothing washed with water and be unclean till evening: this is to be a law for ever, for the children of Israel as well as for the man from another country who is living among them.
11 El que toque el cadáver de una persona será impuro siete días.
Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:
12 Al tercer día se purificará con esa agua, y al séptimo día quedará limpio. Pero si al tercer día no se purifica, no quedará limpio al séptimo día.
On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.
13 Todo el que toque el cadáver de una persona, y no se purifique, contamina el Tabernáculo de Yavé. Esta persona será cortada de Israel, por cuanto el agua para la impureza no fue rociada sobre él. Será impuro y su impureza estará sobre él.
Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged.
14 Esta es la Ley para cuando un hombre muera en una tienda: Todo el que entre en la tienda y todo el que esté en ella, estará impuro siete días.
This is the law when death comes to a man in his tent: everyone who comes into the tent, and everyone who is in the tent, will be unclean for seven days.
15 Toda vasija abierta que no tenga la tapa bien ajustada quedará impura.
And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.
16 Cualquiera que toque un muerto por espada en el campo, o cualquier muerto, osamenta o sepulcro, quedará impuro siete días.
And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.
17 Para ese impuro se tomará ceniza de la vaca quemada en el sacrificio que apacigua, y se echará agua corriente sobre ella en una vasija.
And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel:
18 Luego, un hombre purificado tomará una rama de hisopo y la mojará en el agua. Rociará la tienda, todos los utensilios y a las personas que estén allí junto con aquel que haya tocado la osamenta, el cadáver o el sepulcro.
And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched.
19 El tercero y el séptimo día, el que está purificado rociará al impuro. Cuando lo haya purificado el séptimo día, lavará sus ropas y se lavará en agua. Al llegar la noche quedará purificado.
Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening.
20 Pero el que esté impuro y no se purifique, esa persona será cortada de en medio de la congregación, porque contaminó el Santuario de Yavé. El agua para la impureza no se roció sobre él, por tanto es impuro.
But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.
21 Les será estatuto perpetuo. El que roció el agua para la purificación lavará sus ropas, y el que sacó el agua para la purificación será impura hasta llegar la noche.
This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.
22 Todo lo que el impuro toque será impuro, y la persona que lo toque quedará impuro hasta llegar la noche.
Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.
