Deuteronomio 16

1 Guardarás el mes de los nuevos frutos y harás pascua a Jehová tu Dios, porque en el mes de los nuevos frutos te sacó Jehová tu Dios de Egipto de noche.

“[Each year] honor Yahweh our God by celebrating the Passover [Festival] in the month of Abib [in early spring]. It was on a night in that month that Yahweh rescued your ancestors from Egypt.

2 Y sacrificarás pascua a Jehová tu Dios de ovejas y de vacas, en el lugar que Jehová escogiere para hacer habitar su nombre en él.

[In order to celebrate that festival], go to the place that Yahweh will choose [for you to worship him], and offer [there one young animal] from your cattle or your sheep to be the Passover sacrifice, to honor Yahweh [MTY].

3 No comerás con ella leudo; siete días comerás con ella panes por leudar, pan de aflicción, porque apriesa saliste de tierra de Egipto: para que te acuerdes del día en que saliste de la tierra de Egipto, todos los días de tu vida.

[When you eat the Passover meal], the bread that you eat must not have yeast in it. You must eat this kind of bread, which will be called the bread of suffering/misery, for seven days. This is to help you to remember all during the time that you are alive that when your ancestors left Egypt, [where they were suffering because they were slaves], they left very quickly. [They did not put in yeast and wait for the dough to swell up].

4 Y no parecerá levadura en ti, en todo tu término por siete días: y no quedará de la carne que matares a la tarde del primer día hasta la mañana.

[During that festival], you must not have any yeast in any house in your land for seven days. Furthermore, the meat [of the animals] that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day [of the Passover Festival must be eaten during that night]; do not allow any of it to remain until the next day.

5 No podrás sacrificar la pascua en ninguna de tus ciudades, que Jehová tu Dios te da,

“To honor Yahweh our God, you must offer the Passover sacrifice only at the place that he chooses for you [to worship him]; do not offer that sacrifice in any other town in the land that Yahweh is giving to you. Offer that sacrifice when the sun is setting, at the same time of day that your ancestors [started to] leave Egypt.

6 Sino en el lugar que Jehová tu Dios escogiere, para hacer habitar su nombre en él, sacrificarás la pascua a la tarde a puesta del sol, al tiempo que saliste de Egipto.

7 Y asarás, y comerás en el lugar que Jehová tu Dios escogiere, y volverás por la mañana y tornarte has a tu morada.

Boil [the meat] and eat it at the place [of worship] that Yahweh our God chooses. The next morning, you may return to your tents.

8 Seis días comerás panes cenceños, y el séptimo día será solemnidad a Jehová tu Dios, no harás obra.

Each day for six days the bread that you eat must have no yeast in it. On the seventh day, you must all gather to worship Yahweh our God. [It will be a day of rest]; you must not do any work on that day.”

9 Siete semanas te contarás: desde que comenzare la hoz en las mieses comenzarás a contar las siete semanas,

“[Each year], from the day that you start to harvest your grain, count seven weeks.

10 Y harás la solemnidad de las semanas a Jehová tu Dios: de la suficiencia voluntaria de tu mano será lo que dieres, según Jehová tu Dios te hubiere bendecido.

Then, to honor Yahweh our God, celebrate the Harvest Festival. Do that by bringing to him an offering [of grain]. Yahweh has blessed you [by causing it to grow in your fields during that year]. If you had a big harvest, bring a big offering. If you had a small harvest, bring a small offering.

11 Y alegrarte has delante de Jehová tu Dios, tú, y tu hijo, y tu hija, y tu siervo y tu sierva, y el Levita que estuviere dentro de tus puertas, y el extranjero, y el huérfano, y la viuda, que estuvieren en medio de ti, en el lugar que Jehová tu Dios escogiere para hacer habitar su nombre en él.

[Each married couple] should be joyful in the presence of Yahweh. Their children, their servants, the descendants of Levi [who are in that town], and the foreigners, orphans, and widows [who are living among you], should also be joyful. Bring those offerings to the place of worship that Yahweh will choose.

12 Y acordarte has que fuiste siervo en Egipto; por tanto guardarás, y harás estos estatutos.

[“When you celebrate these festivals] by obeying these commands, remember that your ancestors were previously slaves in Egypt.”

13 La solemnidad de las cabañas harás siete días, cuando hubieres hecho la cosecha de tu era y de tu lagar.

“[Each year], after you have threshed all your grain and pressed [the juice from] all your grapes, you must celebrate the Festival of [Living in Temporary] Shelters for seven days.

14 Y alegrarte has en tu solemnidad, tú y tu hijo, y tu hija, y tu siervo, y tu sierva, y el Levita, y el extranjero, y el huérfano, y la viuda que están dentro de tus puertas.

[Each married couple] along with their children, their servants, the descendants of Levi [who are in that town], and the foreigners, orphans, and widows [who are living among you], should be joyful in the presence of Yahweh.

15 Siete días celebrarás solemnidad a Jehová tu Dios en el lugar que Jehová escogiere, porque te habrá bendecido Jehová tu Dios en todos tus frutos, y en toda obra de tus manos, y serás ciertamente alegre.

Honor Yahweh our God by celebrating this festival for seven days in the place that Yahweh chooses [for you to worship him]. You should all be joyful, because Yahweh will have blessed your harvest and all the other work that you have done.

16 Tres veces cada un año parecerá todo varón tuyo delante de Jehová tu Dios en el lugar que él escogiere; en la solemnidad de los panes cenceños, y en la solemnidad de las semanas, y en la solemnidad de las cabañas; y no parecerá vacío delante de Jehová:

“So, each year all of you Israeli men must gather [with your families] to worship Yahweh our God at the place that he will choose, [to celebrate three festivals]: The Passover Festival, the Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters. Each of you men must bring [LIT] an offering [for Yahweh to these festivals]

17 Cada uno con el don de su mano, conforme a la bendición de Jehová tu Dios, que te hubiere dado.

in proportion to the blessings that Yahweh has given you [during that year].”

18 Jueces y alcaldes te pondrás en todas tus puertas que Jehová tu Dios te dará en tus tribus, los cuales juzgarán el pueblo con juicio de justicia.

“Appoint judges and other officials throughout your tribes, in all the towns [in the land] that Yahweh our God is giving to you. They must judge people fairly/justly.

19 No tuerzas el derecho: No aceptes persona, ni tomes cohecho, porque el cohecho ciega los ojos de los sabios, y pervierte las palabras de los justos.

They must not judge unjustly. They must not favor one person more than another. The judges must not accept bribes, because if a judge accepts a bribe, even if he is wise and honest, it will be very difficult for him to judge fairly [IDM]; [he will do what the person who gave him the bribe wants him to do and declare that] the righteous/innocent people [must be punished].

20 La justicia la justicia seguirás, porque vivas, y heredes la tierra, que Jehová tu Dios te da.

You must be completely fair and just [DOU], in order that you will enter and occupy the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you.”

21 No te plantarás bosque de ningún árbol cerca del altar de Jehová tu Dios, que te harás.

“When you make an altar to worship Yahweh our God, do not put next to it any wooden statue [that represents] the goddess Asherah.

22 Ni te levantarás estatua, lo cual aborrece Jehová tu Dios.

And do not set up any [stone] pillar [to worship any idol, because] Yahweh hates them.”