Éxodo 32
1 Mas viendo el pueblo que Moisés tardaba de descender del monte, juntóse entonces el pueblo contra Aarón, y dijéronle: Levántate, háznos dioses que vayan delante de nosotros: porque a este Moisés, aquel varón que nos sacó de la tierra de Egipto, no sabemos que le haya acontecido.
[(Moses/I) stayed on top of the mountain a long time]. When the people realized that he/I was not returning quickly, they gathered near Aaron and said to him, “We do not know what has happened to that man Moses who brought us here out of Egypt. So quickly, make us ([an idol/a statue of a god]) who will lead us!”
2 Y Aarón les dijo: Apartád los zarcillos de oro que están en las orejas de vuestras mujeres, y de vuestros hijos, y de vuestras hijas, y traédmelos.
Aaron replied to them, “All right, [I will do that, but] tell your wives and your sons and your daughters to take off all their gold earrings and bring them to me.”
3 Entonces todo el pueblo apartó los zarcillos de oro que tenían en sus orejas, y trajéronlos a Aarón.
So the people did that. They took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
4 El cual los tomó de las manos de ellos, y formólo con buril, e hizo de ello un becerro de fundición, y dijeron: Israel, estos son tus dioses que te sacaron de tierra de Egipto.
He took all those gold earrings and melted them in a fire. He [poured the gold into a mold and] made a statue that looked like a young bull. The people saw it and said, “This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt!”
5 Y viéndolo Aarón, edificó un altar delante de él, y pregonó Aarón, y dijo: Mañana será fiesta a Jehová.
When Aaron saw [what was happening], he built an altar in front of the [statue of the] young bull. Then he announced, “Tomorrow we will have a festival to honor Yahweh!”
6 Y el día siguiente madrugaron, y ofrecieron holocaustos, y presentaron pacíficos: y el pueblo se asentó a comer y a beber, y levantáronse a regocijarse.
So the people got up early the next morning and brought animals to kill and burn as sacrifices on the altar. They also brought sacrifices to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. Then they sat down to eat and drink [wine]. Then they got up and started dancing in a very immoral way.
7 Entonces Jehová dijo a Moisés: Anda, desciende; porque tu pueblo, que sacaste de tierra de Egipto, se ha corrompido.
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Go back down from the mountain, because your people, the ones that you brought up here from Egypt, have [already] (become very depraved/wicked)!
8 Presto se han apartado del camino que yo les mandé; y se han hecho un becerro de fundición, y lo han adorado, y han sacrificado a él, y han dicho: Israel, estos son tus dioses, que te sacaron de tierra de Egipto.
They have already (left the road that I showed them/stopped obeying me)! They have made [a statue of] a young bull from melted gold. They have worshiped it and offered sacrifices to it. And they are saying, ‘This is the god of us Israeli people! This is the one who brought us up from Egypt!’”
9 Dijo más Jehová a Moisés: Yo he visto a este pueblo, que cierto es pueblo de dura cerviz.
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “I have seen that these people are very stubborn.
10 Ahora pues déjame, que se encienda mi furor en ellos, y los consuma, y a ti yo te pondré sobre gran gente.
I am very angry with them, and so I am going to get rid of them. Do not try to stop me! Then I will cause you and your descendants to become a great nation.”
11 Entonces Moisés oró a la faz de Jehová su Dios, y dijo: Oh, Jehová, ¿por qué se encenderá tu furor en tu pueblo, que tú sacaste de la tierra de Egipto con gran fortaleza, y con mano fuerte?
But Moses/I pleaded with his/my God, Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, (you should not be very angry with your people!/why are you so angry with your people [RHQ]?) These are the people whom you rescued from Egypt with very great power [MTY, DOU]!
12 ¿Por qué han de decir los Egipcios, diciendo: Con mal los sacó, para matarlos en los montes, y para raerlos de sobre la haz de la tierra? Vuélvete de la ira de tu furor, y arrepiéntete del mal de tu pueblo.
Do not [do anything that would] allow the people of Egypt to say, ‘Their god led them out from our country, but [he did that] only [because he wanted] to kill them in the mountains and get rid of them completely [RHQ]!’ Stop being so angry! (Change your mind/Do not do what you have told me that you will do)! Do not do to your people this terrible thing [that you have just said that you will do]
13 Acuérdate de Abraham, de Isaac, y de Israel tus siervos, a los cuales has jurado por ti mismo, y dícholes: Yo multiplicaré vuestra simiente como las estrellas del cielo: y daré a vuestra simiente toda esta tierra que he dicho, y tomarla han por heredad para siempre.
Think about your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You solemnly promised them, ‘I will enable you to have as many descendants as there are stars in the sky.’ You said to them, ‘I will give to your descendants all the land that I am promising to give them. It will be their land forever.’”
14 Entonces Jehová se arrepintió del mal, que dijo, que había de hacer a su pueblo.
So Yahweh changed his mind. He did not do to his people the terrible thing that he said he would do.
15 Y volvióse Moisés, y descendió del monte trayendo en su mano las dos tablas del testimonio, las tablas escritas por sus ambas partes: de una parte y de otra estaban escritas.
Moses/I turned away from God and went down the mountain, carrying in his hands the two stone slabs on which Yahweh had engraved his commandments. He had written on both sides of the slabs.
16 Y las tablas eran obra de Dios, y la escritura era escritura de Dios grabada sobre las tablas.
God [himself] had made the slabs, and he was the one who had engraved the commandments on them.
17 Y oyendo Josué la voz del pueblo que gritaba, dijo a Moisés: Alarido de pelea hay en el campo.
Joshua heard the very loud noise of the people shouting. So when he and I got near the camp, Joshua said, “There is a noise in the camp that sounds like [the noise of] a battle!”
18 Y él respondió: No es alarido de respuesta de fuertes, ni alarido de respuesta de flacos: alarido de cantar oigo yo.
But Moses/I replied, [“No], that is not the shouting that people do when they have won a victory or when they have been defeated [in a battle] What I hear is the sound of [loud] singing!”
19 Y aconteció, que como él llegó al campo, y vio el becerro, y las danzas, el furor se le encendió a Moisés, y arrojó las tablas de sus manos, y quebrólas al pie del monte.
As soon as Moses/I came close to the camp and saw the statue of the young bull and saw the people dancing, he/I became extremely angry. He/I threw the stone tablets that he/I was carrying down onto the ground, there at the base of the mountain.
20 Y tomó el becerro que habían hecho, y quemólo en el fuego, y moliólo hasta volverlo en polvos, y esparció los polvos sobre las aguas, y diólo a beber a los hijos de Israel.
Then he/I took the statue of the young bull that they had made and melted it in the fire. [When it cooled], he/I ground it into [fine] powder. Then he/I mixed the powder with water and forced the Israeli people to drink it.
21 Y dijo Moisés a Aarón: ¿Qué te ha hecho este pueblo, que has traído sobre él tan gran pecado?
Then he/I said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, with the result that you have made them commit such a terrible sin?”
22 Y respondió Aarón: No se enoje mi señor, tú conoces el pueblo, que es inclinado a mal:
Aaron replied, “Please do not be angry with me, sir. You know that these people are very determined to do evil things.
23 Porque me dijeron: Háznos dioses que vayan delante de nosotros; que a este Moisés, el varón que nos sacó de tierra de Egipto, no sabemos que le ha acontecido.
They said to me, ‘As for that man Moses, the one who brought us up here from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him. So make for us an idol that will lead us!’
24 Y yo les respondí: ¿Quién tiene oro? apartádlo. Y diéronmelo, y echélo en el fuego, y salió este becerro.
So I said to them, ‘Everyone who is wearing [gold earrings] should take them off.’ So they [took them off and] gave them to me. I threw them into the fire, and out came this statue of a young bull!”
25 Y viendo Moisés el pueblo, que estaba desnudo, (porque Aarón le había desnudado para vergüenza entre sus enemigos, )
Moses/I saw that Aaron had allowed the people to become completely out of control and to do things that would make their enemies think the Israeli people were foolish.
26 Púsose Moisés a la puerta del real, y dijo: ¿Quién es de Jehová? Venga conmigo. Y juntáronse con él todos los hijos de Leví.
So he/I stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, “Everyone who is loyal to Yahweh should come [closer] to me!” So the descendants of Levi gathered around him/me.
27 Y él les dijo: Así dijo Jehová, el Dios de Israel: Ponéd cada uno su espada sobre su muslo: pasád y volvéd de puerta a puerta por el campo, y matád cada uno a su hermano, y a su amigo, y a su pariente.
Then he/I said to them, “Yahweh, the God of us Israeli people, commands that every one of you should fasten your sword to your side, and then go through the camp from this entrance to the other one, and kill some of your relatives and your companions and your neighbors.”
28 Y los hijos de Leví lo hicieron conforme al dicho de Moisés, y cayeron del pueblo en aquel día como tres mil hombres.
The descendants of Levi did what Moses/I told them to do, and they killed 3,000 men on that day.
29 Entonces Moisés dijo: Hoy os habéis consagrado a Jehová, porque cada uno se ha consagrado en su hijo, y en su hermano, para que él dé hoy sobre vosotros bendición.
Moses/I said to the descendants of Levi, “Today you have dedicated yourselves to serving Yahweh by (killing/not sparing) [even] your own sons and brothers, and as a result Yahweh will bless you.”
30 Y aconteció que el día siguiente Moisés dijo al pueblo: Vosotros habéis pecado un gran pecado: mas yo subiré ahora a Jehová, quizá le aplacaré sobre vuestro pecado.
The next day, Moses/I said to the people, “You have committed a terrible sin. But I will now climb up the mountain again to talk with Yahweh. Perhaps I can [persuade him] to forgive you for sinning [like this].”
31 Entonces volvió Moisés a Jehová, y dijo: Yo te ruego: este pueblo ha pecado un pecado grande, porque se hicieron dioses de oro,
So Moses/I went back up the mountain and said to Yahweh, “I am sorry to admit that these people have committed a terrible sin. They have made for themselves a gold idol and have worshiped it.
32 Que perdones ahora su pecado, y si no, ráeme ahora de tu libro, que has escrito.
But now I ask you to please forgive them for having sinned. If you will not forgive them, then erase my name from the book in which you have written [the names of your people].”
33 Y Jehová respondió a Moisés: Al que pecare contra mí, a este raeré yo de mi libro.
But Yahweh said to Moses/me, “It is [only] those who have sinned against me whose names I will erase from that book.
34 Vé pues ahora, lleva a este pueblo donde te he dicho: he aquí, mi ángel irá delante de ti, que en el día de mi visitación yo visitaré en ellos su pecado.
Now you go back down and lead the [Israeli] people to the place that I told you about. Keep in mind that my angel will go in front of you. But, at the time that I determine, I will punish them for their sin.”
35 E hirió Jehová al pueblo, porque habían hecho el becerro que hizo Aarón.
[Later] Yahweh caused a plague to strike the people because they had told Aaron to make the gold [statue of a] young bull.
