Levítico 23
1 Y habló Jehová a Moisés, diciendo:
Yahweh said to Moses/me,
2 Habla a los hijos de Israel, y díles: Las solemnidades de Jehová, a las cuales convocaréis santas convocaciones, serán estas mis solemnidades.
“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, y el séptimo día sábado de holganza será, convocación santa: ninguna obra haréis, sábado es de Jehová en todas vuestras habitaciones.
“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 solemnidades de Jehová, las convocaciones santas a las cuales convocaréis en sus tiempos.
“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 En el mes primero, a los catorce del mes, entre las dos tardes, pascua a Jehová.
[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 Y a los quince días de este mes, la solemnidad de las cenceñas a Jehová: siete días comeréis cenceñas.
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 tendréis santa convocación: ninguna obra servil haréis.
On the first day of that festival, you all must stop your regular work and you must gather together [to worship me].
8 Y ofreceréis a Jehová siete días ofrenda encendida: el séptimo día será santa convocación: ninguna obra servil haréis.
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 Ítem, habló Jehová a Moisés, diciendo:
Yahweh also told Moses/me
10 Habla a los hijos de Israel, y díles: Cuando hubiereis entrado en la tierra, que yo os doy, y segareis su segada, traeréis al sacerdote un omer por primicia de primicias de vuestra segada.
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 El cual mecerá el omer delante de Jehová para que seáis aceptos: el siguiente día del sábado lo mecerá el sacerdote.
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 Y el día que ofreciereis el omer, ofreceréis un cordero perfecto de un año en holocausto a Jehová.
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 Con su presente, dos diezmas de flor de harina amasada con aceite en ofrenda encendida a Jehová para olor de holganza, y su derramadura de vino, la cuarta de un hin.
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 Y no comeréis pan, ni espiga tostada, ni tierna hasta este mismo día, hasta que hayáis ofrecido la ofrenda de vuestro Dios: estatuto perpetuo por vuestras edades en todas vuestras habitaciones.
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 Y contaros heis desde el siguiente día del sábado, desde el día en que ofrecisteis el omer de la mecedura, siete semanas cumplidas serán.
“Seven weeks after the priest offers that grain to me,
16 Hasta el siguiente día del sábado séptimo contaréis cincuenta días: entonces ofreceréis presente nuevo a Jehová.
on the next/50th day after he offers it, [each family] must bring to me an offering from the new crop of grain.
17 De vuestras habitaciones traeréis el pan de la mecedura: dos décimas de flor de harina serán, leudo será cocido, primicias a Jehová.
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 Y ofreceréis con el pan siete corderos perfectos de un año, y un novillo hijo de vaca, y dos carneros, serán holocausto a Jehová: y su presente, y sus derramaduras, en ofrenda encendida de olor de holganza a Jehová.
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 Ítem, ofreceréis un macho de cabrío por expiación, y dos corderos de un año en sacrificio de paces.
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 Y el sacerdote los mecerá con el pan de las primicias, con mecedura delante de Jehová, con los dos corderos: santidad serán de Jehová 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 Y convocaréis en este mismo día, santa convocación os será: ninguna obra servil haréis: estatuto perpetuo en todas vuestras habitaciones por vuestras edades.
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 Y cuando segareis la segada de vuestra tierra, no acabarás de segar el rincón de tu haza, ni espigarás tu segada: para el pobre y para el extranjero la dejarás: Yo Jehová, vuestro Dios.
“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 Ítem, habló Jehová a Moisés, diciendo:
Yahweh also told Moses/me
24 Habla a los hijos de Israel, y díles: En el mes séptimo, al primero del mes tendréis sábado, la memoria de la jubilación, 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 Ninguna obra servil haréis, y ofreceréis ofrenda encendida a Jehová.
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 Ítem, habló Jehová a Moisés, diciendo:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
27 Empero a los diez de este mes séptimo será el día de las expiaciones: tendréis santa convocación, y afligiréis vuestras personas, y ofreceréis ofrenda encendida a Jehová.
“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 Ninguna obra haréis en este mismo día, porque es día de expiaciones, para reconciliaros delante de Jehová vuestro Dios.
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 Porque toda persona, que no se afligiere en este día mismo, será cortada de sus pueblos:
You must expel from your group anyone who does not (fast/abstain from eating food) on that day.
30 Y cualquiera persona, que hiciere cualquiera obra en este día mismo, yo destruiré la tal persona de entre su pueblo.
I will get rid of anyone who does any kind of work on that day.
31 Ninguna obra haréis: estatuto perpetuo será por vuestras edades en todas vuestras habitaciones.
You must not work at all! You must always obey those instructions/commands, and you must obey them wherever you live.
32 Sábado de holganza será a vosotros, y afligiréis vuestras personas a los nueve del mes en la tarde, de tarde a tarde holgaréis vuestro 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 Ítem, habló Jehová a Moisés, diciendo:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
34 Habla a los hijos de Israel, y díles: A los quince de este mes séptimo será la solemnidad de las cabañas a Jehová por 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 será santa convocación: ninguna obra servil haréis.
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 ofreceréis ofrenda encendida a Jehová: el octavo día tendréis santa convocación, y ofreceréis ofrenda encendida a Jehová: fiesta es: ninguna obra servil haréis.
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 solemnidades de Jehová a las cuales convocaréis santas convocaciones, para ofrecer ofrenda encendida a Jehová, holocausto y presente, sacrificio y derramaduras cada cosa en su tiempo:
“[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 Allende de los sábados de Jehová, y allende de vuestros dones, y allende de todos vuestros votos, y allende de todas vuestras ofrendas voluntarias, que daréis a Jehová.
(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 Empero a los quince del mes séptimo, cuando hubiereis allegado el fruto de la tierra, haréis fiesta a Jehová por siete días: el primer día, sábado: y el día octavo, sábado.
“[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 Y tomaros heis el primer día del fruto de algún árbol hermoso: ramos de palmas, y ramos de árboles espesos, y sauces de los arroyos, y haréis alegría delante de Jehová vuestro Dios por siete días.
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 Y haréis a él fiesta, a Jehová, por siete días cada un año, y estatuto perpetuo será por vuestras edades: en el mes séptimo la haréis.
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 En cabañas habitaréis siete días: todo natural en Israel habitará 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 sepan vuestros descendientes, que en cabañas hice yo habitar a los hijos de Israel, cuando los saqué de la tierra de Egipto: Yo Jehová, vuestro Dios.
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 Y Moisés habló a los hijos de Israel de las solemnidades de Jehová.
So Moses/I gave to the Israeli people all those instructions concerning the festivals that Yahweh [wanted them to celebrate] each year.
