Éxodo 32
1 Y cuando el pueblo vio que Moisés se tardaba en bajar del monte por mucho tiempo, todos se acercaron a Aarón y le dijeron: Ven, haznos dioses para ir delante de nosotros; en cuanto a Moisés, que nos sacó de la montaña. la tierra de Egipto, no tenemos idea de qué ha sido de él.
[(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 Entonces Aarón les dijo: Quiten los anillos de oro que están en los oídos de sus mujeres, sus hijos y sus hijas, y traiganlos a mí.
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 Y todo el pueblo tomó los anillos de oro de sus orejas y se los dio a Aarón.
So the people did that. They took off all their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
4 Y él tomó el oro de ellos y, martillándolo con un cincel, lo hizo en la imagen de metal de un becerro: y ellos dijeron: estos son tus dioses, oh Israel, que te sacó de la 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 cuando Aarón vio esto, hizo un altar delante de él, e hizo una declaración pública, diciendo: Mañana habrá una fiesta para el Señor.
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 Así que el día después de levantarse hicieron ofrendas quemadas y ofrendas de paz; y tomaron sus asientos en la fiesta, y luego se levantaron a divertirse.
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 Y él Señor dijo a Moisés: Anda, baja; porque tu pueblo, que sacaste de la 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 Aún ahora se han apartado de la regla que les di, y se han hecho un becerro de metal y le han dado ofrendas y adorado, diciendo: Este es tu dios, oh Israel, que te sacó de la 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 Y el Señor le dijo a Moisés: He estado observando a este pueblo, y veo que son personas de dura cerviz.
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “I have seen that these people are very stubborn.
10 Ahora no te metas en mi camino, porque mi ira está ardiendo contra ellos; Enviaré destrucción sobre ellos, pero de ti haré una gran nación.
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 Pero Moisés oró a Dios, diciendo: Señor, ¿por qué arde tu ira contra tu pueblo, a quien sacaste de la tierra de Egipto, con gran poder y con la fuerza de tu mano?
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: los llevó a un destino malo, para matarlos en los montes, y los quitó de la tierra? Deja que tu ira se aleje de ellos, y no envíes este mal a 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 Ten en cuenta a Abraham, Isaac e Israel, tus siervos a quienes juraste, diciendo: Haré tu descendencia como las estrellas del cielo en número, y toda esta tierra daré a tu descendencia, como dije, será su herencia 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 Así que el Señor se dejó apartar de su propósito de castigar 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 Entonces Moisés descendió del monte con las dos piedras de la ley en su mano; las piedras tenían escritura en sus dos lados, en el frente y en la parte posterior.
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 Las piedras eran obra de Dios, y la escritura era la escritura de Dios, cortada sobre las piedras.
God [himself] had made the slabs, and he was the one who had engraved the commandments on them.
17 Y cuando el ruido y las voces del pueblo llegaron a oídos de Josué, él dijo a Moisés: Hay ruido de guerra en las tiendas.
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 dijo Moisés: No es la voz de los hombres que vencieron en la batalla, ni el clamor de los que han sido vencidos; es el sonido de las canciones lo que llega a mi oído.
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 cuando llegó cerca de las tiendas, vio la imagen del buey y la gente bailando; y en su ira Moisés liberó las piedras de sus manos, y se rompieron 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 lo quemó en el fuego, y lo molió hasta convertirlo en polvo, y lo puso en el agua, e hizo que bebieran de él 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 Moisés dijo a Aarón: ¿Qué te hizo el pueblo para que permitas que este gran pecado les sobrevenga?
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 dijo Aarón: No se enoje mi señor; has visto cómo los propósitos de este pueblo son malvados.
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: Haznos un dios para ir delante de nosotros; en cuanto a este Moisés, que nos sacó de la tierra de Egipto, no tenemos idea de lo que le ha sucedido.
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 Entonces les dije: El que tenga oro, que se lo quite; así que me lo dieron, y lo puse en el fuego, y salió esta imagen de un 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 vio Moisés que el pueblo estaba fuera de control, porque Aarón los había soltado para vergüenza de ellos 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 Entonces Moisés tomó su lugar en el camino de las tiendas, y dijo: Cualquiera que esté del lado del Señor, que venga a mí. Y todos los hijos de Leví se juntaron a él.
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: Esta es la palabra de él Señor Dios de Israel: cada uno tome su espada a su lado, y vaya de un extremo de las tiendas al otro, dando muerte a su hermano y a su amigo y su vecino.
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 hicieron como Moisés dijo; y aproximadamente tres mil personas fueron ejecutadas ese día.
The descendants of Levi did what Moses/I told them to do, and they killed 3,000 men on that day.
29 Y dijo Moisés: Hoy se han consagrado sacerdotes del Señor; porque cada uno de ustedes se ha opuesto unos a su hijo otros a su hermano; la bendición del Señor está sobre ustedes este día.
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 al día siguiente, Moisés dijo al pueblo: Grande ha sido tu pecado; pero subiré al Señor y veré si puedo obtener el perdón por tu 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 Moisés regresó al Señor y dijo: Este pueblo ha hecho un gran pecado, haciéndose un dios 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 Pero ahora, si les das perdón, pero si no, deja que mi nombre sea borrado de tu libro.
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 él Señor dijo a Moisés: Cualquiera que hiciere mal contra mí, será borrado 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 Pero ahora, ve, lleva a la gente a ese lugar del que te he dado palabra; mira, mi ángel irá delante de ti; pero cuando venga el tiempo de mi juicio, les enviaré castigo por 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 Y él Señor castigó al pueblo porque adoraron al becerro que Aarón había hecho.
[Later] Yahweh caused a plague to strike the people because they had told Aaron to make the gold [statue of a] young bull.
