Levítico 21
1 Entonces él Señor le dijo a Moisés: Di a los sacerdotes, hijos de Aarón: Nadie se contamine por los muertos entre su pueblo;
Yahweh also said to Moses/me, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them,
2 Pero solo por sus relaciones cercanas, por su madre o su padre, su hijo o su hija y su hermano;
‘You priests must not cause yourselves to become unfit to do my work by [touching] corpses. Priests are permitted to touch only the corpses of close relatives, such as the priest’s mother or father or his son or daughter or his brother.
3 Y para su hermana, una virgen, porque ella es su relación cercana y no ha tenido marido, por ella puede contaminarse.
Priests are also permitted to touch the corpse of a sister if she is not married, because she has no husband [to bury her body].
4 Pero él, siendo un sacerdote entre su pueblo, no se contamine de tal manera que se avergüence de sí mismo.
Priests must not cause themselves to become unfit to do my work [DOU] by [touching corpses of] people who were married to one of their close relatives.
5 No se les debe cortar el cabello, o el pelo de la barbilla, o hacerse heridas en la carne.
You priests must not shave your heads or shave the edges of your beards or cut your bodies [to show that you are mourning for someone who has died].
6 Sean santos para su Dios y no profanen el nombre de su Dios; porque las ofrendas de fuego para él Señor y el pan de su Dios son ofrecidos por ellos, y han de ser santos.
You must act in ways that I, your God, consider to be holy, and not disgrace my name/reputation. You are the ones who present to me the offerings that are burned. [It is as though] those offerings are food for me, your God; so you must act in ways that are holy.
7 No pueden tomar por esposa a una mujer prostituta, violada o divorciada: porque el sacerdote es santo para su Dios.
You priests must not marry women who have been prostitutes or who have been divorced from their husbands, because you priests are (set apart for me/holy).
8 Y él debe ser consagrado, porque por él se ofrece el pan de tu Dios; Él debe ser santo a tus ojos, porque yo, el Señor, que te santifico, soy santo.
You must consider that you are holy, because you offer food to me, your God. Consider yourselves to be holy because I, Yahweh, [the one who caused you to be priests and] the one who enables you to be holy, am holy.
9 Y si la hija de un sacerdote empieza a fornicar, y con su comportamiento avergüenza a su padre, que la quemen con fuego.
If a priest’s daughter disgraces herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; and she must be killed by being burned in a fire.
10 Y el que es el principal sacerdote entre sus hermanos, sobre cuya cabeza se ha puesto el aceite santo, que ha sido escogido para ponerse la túnica sagrada, no puede soltarse el pelo ni rasgará su ropa.
The Supreme Priest is the one among his relatives who has been [appointed for that work] by having his head anointed with olive oil. He is also the one who has been appointed to wear the special garments that priests wear. He must not allow the hair on his [head] to remain uncombed, and he must not tear his clothes [when he is mourning for someone].
11 No puede acercarse a ningún cadáver ni aunque sea su padre o su madre no se hará inmundo;
He must not enter some place where there is a corpse. He must not do that and cause himself to become unfit for his work, even if it is his father or his mother who has died.
12 Él no puede salir del lugar santo ni profanar el lugar santo de su Dios; porque la consagración de la unción del aceite santo de su Dios está sobre él: Yo soy el Señor.
He must not leave the Sacred Tent [to join those who are mourning], because he would cause himself to become unfit for his work and would also defile/desecrate the Sacred Tent. He must not leave the Sacred Tent [at that time], because by being anointed with olive oil he has been (appointed/set apart) to serve his God [in the Sacred Tent]. I, Yahweh, [am the one who am commanding this].
13 Y que tome por esposa a una que no haya tenido relaciones con un hombre.
Women whom you priests marry must be virgins.
14 No tomará una viuda, violada, o divorciada, o una prostituta, no puede ser la esposa de un sacerdote; más debe ser una virgen de su pueblo.
You priests must not marry widows or prostitutes or divorced women, because if you did that, [if you later have] sons, they would not be acceptable to be priests among your people. You must marry only virgins from among your own people. I am Yahweh, who sets priests apart to be holy.’”
15 Para que no profané a su descendencia entre su pueblo, porque yo, el Señor, lo he santificado.
16 Y él Señor dijo a Moisés:
Yahweh also said to Moses/me,
17 Dile a Aarón: si un hombre de su familia, en cualquier generación, tiene defectos, no se acerque a hacer la ofrenda del pan de su Dios.
“Say this to Aaron: 'For all future time, none of your descendants who has any defects [on his body] will be allowed to come near [the altar] to offer [sacrifices to me which will be like] [MET] my food:
18 Pero cualquier hombre cuyo cuerpo tenga defectos no puede acercarse: uno que es ciego, cojo desfigurado o deforme,
No one who is blind or lame or deformed, or whose [face is] disfigured,
19 O un hombre con los pies o las manos rotas,
no man with a crippled foot or a crippled hand,
20 O uno cuya espalda está doblada, uno que es anormalmente pequeño o uno que tiene un ojo dañado, o cuya piel está enferma o cuyas partes sexuales tienen defectos;
no man who is a hunchback or a dwarf, no man whose eyes are defective, no man who has a skin disease [DOU] or whose testicles have been damaged is allowed to brings sacrifices.
21 Ningún hombre de la descendencia de Aarón cuyo cuerpo tenga defectos de ninguna manera puede acercarse para dar las ofrendas quemadas del Señor: tiene defecto, no puede acercarse para hacer las ofrendas.
No descendant of Aaron, the [first Supreme] Priest, who has any defect is allowed to come to the altar to offer to me, his God, sacrifices that will be burned.
22 Él puede comer del pan de su Dios, el santo y el más santo;
Priests who have defects are permitted to eat the various kinds of holy food offered to me.
23 Pero no puede entrar dentro del velo ni acercarse al altar, porque tiene defectos; para que no profane mi santuario; porque yo, el Señor, los he santificado.
But because of their defects, they must not go near the curtain [in the Sacred Tent] or near the altar, because if they did that, they would desecrate my Sacred Tent. I am Yahweh, the one who sets those places apart as being holy.'”
24 Estas son las palabras que Moisés dijo a Aarón, a sus hijos y a todos los hijos de Israel.
So Moses/I told this to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israeli people.
