Números 19

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1 Habló Yahveh a Moisés y a Aarón y les dijo:	1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
2 «Este es uno de los preceptos legales, prescrito por Yahveh con estas palabras: Diles a los israelitas que te traigan una vaca roja, sin defecto, que no tenga manchas, y que no haya llevado yugo.	2 "This is the regulation which the law of the LORD prescribes. Tell the Israelites to procure for you a red heifer that is free from every blemish and defect and on which no yoke has ever been laid.
3 Dádsela al sacerdote Eleazar. Que la saquen fuera del campamento y sea inmolada en su presencia.	3 This is to be given to Eleazar the priest, to be led outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
4 Entonces el sacerdote Eleazar untará su dedo en la sangre de la vaca y hará con la sangre siete aspersiones hacia la entrada de la Tienda del Encuentro.	4 Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the meeting tent.
5 Será quemada la vaca en su presencia, con su piel, su carne, su sangre e incluso sus excrementos.	5 Then the heifer shall be burned in his sight, with its hide and flesh, its blood and offal;
6 Tomará el sacerdote leña de cedro, hisopo y grana, y la echará en medio de la hoguera de la vaca.	6 and the priest shall take some cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire in which the heifer is being burned.
7 El sacerdote purificará sus vestidos y se lavará el cuerpo con agua; luego podrá ya entrar en el campamento; pero será impuro el sacerdote hasta la tarde.	7 The priest shall then wash his garments and bathe his body in water. He remains unclean until the evening, and only afterward may he return to the camp.
8 El que haya quemado la vaca purificará sus vestidos con agua y lavará su cuerpo con agua; pero será impuro hasta la tarde.	8 Likewise, he who burned the heifer shall wash his garments, bathe his body in water, and be unclean until evening.
9 Un hombre puro recogerá las cenizas de la vaca y las depositará fuera del campamento, en lugar puro. Servirán a la comunidad de los israelitas para el rito de hacer el agua lustral: es un sacrificio por el pecado.	9 Finally, a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them in a clean place outside the camp. There they are to be kept for preparing lustral water for the Israelite community. The heifer is a sin offering.
10 El que haya recogido las cenizas de la vaca lavará sus vestidos y será impuro hasta la tarde. Este será decreto perpetuo tanto para los israelitas como para el forastero residente entre ellos.	10 He who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer shall also wash his garments and be unclean until evening. This is a perpetual ordinance, both for the Israelites and for the aliens residing among them.
11 El que toque a un muerto, cualquier cadáver humano, será impuro siete días.	11 "Whoever touches the dead body of any human being shall be unclean for seven days;
12 Se purificará con aquellas aguas los días tercero y séptimo, y quedará puro. Pero si no se ha purificado los días tercero y séptimo, no quedará puro.	12 he shall purify himself with the water on the third and on the seventh day, and then he will be clean again. But if he fails to purify himself on the third and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.
13 Todo el que toca un muerto, un cadáver humano, y no se purifica, mancha la Morada de Yahveh; ese individuo será extirpado de Israel, porque las aguas lustrales no han corrido sobre él: es impuro; su impureza sigue sobre él.	13 Everyone who fails to purify himself after touching the body of any deceased person, defiles the Dwelling of the LORD and shall be cut off from Israel. Since the lustral water has not been splashed over him, he remains unclean: his uncleanness still clings to him.
14 Esta es la ley para cuando uno muere en la tienda. Todo el que entre en la tienda, y todo el que esté en la tienda, será impuro siete días.	14 "This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, everyone who enters the tent, as well as everyone already in it, shall be unclean for seven days;
15 Y todo recipiente descubierto, que no esté cerrado con tapa o cuerda, será impuro.	15 likewise, every vessel that is open, or with its lid unfastened, shall be unclean.
16 Todo el que toque, en pleno campo, a un muerto a espada, o a un muerto, o huesos de hombre, o una sepultura, será impuro siete días.	16 Moreover, everyone who in the open country touches a dead person, whether he was slain by the sword or died naturally, or who touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.
17 Se tomará para el impuro ceniza de la víctima inmolada en sacrificio por el pecado, y se verterá encima agua viva de una vasija.	17 For anyone who is thus unclean, ashes from the sin offering shall be put in a vessel, and spring water shall be poured on them.
18 Un hombre puro tomará el hisopo, lo mojará en agua y rociará la tienda y todos los objetos y personas que había en ella, e igualmente al que tocó los huesos o al asesinado, o al muerto, o la sepultura.	18 Then a man who is clean shall take some hyssop, dip it in this water, and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the vessels and persons that were in it, or on him who touched a bone, a slain person or other dead body, or a grave.
19 El hombre puro rociará al impuro los días tercero y séptimo: el séptimo día le habrá limpiado de su pecado. Lavará el impuro sus vestidos, se lavará con agua, y será puro por la tarde.	19 The clean man shall sprinkle the unclean on the third and on the seventh day; thus purified on the seventh day, he shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water, and in the evening he will be clean again.
20 Pero el hombre que quedó impuro y no se purificó, ése será extirpado de la asamblea, pues ha manchado el santuario de Yahveh. Las aguas lustrales no han corrido sobre él: es un impuro.	20 Any unclean man who fails to have himself purified shall be cut off from the community, because he defiles the sanctuary of the LORD. As long as the lustral water has not been splashed over him, he remains unclean.
21 Este será para vosotros decreto perpetuo. El que haga la aspersión con las aguas lustrales lavará sus vestidos, y el que haya tocado las aguas lustrales será impuro hasta la tarde.	21 This shall be a perpetual ordinance for you. "One who sprinkles the lustral water shall wash his garments, and anyone who comes in contact with this water shall be unclean until evening.
22 Y todo lo que haya sido tocado por el impuro, será impuro; y la persona que le toque a él, será impura hasta la tarde.	22 Moreover, whatever the unclean person touches becomes unclean itself, and anyone who touches it becomes unclean until evening."