| 1 Habló Yahveh a Moisés y a Aarón y les dijo: | 1 Now the LORD said to Moses and to 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 statute of the law which the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and upon which a yoke has never come. |
| 3 Dádsela al sacerdote Eleazar. Que la saquen fuera del campamento y sea inmolada en su presencia. | 3 And you shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and she shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him; |
| 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 and Eleazar the priest shall take some of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times. |
| 5 Será quemada la vaca en su presencia, con su piel, su carne, su sangre e incluso sus excrementos. | 5 And the heifer shall be burned in his sight; her skin, her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burned; |
| 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 cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet stuff, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer. |
| 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 Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until evening. |
| 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 He who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall 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 And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place; and they shall be kept for the congregation of the people of Israel for the water for impurity, for the removal of sin. |
| 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 And he who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening. And this shall be to the people of Israel, and to the stranger who sojourns among them, a perpetual statute. |
| 11 El que toque a un muerto, cualquier cadáver humano, será impuro siete días. | 11 "He who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean 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 cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean; but if he does not cleanse himself on the third day 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 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of any man who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on 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: every one who comes into the tent, and every one who is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. |
| 15 Y todo recipiente descubierto, que no esté cerrado con tapa o cuerda, será impuro. | 15 And every open vessel, which has no cover fastened upon it, is 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 Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean 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 the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and running water shall be added in a vessel; |
| 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 clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the furnishings, and upon the persons who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the 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 and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean. |
| 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 "But the man who is unclean and does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; because the water for impurity has not been thrown upon him, he is 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 And it shall be a perpetual statute for them. He who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes; and he who touches the water for impurity 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 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and any one who touches it shall be unclean until evening." |
