Exodus 21
1 And these [are] the ordinances which you shall set before them.
Estas son las leyes que les has de dar:
2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.
Cuando comprares un esclavo hebreo, te servirá seis años, más al séptimo saldrá libre sin pagar nada.
3 If he should have come in alone, he shall also go forth alone; and if his wife should have gone in together with him, his wife also shall go out.
Si entró solo, solo saldrá; si tenía mujer, saldrá con él su mujer.
4 Moreover, if his master give him a wife, and she have [born] him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master's; and he shall go forth alone.
Si su amo le dio mujer, y ella le dio (a su marido) hijos o hijas, la mujer y sus hijos serán de su amo, y él saldrá solo.
5 And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I will not go away free;
Mas si el esclavo dijere: “Amo a mi señor, y a mi mujer y a mis hijos, no quiero salir libre”,
6 his master shall bring him to the judgement-seat of God, and then shall he bring him to the door, —to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
su amo lo llevará ante Dios, y arrimándolo a la puerta o al poste de ella, su amo le horadará la oreja con una lezna; y así quedará esclavo suyo para siempre.
7 And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart.
Cuando un hombre vendiere a su hija por esclava, ella no saldrá como salen los esclavos.
8 If she be not pleasing to her master, after she has betrothed herself to him, he shall let her go free; but he is not at liberty to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has trifled with her.
Si no agrada a su señor que la había destinado para sí, permita él su rescate; mas no podrá venderla a gente extraña, por haberla engañado.
9 And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her according to the right of daughters.
Si la destina para su hijo, la ha de tratar según el derecho de las hijas.
10 And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship [with him].
Si toma para sí otra mujer, no le disminuirá la comida, ni el vestido, ni el deber conyugal.
11 And if he will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free without money.
Y si él no quiere darle estas tres cosas, puede ella salirse, sin pagar nada, sin rescate.
12 And if any man strike another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.
El que hiera mortalmente a otro, muera irremisiblemente.
13 But as for him that did it not willingly, but God delivered him into his hands, I will give you a place whither the slayer may flee.
Mas si no le hizo asechanzas, sino que Dios le dejó caer en su mano, para este tal Yo te señalaré lugar donde podrá refugiarse.
14 And if any one lie in wait for his neighbour to kill him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from my altar to put him to death.
Pero al que obrare con malicia contra su prójimo, matándole con alevosía, a ese lo arrancarás hasta de mi altar para matarlo.
15 Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death.
El que pegare a su padre o a su madre, muera irremisiblemente.
16 He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.
Quien robare un hombre y le vendiere, o si fuere hallado todavía en su poder, muera irremisiblemente.
17 Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him certainly die.
El que maldijere a su padre o a su madre, muera sin remedio.
18 And if two men revile each other and strike the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;
Cuando riñeren unos hombres y el uno hiriere al otro con piedra o con el puño, sin causarle la muerte, y si este después de hacer cama
19 if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.
se levantare y anduviere fuera, apoyándose en su bastón, quedará libre aquel que lo hirió. Le pagará solamente el tiempo perdido y los gastos de su curación completa.
20 And if a man strike his man-servant or his maidservant, with a rod, and [the party] die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.
Quien hiriere con un palo a su siervo o a su sierva, de modo que muera bajo su mano, caerá irremisiblemente bajo la ley de venganza.
21 But if [the servant] continue to live a day or two, let not [the master] be punished; for he is his money.
Pero si sobreviviere un día o dos, no será castigado, por cuanto es hacienda suya.
22 And if two men strive and strike a woman with child, and her child be born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman's husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation.
Cuando hombres trabados en riña dieren un golpe a una mujer encinta, de modo que aborte, sin más daño, (el culpable) será multado conforme a lo que imponga el marido de la mujer y según determinen los jueces.
23 But if it be perfectly formed, he shall give life for life,
Pero si resultare daño, darás vida por vida,
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie,
25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
quemadura por quemadura, herida por herida, contusión por contusión.
26 And if one strike the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his maidservant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake.
Si uno, hiriendo el ojo de su siervo o el ojo de su sierva lo destruyere, le dará libertad en compensación de su ojo.
27 And if he should strike out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.
Asimismo, si hiciere saltar un diente a su siervo o un diente a su sierva, lo pondrá en libertad en compensación de su diente.
28 And if a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.
Si un buey acornea a un hombre o a una mujer, con subsiguiente muerte, aquel buey será apedreado y no se comerá su carne, mas el dueño del buey quedará sin culpa.
29 But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.
Pero si el buey acorneaba ya desde tiempo atrás, y su dueño, a pesar de ser avisado, no lo tuvo encerrado, de modo que pudo matar a hombre o a mujer, el buey será apedreado, y también su dueño será muerto.
30 And if a ransom should be imposed on him, he shall pay for the ransom of his soul as much as they shall lay upon him.
Si le imponen un precio de rescate, dará en rescate de su vida cuanto se le imponga.
31 And if [the bull] gore a son or daughter, let them do to him according to this ordinance.
Si acornea a un hijo o a una hija, hágase con él según esta ley.
32 And if the bull gore a man-servant or maidservant, he shall pay to their master thirty silver didrachmas, and the bull shall be stoned.
Pero si el buey acorneare a un siervo o a una sierva, el dueño pagará treinta siclos de plata al dueño de ellos, y el buey será apedreado.
33 And if any one open a pit or dig a cavity in stone, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall in there,
Si uno deja abierto un pozo, o si uno cava un pozo y no lo tapa, y cayere en él un buey o asno,
34 the owner of the pit shall make compensation; he shall give money to their owner, and the dead shall be his own.
el propietario del pozo pagará indemnización en dinero al dueño de ellos, y el animal muerto será suyo.
35 And if any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbour, and it die, they shall sell the living bull and divide the money, and they shall divide the dead bull.
Si el buey de uno hiere al buey de otro, y este muere, venderán el buey vivo partiéndose su precio, y también el buey muerto será dividido entre ellos.
36 But if the bull be known to have been given to goring in time past, and they have testified to his owner, and he have not removed him, he shall repay bull for bull, but the dead shall be his own.
Mas si era notorio que el buey acorneaba desde tiempo atrás y su dueño faltó en custodiarlo, este resarcirá el daño: buey por buey; mas el (buey) muerto será suyo.
