Deuteronomy 7
1 The Lord your God is going to lead you into the land that you are taking over in order to own it, and will drive out ahead of you many other nations: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations that are larger and stronger than you.
Cuando Jehová tu Dios te hubiere metido en la tierra en la cual tú has de entrar para heredarla, y hubiere echado las muchas gentes de delante de tu presencia, al Jetteo, y al Gergeseo, y al Amorreo, y al Cananeo, y al Ferezeo, y al Heveo, y al Jebuseo, siete naciones muchas y fuertes más que tú;
2 When the Lord your God has handed them over to you to defeat them, then you must set them apart for destruction. Don't make any peace treaty with them and don't show them any mercy.
Y Jehová tu Dios las hubiere entregado delante de ti, y las hirieres, destruyendo las destruirás: no harás con ellos alianza, ni los tomarás a merced:
3 Don't intermarry with them. Don't let your daughters marry their sons or have their daughters marry your sons,
Y no consuegrarás con ellos: no darás tu hija a su hijo, ni tomarás su hija para tu hijo;
4 because they will lead your children away from following me to worship other gods. Then the Lord will be angry with you, and he will quickly come and kill you.
Porque tirará a tu hijo de en pos de mí, y servirán a dioses ajenos; y el furor de Jehová se encenderá sobre vosotros, y destruirte ha presto.
5 On the contrary, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, knock down their idolatrous pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn down their idols.
Sino así haréis con ellos: Sus altares destruiréis, y sus estatuas quebraréis, y cortaréis sus bosques, y sus esculturas quemaréis en el fuego.
6 For you are the Lord your God's holy people. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special people, valued above all other peoples on the earth.
Porque tú eres pueblo santo a Jehová tu Dios: Jehová tu Dios te ha escogido para ser a él un pueblo singular más que todos los pueblos, que están sobre la haz de la tierra.
7 It wasn't because there were so many of you that the Lord loved you more than any other nation, in fact he chose you though there were so few of you.
No por ser vosotros más que todos los pueblos, os ha codiciado Jehová, y os ha escogido: porque vosotros eráis los más pocos de todos los pueblos:
8 However, because the Lord loved you and kept the promise he gave to your forefathers, He led you out by his power and rescued you from the prison-house of slavery, from the rule of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
Mas porque Jehová os amó, y quiso guardar el juramento que juró a vuestros padres, os sacó Jehová con mano fuerte, y os rescató de casa de siervos, de la mano de Faraón rey de Egipto.
9 That's why you can be sure that the Lord your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps his agreement based on trustworthy love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
Y para que sepas que Jehová tu Dios es Dios, Dios fiel, que guarda el concierto y la misericordia a los que le aman, y guardan sus mandamientos hasta las mil generaciones:
10 But he doesn't hesitate to pay back those who hate him by destroying them.
Y que paga en su cara al que le aborrece, destruyéndole: ni dilatará al que le aborrece, en su cara le pagará.
11 So keep the commandments and rules and regulations that I'm giving you to follow today.
Guarda pues los mandamientos, y estatutos, y derechos que yo te mando hoy que hagas.
12 If you listen to these regulations and are careful to observe them, then the Lord your God will keep his agreement and the trustworthy love that he promised to your forefathers.
Y será, que por haber oído estos derechos, y guardado, y hécholos, Jehová tu Dios guardará contigo el concierto y la misericordia, que juró a tus padres:
13 He will love you and bless you and give you many descendants. He will bless your children and the crops your land produces—your grain, new wine, and olive oil, the calves of your cattle herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that he promised your forefathers to give you.
Y amarte ha, y bendecirte ha, y multiplicarte ha: y bendecirá el fruto de tu vientre, y el fruto de tu tierra, y tu grano, y tu mosto, y tu aceite, la cria de tus vacas, y los rebaños de tus ovejas en la tierra, que juró a tus padres que te daría.
14 You will be blessed more than any other nation; none of you will be childless, and none of your livestock will fail to have young.
Bendito serás más que todos los pueblos: no habrá en ti estéril macho ni hembra, ni en tus bestias.
15 The Lord will keep you from having any kind of sickness. He will not let you have any of the terrible diseases you saw in Egypt, but he will let all who hate you suffer from them.
Y quitará de ti Jehová toda enfermedad, y todas las malas plagas de Egipto, que tú sabes: no las pondrá sobre ti, antes las pondrá sobre todos los que te aborrecieren.
16 You are to destroy all the nations the Lord your God hands over to you. Don't look on them with sympathy. Don't worship their gods, for that will end up being a trap to you.
Y consumirás a todos los pueblos, que Jehová tu Dios te da: no los perdonará tu ojo: no servirás a sus dioses, que te será tropezón.
17 You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than us. How on earth can we drive them out?”
Cuando dijeres en tu corazón: Aquellas gentes son muchas más que yo, ¿cómo las podré yo desarraigar?
18 But don't be afraid of them. Make sure you remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and the whole of Egypt:
No tengas temor de ellos, acuérdate bien de lo que hizo Jehová tu Dios con Faraón, y con todo Egipto:
19 the amazing tests you witnessed, the signs and miracles, the great power and incredible strength the Lord your God used to lead you out. The Lord your God is going to deal with all the nations you're currently afraid of in the same way.
De las grandes pruebas que vieron tus ojos, y de las señales y milagros, y de la mano fuerte, y brazo extendido con que Jehová tu Dios te sacó: así hará Jehová tu Dios con todos los pueblos de cuya presencia tú temieres.
20 On top of this, the Lord your God will send the hornet against them until anyone who has survived and anyone hiding from you have been killed.
Y también enviará Jehová tu Dios sobre ellos avispas hasta que perezcan los que quedaren, y los que se hubieren escondido de delante de ti.
21 Don't be frightened of these nations, for the Lord your God, who is with you, is a powerful and awesome God.
No desmayes delante de ellos, que Jehová tu Dios está en medio de ti, Dios grande y temeroso.
22 The Lord your God will drive out these nations ahead of you in stages. You won't be able to get rid of them all at the same time, or you'd be overwhelmed by wild animals.
Y Jehová tu Dios echará estas gentes de delante de ti poco a poco: no las podrás acabar luego: porque las bestias del campo no se aumenten contra ti.
23 But the Lord your God will hand them over to you and throw them into a terrible panic, until they are wiped out.
Mas Jehová tu Dios las entregará delante de ti, y él las quebrantará de un gran quebrantamiento, hasta que sean destruidos.
24 He will give their defeated kings to you to be killed, and even their names will be forgotten. No one will be able to withstand you; you will completely destroy them.
Y él entregará sus reyes en tu mano, y tú destruirás el nombre de ellos de debajo del cielo: nadie parará delante de ti hasta que los destruyas.
25 You must burn the idols of their god. Don't desire the silver and gold that covers them. Don't take it or otherwise it will be a trap for you because the Lord your God detests anything to do with idols.
Las esculturas de sus dioses quemarás en el fuego, no codiciarás plata ni oro de sobre ellas para tomártelo, porque no tropieces en ello, porque es abominación a Jehová tu Dios.
26 Don't bring any detestable idol into your house, otherwise you will treated just like it—by being set apart for destruction. You are to treat idols as totally despicable, and stay far away from them, because they are set apart for destruction.
Y no meterás abominación en tu casa, porque no seas tú anatema como ello: aborreciendo lo aborrecerás, y abominando lo abominarás, porque es anatema.
