Exodus 23
1 “You must not spread stories that are lies. You must not help bad people by giving evidence that's malicious.
No admitirás falso rumor. No pongas tu mano con el impío para ser testigo falso.
2 Don't follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give evidence in a lawsuit, don't corrupt justice by siding with the majority.
No seguirás a los muchos para mal hacer, ni responderás en pleito acostándote tras los muchos para hacer tuerto.
3 Don't show favoritism to poor people in their legal cases either.
Ni al pobre honrarás en su causa.
4 If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey that has wandered off, take it back it to him.
Si encontrares el buey de tu enemigo, o su asno errado, volviendo se lo volverás.
5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you that has fallen under its load, don't just leave it there. You must stop and help.
Si vieres el asno del que te aborrece echado debajo de su carga, ¿dejarlo has entonces desamparado? ayudando ayudarás con él.
6 You must not prevent the poor from getting justice in their lawsuits.
No pervertirás el derecho de tu mendigo en su pleito.
7 Don't have anything to do with making false accusations. Don't kill the innocent or those who do right, for I won't let the guilty go unpunished.
De palabra de mentira te alejarás; y no matarás al inocente y justo; porque yo no justificaré al impío.
8 Don't accept bribes, for a bribe blinds those who can see, and undermines the evidence of the honest.
No recibirás presente; porque el presente ciega a los que ven, y pervierte las palabras justas.
9 Don't abuse foreigners living among you, since you know very well what it's like to be foreigners, for you were once foreigners in Egypt.
Ítem, al extranjero no angustiarás; pues que vosotros sabéis el alma del extranjero, que fuisteis extranjeros en la tierra de Egipto.
10 Six years you are to sow your land and harvest crops,
Seis años sembrarás tu tierra, y allegarás su cosecha:
11 but in the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that poor people may eat what grows naturally from the field and the wild animals can finish what's left. Follow the same procedure for your vineyards and olive groves.
Mas al séptimo la dejarás y soltarás, para que coman los pobres de tu pueblo; y lo que quedare comerán las bestias del campo: así harás de tu viña y de tu olivar.
12 You have six days to do your work, but on the seventh day you must stop working, so that your ox and your donkey can rest, and your slaves' families can catch their breath, as well as the foreigners living among you.
Seis días harás tus negocios; y al séptimo día holgarás, porque huelgue tu buey, y tu asno; y tome refrigerio el hijo de tu sierva, y el extranjero.
13 Make sure to pay attention to everything I've told you. Don't think to call on the names of other gods—you must not even mention them.
Y en todo lo que os he dicho, seréis avisados. Y nombre de otros dioses no mentaréis, ni se oirá en vuestra boca.
14 Three times every year you are to celebrate a feast dedicated to me.
Tres veces en el año me celebraréis fiesta.
15 You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread as I instructed you. You are to eat bread without yeast for seven days at the appropriate time in the month of Abib, because that was the month you left Egypt. No one can come before me without bringing an offering.
La fiesta de las cenceñas guardarás: siete días comerás los panes sin levadura, de la manera que yo te mandé, en el tiempo del mes de Abib, porque en él saliste de Egipto, y no serán vistas mis faces en vacío.
16 You are also to observe the Festival of Harvest when you present the firstfruits of the produce from what you've sown in the fields. Lastly you are to observe the Festival of Gathering-In the Harvest at the end of the year, when you gather in the harvest of the rest of your crops from the field.
Ítem, la fiesta de la segada de los primeros frutos de tus trabajos que hubieres sembrado en el campo. Y la fiesta de la cosecha a la salida del año, cuando cogieres tus trabajos del campo.
17 Every Israelite male is to come before the Lord God at these three times every year.
Tres veces en el año parecerá todo varón tuyo delante del Señor Jehová.
18 You must not offer the blood of my sacrifices together with anything that contains yeast, and the fat from the offerings presented at my festival must not be left until morning.
No sacrificarás sobre pan leudo la sangre de mi sacrificio, ni el sebo de mi cordero quedará de la noche hasta la mañana.
19 Bring the best firstfruits of your crops to the house of the Lord your God. Don't cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
Las primicias de los primeros frutos de tu tierra traerás a la casa de Jehová tu Dios. No guisarás el cabrito con la leche de su madre.
20 Look, I'm sending an angel ahead of you to protect you on the way and to take you to the place I've prepared for you.
He aquí, yo envío el ángel delante de ti, para que te guarde en el camino, y te meta al lugar que yo he aparejado.
21 Make sure you pay attention to him and do what he says. Don't oppose him, because he won't forgive rebellion, for he carries my authority.
Guárdate delante de él, y oye su voz, no le seas rebelde, porque él no perdonará a vuestra rebelión; porque mi nombre está en medio de él.
22 However, if you listen to him carefully, and do everything that I tell you, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and I will fight those who fight against you.
Porque si oyendo oyeres su voz, e hicieres todo lo que yo te dijere, seré enemigo a tus enemigos, y afligiré a los que te afligieren.
23 For my angel will go ahead of you and take you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.
Porque mi ángel irá delante de ti, y te meterá al Amorreo, y al Jetteo, y al Ferezeo, y al Cananeo, y al Heveo, y al Jebuseo, los cuales yo haré cortar.
24 You must not bow down to their gods or worship them or follow their pagan practices. No, you must demolish their idols and smash their sacred pillars into pieces.
No te inclinarás a sus dioses, ni los servirás, ni harás como ellos hacen, antes los destruirás del todo, y quebrantarás del todo sus estatuas.
25 You are to worship the Lord your God, and he will bless your food and water. I will make sure none of you fall sick.
Mas a Jehová vuestro Dios serviréis, y él bendecirá tu pan, y tus aguas, y yo quitaré enfermedad de en medio de ti.
26 No woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will make sure you live long lives.
No habrá amovedera ni estéril en tu tierra, y yo cumpliré el número de tus días.
27 I will send terror about me ahead of you which will throw every nation you meet into panic. I will make all your enemies turn and run away.
Yo enviaré mi terror delante de ti, y haré atónito a todo pueblo donde tú entrares; y te daré la cerviz de todos tus enemigos.
28 I will send hornets ahead of you to drive out before you the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites.
Y yo enviaré la avispa delante de ti, que eche fuera al Heveo, y al Cananeo, y al Jetteo, de delante de ti.
29 I will not drive them out in just one year, because the land would become desolate and you would have to deal with increased numbers of wild animals.
No lo echaré de delante de ti en un año, porque no se asuele la tierra, y se aumenten contra ti las bestias del campo.
30 Bit by bit I will drive them out ahead of you, until there are enough of you to take possession of the land.
Poco a poco lo echaré de delante de ti, hasta que tú multipliques, y tomes la tierra por heredad.
31 I will fix your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will hand the inhabitants of the land over to you, and you will drive them out.
Y yo pondré tu término desde el mar Bermejo hasta la mar de Palestina: y desde el desierto, hasta el río; porque yo pondré en vuestras manos los moradores de la tierra, y tú los echarás de delante de ti.
32 You must not make any agreement with them or with their gods.
No harás alianza con ellos, ni con sus dioses.
33 They must not be allowed to stay in your land, otherwise they will lead you to sin against me. For if you worship their gods, they will definitely become a trap for you.”
En tu tierra no habitarán, porque quizá no te hagan pecar contra mí, sirviendo a sus dioses: porque te será por tropezón.
