Deuteronomy 21
1 And if one be found slain with the sword in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, having fallen in the field, and they do not know who has struck [him];
Cuando fuere hallado algún muerto en la tierra que Jehová tu Dios te da, para que la heredes, echado en el campo, y no se supiere quien le hirió;
2 your elders and your judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:
Entonces tus ancianos y tus jueces saldrán, y medirán hasta las ciudades que están al derredor del muerto:
3 and it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not laboured, and which has not borne a yoke.
Y será que los ancianos de aquella ciudad, de la ciudad más cercana al muerto, tomarán una becerra de las vacas, que no haya servido, que no haya traído yugo;
4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall kill the heifer in the valley.
Y los ancianos de aquella ciudad traerán la becerra a un valle áspero, que nunca haya sido arado ni sembrado, y descervigarán allí la becerra en el valle;
5 And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by him, and to bless in his name, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [decided].
Y vendrán los sacerdotes hijos de Leví, porque a ellos escogió Jehová tu Dios para que le sirvan, y para bendecir en nombre de Jehová, y por el dicho de ellos, se determinará todo pleito, y toda llaga.
6 And all the elders of that city who draw near to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;
Y todos los ancianos de aquella ciudad más cercana al muerto lavarán sus manos sobre la becerra descervigada en el valle.
7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen [it].
Y protestarán, y dirán: Nuestras manos no han derramado esta sangre, ni nuestros ojos lo vieron:
8 Be merciful to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O Lord, that innocent blood may not be charged on your people Israel: and the blood shall be atoned for to them.
Expía a tu pueblo Israel al cual redimiste, oh Jehová, y no pongas la sangre inocente en medio de tu pueblo Israel. Y la sangre les será perdonada.
9 And you shall take away innocent blood from among you, if you should do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.
Y tú quitarás la sangre inocente de en medio de ti, cuando hicieres lo que es recto en los ojos de Jehová.
10 And if when you go out to war against your enemies, the Lord your God should deliver them into your hands, and you should take their spoil,
Cuando salieres a la guerra contra tus enemigos, y Jehová tu Dios los diere en tu mano, y tomares de ellos cautivos,
11 and should see among the spoil a woman beautiful in countenance, and should desire her, and take her to yourself for a wife,
Y vieres entre los cautivos alguna mujer hermosa, y la codiciares, y la tomares para ti por mujer;
12 and should bring her within your house: then shall you shave her head, and pare her nails;
Meterla has en tu casa, y ella raerá su cabeza, y cortará sus uñas,
13 and shall take away her garments of captivity from off her, and she shall abide in your house, and shall bewail her father and mother the days of a month; and afterwards you shall go in to her and dwell with her, and she shall be your wife.
Y quitará de sí el vestido de su cautiverio, y quedarse ha en tu casa: y llorará a su padre y a su madre un mes de tiempo: y después entrarás a ella y tú serás su marido, y ella tu mujer.
14 And it shall be if you do not delight in her, you shall send her out free; and she shall not by any means be sold for money, you shall not treat her contemptuously, because you have humbled her.
Y será, que si no te agradare, dejarla has en su libertad, y no la venderás por dinero, y no mercadearás con ella, por cuanto la afligiste.
15 And if a man have two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him [children], and the son of the hated should be firstborn;
Cuando algún varón tuviere dos mujeres, la una amada, y la otra aborrecida, y la amada y la aborrecida le parieren hijos, y el hijo primogénito fuere de la aborrecida;
16 then it shall be that whenever he shall divide by inheritance his goods to his sons, he shall not be able to give the right of the firstborn to the son of the loved one, having overlooked the son of the hated, which is the firstborn.
Será que el día que hiciere heredar a sus hijos lo que tuviere, no podrá dar el derecho de primogenitura a los hijos de la amada delante del hijo de la aborrecida el primogénito.
17 But he shall acknowledge the firstborn of the hated one to give to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the first of his children, and to him belongs the birthright.
Mas al hijo de la aborrecida conocerá por primogénito para darle dos tantos de todo lo que le fuere hallado; porque aquel es el principio de su fuerza, el derecho de la primogenitura es suyo.
18 And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not listen to them;
Cuando alguno tuviere hijo contumaz y rebelde, que no obedeciere a la voz de su padre ni a la voz de su madre, y habiéndole castigado, no les obedeciere;
19 then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place:
Entonces tomarle han su padre, y su madre, y sacarle han a los ancianos de su ciudad, y a la puerta de su lugar,
20 and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveler and a drunkard.
Y dirán a los ancianos de la ciudad: Este nuestro hijo es contumaz y rebelde, no obedece a nuestra voz, es glotón y borracho.
21 And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and you shall remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.
Entonces todos los hombres de su ciudad le apedrearán con piedras, y morirá: y quitarás el mal de en medio de ti, y todo Israel oirán y temerán.
22 And if there be sin in any one, [and] the judgment of death [be upon him], and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:
Cuando en alguno hubiere pecado de sentencia de muerte, y hubiere de morir, colgarle has en un madero.
23 his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall by all means bury it in that day; for every one that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and you shall by no means defile the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.
No anochecerá su cuerpo en el madero, mas enterrando le enterrarás el mismo día, porque maldición de Dios es el colgado: y no contaminarás tu tierra, que Jehová tu Dios te da por heredad.
