Deuteronomy 15
1 “At the end of seven years you make a release,
Al final de cada siete años, cancelarás las deudas.
2 and this [is] the matter of the release: every owner of a loan [is] to release his hand which he lifts up against his neighbor, he does not exact of his neighbor and of his brother, but has proclaimed a release to YHWH;
Así se hará: todo acreedor liberará lo que haya prestado a su vecino. No exigirá el pago a su prójimo ni a su hermano, porque se ha proclamado la liberación de Yahvé.
3 of the stranger you may exact, but that which is yours with your brother your hand releases,
De un extranjero podrás exigirlo; pero lo que sea tuyo con tu hermano, tu mano lo liberará.
4 except there is an end [when] no poor [are] with you; for YHWH greatly blesses you in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance to possess it,
Sin embargo, no habrá pobres con ustedes (porque Yahvé ciertamente los bendecirá en la tierra que Yahvé su Dios les da en herencia para que la posean)
5 only if you listen diligently to the voice of your God YHWH, to observe to do all this command which I am commanding you today.
si tan sólo escuchan diligentemente la voz de Yahvé su Dios, para cumplir con todo este mandamiento que hoy les ordeno.
6 For your God YHWH has blessed you as He has spoken to you; and you have lent [to] many nations, but you have not borrowed; and you have ruled over many nations, but they do not rule over you.
Porque el Señor, tu Dios, te bendecirá, como te ha prometido. Prestarás a muchas naciones, pero no pedirás prestado. Dominarás a muchas naciones, pero ellas no te dominarán a ti.
7 When there is with you any poor of one of your brothers, in one of your cities, in your land which your God YHWH is giving to you, you do not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your needy brother;
Si un pobre, uno de tus hermanos, está contigo dentro de cualquiera de tus puertas en tu tierra que Yahvé vuestro Dios te da, no endurecerás tu corazón ni cerrarás tu mano a tu hermano pobre;
8 for you certainly open your hand to him, and certainly lend him sufficiency for his lack which he lacks.
sino que le abrirás tu mano y le prestarás lo suficiente para su necesidad, que le falta.
9 Take heed to yourself lest there be a worthless word in your heart, saying, The seventh year [is] near, the year of release; and your eye is evil against your needy brother, and you do not give to him, and he has called to YHWH concerning you, and it has been sin in you;
Guárdate de que no haya un pensamiento perverso en tu corazón, diciendo: “El séptimo año, el año de la liberación, está cerca”, y tu ojo sea malvado contra tu hermano pobre y no le des nada; y él clame a Yahvé contra ti, y sea pecado para ti.
10 you certainly give to him, and your heart is not sad in your giving to him, for because of this thing your God YHWH blesses you in all your works and in every putting forth of your hand;
Ciertamente darás, y tu corazón no se entristecerá cuando le des, porque es por esto que Yahvé vuestro Dios te bendecirá en todo tu trabajo y en todo lo que pongas tu mano.
11 because the poor does not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding you, saying, You certainly open your hand to your brother, to your poor and to your needy one in your land.
Porque los pobres nunca dejarán de estar en la tierra. Por eso te ordeno que ciertamente abras tu mano a tu hermano, a tu necesitado y a tu pobre, en tu tierra.
12 When your brother is sold to you, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he has served you [for] six years, then in the seventh year you send him away free from you.
Si tu hermano, hombre hebreo o mujer hebrea, se vende a ti y te sirve seis años, al séptimo año lo dejarás libre de ti.
13 And when you send him away free from you, you do not send him away empty;
Cuando lo dejes libre, no lo dejarás ir vacío.
14 you certainly adorn him from your flock, and from your threshing-floor, and from your wine-vat; you give to him [from] that which your God YHWH has blessed you [with],
Le darás generosamente de tus rebaños, de tu era y de tu lagar. Le darás todo lo que el Señor, tu Dios, te haya bendecido.
15 and you have remembered that you have been a servant in the land of Egypt, and your God YHWH ransoms you; therefore I am commanding you this thing today.
Recordarás que fuiste esclavo en la tierra de Egipto, y que el Señor, tu Dios, te redimió. Por eso te ordeno esto hoy.
16 And it has been, when he says to you, I do not go out from you, because he has loved you and your house, because [it is] good for him with you,
Si él te dice: “No saldré de ti”, porque te ama a ti y a tu casa, porque está bien contigo,
17 then you have taken the awl, and have put [it] through his ear, and through the door, and he has been a perpetual servant to you; and you also do so to your handmaid.
entonces tomarás un punzón y se lo meterás por la oreja hasta la puerta, y será tu siervo para siempre. Lo mismo harás con tu sierva.
18 It is not hard in your eyes in your sending him away free from you; for [his worth has been] double the hire of a hired worker [when] he has served you six years; and your God YHWH has blessed you in all that you do.
No te parecerá duro cuando lo dejes libre de ti, porque ha sido el doble de un jornalero al servirte seis años. El Señor, tu Dios, te bendecirá en todo lo que hagas.
19 Every firstling that is born in your herd and in your flock—you sanctify the male to your God YHWH; you do not work with the firstling of your ox, nor shear the firstling of your flock;
Dedicarás a Yahvé, tu Dios, todos los primogénitos varones que nazcan de tu rebaño y de tus ovejas. No harás ningún trabajo con los primogénitos de tu rebaño, ni esquilarás a los primogénitos de tu rebaño.
20 you eat it before your God YHWH year by year, in the place which YHWH chooses, you and your house.
Lo comerás ante Yahvé vuestro Dios cada año en el lugar que Yahvé elija, tú y tu familia.
21 And when there is a blemish in it, [or it is] lame or blind, [or has] any evil blemish, you do not sacrifice it to your God YHWH;
Si tiene algún defecto — es cojo o ciego, o tiene cualquier defecto —, no lo sacrificarás a Yahvé vuestro Dios.
22 you eat it within your gates, the unclean and the clean alike, as the roe and as the deer.
Lo comerás dentro de tus puertas. Los impuros y los limpios lo comerán por igual, como la gacela y el ciervo.
23 Only, you do not eat its blood—you pour it on the earth as water.”
Sólo que no comerás su sangre. La derramarás en la tierra como si fuera agua.
