Deuteronomy 21
1 “When one is found slain, fallen in a field on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you to possess it, [and] it is not known who has struck him,
Cuando en la tierra que Yahvé tu Dios, te va a dar en posesión, fuere encontrado un hombre asesinado, echado en el campo, sin que se sepa quién lo mató,
2 then your elderly and yours [of those] judging have gone out and measured to the cities which [are] around the slain one,
saldrán tus ancianos y tus jueces, y medirán las distancias hasta las ciudades situadas alrededor del muerto;
3 and it has been, the city which [is] near to the slain one, even [the] elderly of that city have taken a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked with, which has not drawn in a yoke,
y los ancianos de aquella ciudad que esté más cercana al muerto, tomarán una ternera que todavía no haya sido empleada para el trabajo ni haya llevado yugo.
4 and [the] elderly of that city have brought down the heifer to a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded the heifer there in the valley.
Los ancianos de aquella ciudad llevarán la ternera al valle de un torrente, que no se cultiva y donde no se siembra, y allí en el valle le quebrarán la cerviz.
5 And the priests, sons of Levi, have come near—for your God YHWH has fixed on them to serve Him and to bless in the Name of YHWH, and by their mouth is every strife and every stroke—
Luego se acercarán los sacerdotes, los hijos de Leví, porque a ellos ha escogido Yahvé, tu Dios, para servirle y para bendecir en el nombre de Yahvé, y por su boca se decide toda controversia y todo caso de lesión corporal.
6 and all [the] elderly of that city, who are near to the slain one, wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,
Y todos los ancianos de aquella ciudad, es decir, los más cercanos al muerto, se lavarán las manos sobre la ternera a la cual le ha sido quebrada la cerviz en el valle;
7 and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen—
y responderán, diciendo: ‘Nuestras manos no derramaron esta sangre, ni nuestros ojos lo han visto.
8 receive atonement for Your people Israel, whom You have ransomed, O YHWH, and do not permit innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel; and the blood has been pardoned to them,
Expía, oh Yahvé, a tu pueblo Israel que Tú rescataste, y no imputes la sangre inocente a Israel tu pueblo.’ Y les será perdonada la sangre.
9 and you put away the innocent blood out of your midst, for you do that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH.
Así quitarás la sangre inocente de en medio de ti, haciendo lo que es recto a los ojos de Yahvé.
10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and your God YHWH has given them into your hand, and you have taken captive its captivity,
Cuando saliendo a la guerra contra tus enemigos, Yahvé, tu Dios, los entregare en tu mano y tomares de ellos cautivos,
11 and have seen a woman of beautiful form in the captivity, and have delighted in her, and have taken [her] to yourself for a wife,
si ves entre los cautivos una mujer hermosa, y enamorado de ella quieres tomarla por esposa,
12 then you have brought her into the midst of your household, and she has shaved her head, and prepared her nails,
la introducirás en tu casa, y ella se raerá la cabeza y se cortará las uñas.
13 and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and has dwelt in your house, and lamented her father and her mother [for] a month of days, and afterward you go in to her and have married her, and she has been to you for a wife.
Luego se quitará el vestido de su cautividad, y quedándose en tu casa llorará a su padre y a su madre durante un mes; y después de esto podrás llegarte a ella, y serás su marido, y ella será tu mujer.
14 And it has been, if you have not delighted in her, that you have sent her away at her desire, and surely you do not sell her for money; you do not tyrannize over her, because that you have humbled her.
Mas si después ella no te agrada más, la dejarás ir según su propia voluntad. No la venderás por dinero, ni la tratarás mal, pues la tuviste por mujer.
15 When a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and they have borne sons to him (the loved one and the hated one), and the firstborn son has been to the hated one,
Si un hombre tiene dos mujeres, la una amada y la otra desamada, y ambas le dan hijos, así la amada como la odiada, siendo primogénito el hijo de la desamada,
16 then it has been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he has, he is not able to declare firstborn the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one—the firstborn.
cuando reparta su herencia entre sus hijos no puede constituir primogénito al hijo de la amada, prefiriéndolo al hijo de la desamada, que en realidad es el primogénito;
17 But the firstborn, son of the hated one, he acknowledges, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he [is] the beginning of his strength; to him [is] the right of the firstborn.
sino que reconocerá por primogénito al hijo de la malquerida, dándole porción doble de todos sus bienes, porque él es el primogénito de su vigor; a él pertenece el derecho de la primogenitura.
18 When a man has a son apostatizing and being rebellious—he is not listening to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they have disciplined him, and he does not listen to them—
Si un hombre tiene un hijo contumaz y rebelde, que no quiere escuchar la voz de su padre ni la voz de su madre, y que aun castigado no les obedece,
19 then his father and his mother have laid hold on him, and they have brought him out to [the] elderly of his city, and to the gate of his place,
lo tomarán su padre y su madre, y lo llevarán ante los ancianos de su ciudad y a la puerta de su lugar,
20 and have said to [the] elderly of his city, Our son—this one—is apostatizing and being rebellious; he is not listening to our voice—a glutton and drunkard.
y dirán a los ancianos de su ciudad: ‘Este hijo nuestro es contumaz y rebelde, no quiere obedecer nuestra voz; es un disoluto y bebedor.’
21 Then all the men of his city have stoned him with stones and he has died, and you have put away the evil out of your midst, and all Israel hears and fears.
Y todos los hombres de su ciudad le apedrearán para que muera. Así extirparás el mal de en medio de ti; y todo Israel al oírlo temerá.
22 And when there is a sin in a man [with] a judgment of death, and he has been put to death, and you have hanged him on a tree,
Si uno, habiendo cometido un crimen capital, fuere muerto y colgado de un madero,
23 his corpse does not remain on the tree, for you certainly bury him in the day—for he who is hanged [becomes] a curse of God—and you do not defile your ground which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance.”
su cadáver no quedará durante la noche en el madero; antes lo enterrarás en ese mismo día; porque un colgado es objeto de la maldición de Dios; no has de contaminar la tierra que Yahvé, tu Dios, te da en heredad.
