Deuteronomy 25
1 “When there is a strife between men, and they have come near to the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrongdoer,
Si hay un litigio entre hombres, y vienen a juicio y los jueces los juzgan, entonces justificarán al justo y condenarán al impío.
2 then it has come to pass, if the wrongdoer is to be struck, that the judge has caused him to fall down, and [one] has struck him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrongdoing, by number;
Si el impío es digno de ser azotado, el juez hará que se acueste y sea azotado delante de él, según su maldad, por número.
3 he strikes him forty [times]; he is not adding, lest he is adding to strike him above these many stripes, and your brother be lightly esteemed in your eyes.
No podrá condenarlo a más de cuarenta azotes. No deberá dar más, no sea que si da más y lo golpea más que esa cantidad de azotes, entonces tu hermano será degradado ante tus ojos.
4 You do not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
No pondrás bozal al buey cuando pise el grano.
5 When brothers dwell together, and one of them has died and has no son, the wife of the dead is not given to a strange man; her husband’s brother goes in to her, and has taken her to him for a wife, and performs the duty of her husband’s brother;
Si los hermanos viven juntos, y uno de ellos muere y no tiene hijo, la mujer del muerto no se casará fuera con un extraño. El hermano de su marido se acercará a ella y la tomará como esposa, y cumplirá con ella el deber de hermano de marido.
6 and it has been, the firstborn which she bears rises for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.
El primogénito que ella dé a luz sucederá en el nombre de su hermano muerto, para que su nombre no sea borrado de Israel.
7 And if the man does not delight to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife has gone up to the gate, to the elderly, and said, My husband’s brother is refusing to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he has not been willing to perform the duty of my husband’s brother;
Si el hombre no quiere tomar a la mujer de su hermano, la mujer de su hermano subirá a la puerta a los ancianos y dirá: “El hermano de mi marido se niega a levantar a su hermano un nombre en Israel. No cumplirá conmigo el deber de hermano de marido”.
8 and [the] elderly of his city have called for him, and spoken to him, and he has stood and said, I have no desire to take her.
Entonces los ancianos de su ciudad lo llamarán y hablarán con él. Si él se levanta y dice: “No quiero tomarla”,
9 Then his brother’s wife has drawn near to him before the eyes of the elderly, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who does not build up the house of his brother;
entonces la mujer de su hermano se acercará a él en presencia de los ancianos, le quitará la sandalia del pie y le escupirá en la cara. Ella responderá y dirá: “Así se hará con el hombre que no edifique la casa de su hermano”.
10 and his name has been called in Israel, The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.
Su nombre se llamará en Israel: “La casa del que se quitó la sandalia”.
11 When men strive together with one another, and the wife of one has drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his striker, and has put forth her hand, and laid hold on his private parts,
Cuando los hombres se peleen entre sí, y la mujer de uno se acerque para librar a su marido de la mano del que lo golpea, y saque la mano y lo agarre por sus partes íntimas,
12 then you have cut off her hand; your eye does not spare.
entonces le cortarás la mano. Tu ojo no tendrá piedad.
13 You do not have [both] a great stone and a small stone in your bag.
No tendrás en tu bolsa pesos diversos, uno pesado y otro ligero.
14 You do not have a great ephah and a small ephah in your house.
No tendrás en tu casa diversas medidas, una grande y otra pequeña.
15 You have a complete and just stone, [and] you have a complete and just ephah, so that they prolong your days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you;
Tendrás un peso perfecto y justo. Tendrás una medida perfecta y justa, para que tus días se alarguen en la tierra que el Señor tu Dios te da.
16 for anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.
Porque todos los que hacen tales cosas, todos los que actúan injustamente, son una abominación para el Señor tu Dios.
17 Remember that which Amalek has done to you in the way in your going out from Egypt,
Acuérdate de lo que te hizo Amalec en el camino cuando saliste de Egipto,
18 that he has met you in the way, and strikes among you all those feeble behind you (when you [were] weary and fatigued), and is not fearing God.
de cómo te salió al encuentro en el camino, e hirió a los últimos de vosotros, a todos los débiles que venían detrás, cuando estabas cansado y fatigado; y no temió a Dios.
19 And it has been, in your God YHWH giving rest to you from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance to possess it, you blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens—you do not forget.”
Por lo tanto, cuando el Señor, tu Dios, te haya dado descanso de todos tus enemigos alrededor, en la tierra que el Señor, tu Dios, te da en herencia para que la poseas, borrarás la memoria de Amalec de debajo del cielo. No lo olvidarás.
