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,
Cuando se presente un pleito entre algunos, y acudan al tribunal para que los jueces los juzguen, éstos absolverán al justo y condenarán al culpable.
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 perverso merece ser azotado, entonces el juez ordenará que se acueste en tierra y sea azotado en su presencia, según el número de azotes que merezca su culpa.
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.
Podrá darle 40 azotes. No más, no sea que si aumentan mucho los azotes por encima de éstos, tu hermano se sienta degradado delante de ti.
4 You do not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
No pondrás bozal al buey cuando trilla.
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;
Cuando unos hermanos vivan juntos, y uno de ellos muera sin tener hijos, la esposa del difunto no se casará afuera con un hombre extraño. Su cuñado se unirá a ella y la tomará como esposa y cumplirá con ella el deber de hermano de su esposo.
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.
Al primogénito que ella dé a luz se le dará el nombre de su hermano difunto 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;
Pero si el hombre no quiere tomar a su cuñada, entonces ésta irá a los ancianos en la puerta de la ciudad y dirá: Mi cuñado se niega a perpetuar el nombre de su hermano en Israel. No quiere cumplir conmigo el deber de levirato.
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 aquella ciudad lo llamarán y hablarán con él. Si él se levanta y dice: No deseo 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 su cuñada se acercará a él en presencia de los ancianos, le quitará la sandalia del pie, lo escupirá en el rostro y dirá: ¡Así se hace al hombre que no edifica la casa de su hermano!
10 and his name has been called in Israel, The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.
Se le dará este nombre en Israel: Casa del Descalzado.
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,
Si dos varones luchan el uno contra el otro, y la esposa del uno se acerca para librar a su esposo del que lo ataca, y al meter ella su mano le agarra sus genitales,
12 then you have cut off her hand; your eye does not spare.
entonces le cortarás su mano. No le tendrás compasión.
13 You do not have [both] a great stone and a small stone in your bag.
No tendrás en tu bolsa pesa grande y pesa pequeña.
14 You do not have a great ephah and a small ephah in your house.
No tendrás en tu casa medida grande y medida 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 pesa y medida exactas y justas, para que tus días se prolonguen en la tierra que Yavé tu ʼElohim te da.
16 for anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.
Porque todo el que hace estas cosas, todo el que comete injusticia, es repugnancia ante Yavé tu ʼElohim.
17 Remember that which Amalek has done to you in the way in your going out from Egypt,
Recuerda lo que Amalec te hizo en el camino cuando salieron 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.
cómo te salió al camino y atacó a los rezagados entre los tuyos, que iban en tu retaguardia fatigados y cansados, y no tuvo temor a ʼElohim.
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 tanto, cuando Yavé tu ʼElohim te dé descanso de todos tus enemigos de alrededor, en la tierra que Yavé tu ʼElohim te da como heredad para que la poseas, borrarás la memoria de Amalec de debajo del cielo. No lo olvides.
