Deuteronomy 7
1 “Yahweh our God will bring you to the land that you will soon enter and occupy. As you advance, he will expel from that land seven people-groups that are more powerful and more numerous than you are. He will expel the Heth people-group, the Girgash people-group, the Amor people-group, the Canaan people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group.
Cuando Yahvé vuestro Dios te introduzca en la tierra a la que vas a entrar para poseerla, y eche a muchas naciones delante de ti — los hititas, los gergeseos, los amorreos, los cananeos, los ferezeos, los heveos y los jebuseos- siete naciones más grandes y poderosas que tú;
2 When Yahweh our God enables you to defeat [DOU] them, you must kill all of them. You must not make (an alliance/a peace treaty) with any of them. You must not act mercifully toward them.
y cuando Yahvé vuestro Dios las entregue delante de ti, y tú las golpees, entonces las derrotes por completo. No harás ningún pacto con ellos, ni te apiadarás de ellos.
3 You must not marry any of them. You must not allow your daughters to marry any of their sons or allow your sons to marry any of their daughters.
No harás matrimonios con ellos. No darás tu hija a su hijo, ni tomarás su hija para tu hijo.
4 Because, if you did that, those people would cause your children to stop worshiping Yahweh and to worship other gods. If that happens, Yahweh will be very angry with you and he will get rid of you immediately.
Porque eso haría que tus hijos dejaran de seguirme, para servir a otros dioses. Entonces la ira del Señor se encenderá contra ustedes, y los destruiría rápidamente.
5 This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their (altars/places for sacrificing animals), break apart the stone pillars [that are dedicated to their male god Baal], cut down the [poles that they use when they worship the goddess] Asherah, and burn their [wooden] idols.
Pero tú te encargarás de ellos de la siguiente manera: derribaréis sus altares, haréis pedazos sus columnas, cortaréis sus postes de Asera y quemareis sus imágenes grabadas con fuego.
6 You must do that because you are a group of people who belong to Yahweh our God. He has chosen you from among all the people-groups in the world to be his own special people.
Porque ustedes son un pueblo santo para el Señor, su Dios. El Señor, tu Dios, te ha elegido como pueblo propio, por encima de todos los pueblos que hay sobre la faz de la tierra.
7 “It was not because you were more numerous than any other people-group that Yahweh preferred you; you are one of the smallest people-groups on the earth.
Yahvé no puso su amor en vosotros ni te eligió porque fueras más numeroso que cualquier otro pueblo, pues vosotros erais el más pequeño de todos los pueblos;
8 Instead, it is because Yahweh loved you and because he wanted to do what he vowed to your ancestors. That is the reason that he rescued you by his great power [MTY], and freed you from being slaves [MTY] of the king of Egypt.
sino porque Yahvé os ama, y porque quiere cumplir el juramento que juró a vuestros padres, Yahvé os ha sacado con mano poderosa y os ha redimido de la casa de servidumbre, de la mano del faraón, rey de Egipto.
9 So do not forget that Yahweh our God is the only/true God. He will do what he agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love (for 1,000 generations/forever) all those who love him and who obey his commandments.
Sabed, pues, que el propio Yahvé, vuestro Dios, es Dios, el Dios fiel, que mantiene la alianza y la bondad amorosa hasta mil generaciones con los que le aman y guardan sus mandamientos,
10 But for those who hate him, he will (pay them back/do to them what they deserve); he will punish them and quickly get rid of them.
y devuelve su pago a los que le odian en la misma cara, destruyéndolos. No será indulgente con el que le odia. Se lo pagará en la cara.
11 “So you must be sure to obey all the commandments and rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.
Por lo tanto, guardarás los mandamientos, los estatutos y las ordenanzas que hoy te ordeno, para ponerlos en práctica.
12 If you heed these commands and obey them faithfully, Yahweh our God will do what he has agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love you, which is what he vowed to your ancestors that he would do.
Sucederá que, porque escuchas estas ordenanzas y las guardas y las pones en práctica, el Señor, tu Dios, mantendrá contigo el pacto y la misericordia que juró a tus padres.
13 He will love you and bless you. He will enable you to have many children [DOU]. He will bless your fields, with the result that you will have plenty of grain and [grapes to make] wine and plenty of [olive] oil. You will have many cattle and sheep. He will do all these things for you in the land that he promised to your ancestors that he would give to you.
Él te amará, te bendecirá y te multiplicará. También bendecirá el fruto de tu cuerpo y el fruto de tu tierra, tu grano y tu vino nuevo y tu aceite, el aumento de tu ganado y las crías de tu rebaño, en la tierra que juró a tus padres que te daría.
14 He will bless you more than he will bless any other people-group. All of you will be able to have/produce children [LIT]. All of your livestock will be able to produce offspring.
Serás bendecido sobre todos los pueblos. No habrá macho ni hembra estéril entre vosotros, ni entre vuestros ganados.
15 And Yahweh will protect you from all illnesses. You will not be afflicted with any of the dreadful diseases that [our ancestors knew about] in Egypt, but all your enemies will be inflicted with those diseases.
El Señor quitará de ti toda enfermedad; y no pondrá sobre ti ninguna de las malas enfermedades de Egipto, que tú conoces, sino que las pondrá sobre todos los que te odian.
16 You must get rid of all the people-groups that Yahweh our God will enable you to conquer. Do not [SYN] act mercifully toward any of them. And do not worship their gods, because if you do that, it would be like falling into a trap [from which you will never be able to escape].
Consumirás a todos los pueblos que el Señor, tu Dios, te entregue. Tu ojo no se compadecerá de ellos. No servirás a sus dioses, porque eso sería una trampa para ti.
17 “Do not think to yourselves, ‘These people-groups are more numerous/powerful than we are, so we certainly cannot [RHQ] expel them.’
Si dices en tu corazón: “Estas naciones son más que yo; ¿cómo podré despojarlas?”
18 Do not be afraid of them. Instead, think about what Yahweh our God did to the king of Egypt and to all the people whom he [ruled].
no les tendrás miedo. Recordarás bien lo que Yahvé vuestro Dios hizo al Faraón y a todo Egipto:
19 Do not forget the terrible plagues that your ancestors saw [Yahweh inflict on the people of Egypt], and the many [DOU] miracles [that he performed], and the very powerful [DOU, MTY] way by which he brought your ancestors out [of Egypt]. Yahweh our God will do the same kind of things to the people-groups that you are afraid of now.
las grandes pruebas que vieron tus ojos, las señales, los prodigios, la mano poderosa y el brazo extendido con que Yahvé vuestro Dios te sacó. Así hará Yahvé vuestro Dios con todos los pueblos de los que tienes miedo.
20 Furthermore, he will cause them to become terrified, and he will destroy those who remain alive and run away to hide from you.
Además, Yahvé vuestro Dios enviará el avispero entre ellos, hasta que los que queden, y se escondan, perezcan ante ti.
21 Do not be afraid of those people, because Yahweh our God will be with/among you. He is a great God; he is the one you should be afraid of.
No te asustarás de ellos, porque el Señor tu Dios está en medio de ti, un Dios grande y temible.
22 He will expel those people-groups gradually. You should not [try to] expel all of them at one time, because if you did that, the number of wild animals would quickly increase, [and you would not be able to get rid of them].
El Señor, tu Dios, expulsará a esas naciones ante ti poco a poco. No las consumirás de una sola vez, no sea que los animales del campo aumenten sobre ti.
23 Instead, Yahweh will enable you to defeat your enemies [one people-group at a time]. He will cause them to panic until they are destroyed.
Pero el Señor, tu Dios, las entregará delante de ti, y las confundirá con una gran confusión, hasta destruirlas.
24 He will enable you to defeat [IDM] their kings. After you kill them, their names will be forgotten {people will forget about them}. No people-group will be able to stop you; you will destroy all of them.
Entregará a sus reyes en tu mano, y harás que su nombre desaparezca de debajo del cielo. Nadie podrá presentarse ante ti hasta que los hayas destruido.
25 You must burn the wooden idols [that represent] their gods. Do not desire to take the silver or gold [decorations] that are on those idols, because if you take them for yourselves, they will be like a trap [to cause you to want to worship those idols]. Yahweh hates [the worship of those idols].
Quemarás con fuego las imágenes grabadas de sus dioses. No codiciarás la plata ni el oro que hay en ellas, ni lo tomarás para ti, para que no quedes atrapado en él; porque es una abominación para Yahvé vuestro Dios.
26 You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise [DOU] those idols, because they are things that [Yahweh] has cursed.”
No meterás una abominación en tu casa para que no seas anatema como ella. La aborrecerás por completo. La detestarás por completo, porque es anatema.
