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 Yavé tu ʼElohim te introduzca en la tierra a la cual entrarás para poseerla, y expulse de delante de ti a muchas naciones: al heteo, al gergeseo, al amorreo, al cananeo, al ferezeo, al heveo y al jebuseo, siete naciones mayores y más fuertes 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 Yavé tu ʼElohim las entregue ante ti y las derrotes, las destruirás por completo. No harás pacto con ellas, ni les tendrás compasión.
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 emparentarás con ellas. No darás tus hijas a sus hijos ni tomarás sus hijas para tus hijos,
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 apartarán a tu hijo de seguirme para servir a otros ʼelohim. La ira de Yavé se encenderá contra ustedes y los destruirá pronto.
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.
Esto es lo que harán con ellos: demolerán sus altares, destruirán sus estelas, talarán sus Aseras y quemarán sus imágenes en el 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 tú eres un pueblo consagrado a Yavé tu ʼElohim. Yavé tu ʼElohim te escogió a ti de entre todos los pueblos de la superficie de la tierra para que seas un pueblo de su propia posesión.
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.
Yavé no se agradó de ustedes ni los escogió porque eran más numerosos que cualquiera de los pueblos, porque ustedes eran el pueblo más pequeño,
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 Yavé los ama, y quiso cumplir el juramento que hizo a sus antepasados. Yavé los sacó con mano fuerte y los redimió de la casa de esclavitud, del dominio de 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.
Reconoce que Yavé tu ʼElohim es fiel, que guarda el Pacto y la misericordia hasta 1.000 generaciones de los que lo 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.
pero retribuye en sus caras a los que lo aborrecen hasta destruirlos. No demorará. Al que lo aborrece le dará el pago en su misma cara.
11 “So you must be sure to obey all the commandments and rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.
Por tanto, guarda el Mandamiento, los Estatutos y las Ordenanzas que hoy te ordeno para que los practiques.
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.
Entonces sucederá que por cuanto tú escuchas estos Decretos, los guardas y los practicas, también Yavé tu ʼElohim guardará contigo el Pacto y la misericordia que juró a tus antepasados.
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.
Te amará, te bendecirá y te multiplicará. Bendecirá también el fruto de tu vientre, el fruto de tu tierra, tu grano, tu mosto, tu aceite, las crías de tus manadas de ganado vacuno y el incremento de tu rebaño en la tierra que Él juró a tus antepasados 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 más que todos los pueblos. No habrá hombre ni mujer estéril entre ustedes, ni en tu ganado.
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.
Yavé quitará de ti toda enfermedad y todas las malas plagas de Egipto que tú conoces, pero las cargará sobre todos los que te aborrecen.
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].
Destruye todos los pueblos que Yavé tu ʼElohim te entregue. No tengas compasión de ellos ni rindas culto a sus ʼelohim, porque eso será 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 grandes que yo, ¿cómo puedo desposeerlas?
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 temas. Recuerda bien lo que Yavé tu ʼElohim hizo con Faraón y con 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 pruebas tremendas que vieron tus ojos, las señales y los portentos, la mano fuerte y el brazo extendido con el cual te sacó Yavé tu ʼElohim. Así hará Yavé tu ʼElohim a todos los pueblos de cuya presencia tengas temor.
20 Furthermore, he will cause them to become terrified, and he will destroy those who remain alive and run away to hide from you.
Yavé tu ʼElohim enviará avispas contra ellos, hasta que perezcan los que queden escondidos de 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 desmayes ante ellos, porque Yavé tu ʼElohim está en medio de ti, ʼElohim grande y terrible.
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].
Yavé tu ʼElohim expulsará a esos pueblos de delante de ti poco a poco. No podrás exterminarlos de inmediato, no sea que las fieras del campo sean demasiado numerosas para 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.
Yavé tu ʼElohim los entregará delante de ti, e infligirá derrota sobre ellos hasta que sean destruidos.
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.
Él entregará sus reyes en tu mano, y destruirás sus nombres de debajo del cielo. Nadie te podrá hacer frente hasta que los destruyas.
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 esculturas de sus ʼelohim. No codiciarás la plata ni el oro que las recubre, ni te lo apropiarás, no sea que tropieces en ello, porque es repugnancia para Yavé tu ʼElohim.
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 introduzcas en tu casa alguna cosa repugnante para que no seas maldición. La aborrecerás y la repugnarás completamente, porque es maldición.
