Deuteronomio 25
1 Cuando hubiere pleito entre algunos y recurrieren al juez, se les juzgue, y sea absuelto el inocente y condenado el culpable.
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
2 Y si el culpable ha merecido ser azotado, el juez lo mandará tender en el suelo, y en su presencia le hará azotar a medida de su delito, contando los azotes.
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
3 No le hará dar más de cuarenta azotes, no sea que continúe dándole muchos azotes más y quede tu hermano deshonrado a tus ojos.
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile unto you.
4 No pondrás bozal al buey que trilla.
You shall not suppress the ox when he treads out the corn.
5 Si hermanos viven juntos y muriere uno de ellos sin tener hijos, la mujer del difunto no se casará fuera con un extraño, sino que su cuñado se llegará a ella y la tomará por mujer, cumpliendo con ella el deber del levirato.
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
6 El primogénito que ella diere a luz, será sucesor del nombre del hermano difunto, para que su nombre no se borre de Israel.
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
7 Pero si el hombre no deseare tomar a su cuñada, subirá esta a la puerta donde están los ancianos, y dirá: ‘Rehúsa mi cuñado resucitar el nombre de su hermano en Israel; no quiere cumplir conmigo el deber de levirato.’
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
8 Entonces le llamarán los ancianos de su ciudad y le hablarán; y si él persiste y dice: ‘No quiero tomarla’,
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
9 su cuñada se acercará a él y en presencia de los ancianos le quitará el calzado del pie, le escupirá en la cara y contestará diciendo: ‘Así se ha de hacer al hombre que no quiere edificar la casa de su hermano.’
Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
10 Y se le dará en Israel este nombre: La casa del descalzado.
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has his shoe loosed.
11 Si entre hombres que riñen, el uno con el otro, y la mujer del uno de ellos se acerca para librar a su marido de la mano del que lo golpea, y alargando la mano (contra este) le agarra por las partes vergonzosas,
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near in order to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets:
12 le cortarás a ella la mano; tu ojo no tendrá compasión.
Then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity her.
13 No tendrás en tu bolsa dos pesas: una grande y otra chica.
You shall not have in your bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14 No tendrás en tu casa dos medidas: una grande y otra chica.
You shall not have in your house divers measures, a great and a small.
15 Tendrás pesa exacta y justa; tendrás medida exacta y justa; para que vivas largo tiempo en la tierra que Yahvé, tu Dios, va a darte.
But you shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall you have: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
16 Porque abominable ante Yahvé, tu Dios, es todo el que hace tales cosas, todo el que comete iniquidad.
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD your God.
17 Acuérdate de lo que hizo Amalec en el camino, cuando saliste de Egipto,
Remember what Amalek did unto you by the way, when all of you were come forth out of Egypt;
18 cómo te salió al encuentro en el camino, y asaltó a tus rezagados, todos los débiles que iban atrás, estando tú fatigado y agotado; y cómo no tuvo temor de Dios.
How he met you by the way, and stroke the hindmost of you, even all that were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God.
19 Ahora bien, cuando Yahvé, tu Dios, te diere descanso de todos tus enemigos a la redonda, en el país que Yahvé, tu Dios, te dará en propiedad hereditaria, borrarás la memoria de Amalec de debajo del cielo. No lo olvides.
Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all of your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it.
