Éxodo 21

1 Estas son las leyes que les has de dar:

Now these are the ordinances which thou shall set before them.

2 Cuando comprares un esclavo hebreo, te servirá seis años, más al séptimo saldrá libre sin pagar nada.

If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

3 Si entró solo, solo saldrá; si tenía mujer, saldrá con él su mujer.

If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4 Si su amo le dio mujer, y ella le dio (a su marido) hijos o hijas, la mujer y sus hijos serán de su amo, y él saldrá solo.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her sons shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

5 Mas si el esclavo dijere: “Amo a mi señor, y a mi mujer y a mis hijos, no quiero salir libre”,

But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons, I will not go out free,

6 su amo lo llevará ante Dios, y arrimándolo a la puerta o al poste de ella, su amo le horadará la oreja con una lezna; y así quedará esclavo suyo para siempre.

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

7 Cuando un hombre vendiere a su hija por esclava, ella no saldrá como salen los esclavos.

And if a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

8 Si no agrada a su señor que la había destinado para sí, permita él su rescate; mas no podrá venderla a gente extraña, por haberla engañado.

If she does not please her master, who has espoused her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.

9 Si la destina para su hijo, la ha de tratar según el derecho de las hijas.

And if he espouses her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the manner of daughters.

10 Si toma para sí otra mujer, no le disminuirá la comida, ni el vestido, ni el deber conyugal.

If he takes him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.

11 Y si él no quiere darle estas tres cosas, puede ella salirse, sin pagar nada, sin rescate.

And if he does not do these three things to her, then she shall go out for nothing, without money.

12 El que hiera mortalmente a otro, muera irremisiblemente.

He who smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.

13 Mas si no le hizo asechanzas, sino que Dios le dejó caer en su mano, para este tal Yo te señalaré lugar donde podrá refugiarse.

And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand, then I will appoint for thee a place where he shall flee.

14 Pero al que obrare con malicia contra su prójimo, matándole con alevosía, a ese lo arrancarás hasta de mi altar para matarlo.

And if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with guile, thou shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

15 El que pegare a su padre o a su madre, muera irremisiblemente.

And he who smites his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

16 Quien robare un hombre y le vendiere, o si fuere hallado todavía en su poder, muera irremisiblemente.

And he who steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

17 El que maldijere a su padre o a su madre, muera sin remedio.

And he who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

18 Cuando riñeren unos hombres y el uno hiriere al otro con piedra o con el puño, sin causarle la muerte, y si este después de hacer cama

And if men contend, and one smites the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed,

19 se levantare y anduviere fuera, apoyándose en su bastón, quedará libre aquel que lo hirió. Le pagará solamente el tiempo perdido y los gastos de su curación completa.

if he rises again, and walks abroad upon his staff, then he who smote him shall be acquitted. Only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

20 Quien hiriere con un palo a su siervo o a su sierva, de modo que muera bajo su mano, caerá irremisiblemente bajo la ley de venganza.

And if a man smites his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

21 Pero si sobreviviere un día o dos, no será castigado, por cuanto es hacienda suya.

Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.

22 Cuando hombres trabados en riña dieren un golpe a una mujer encinta, de modo que aborte, sin más daño, (el culpable) será multado conforme a lo que imponga el marido de la mujer y según determinen los jueces.

And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23 Pero si resultare daño, darás vida por vida,

But if any harm follows, then thou shall give life for life,

24 ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie,

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 quemadura por quemadura, herida por herida, contusión por contusión.

burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26 Si uno, hiriendo el ojo de su siervo o el ojo de su sierva lo destruyere, le dará libertad en compensación de su ojo.

And if a man smites the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

27 Asimismo, si hiciere saltar un diente a su siervo o un diente a su sierva, lo pondrá en libertad en compensación de su diente.

And if he knocks out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

28 Si un buey acornea a un hombre o a una mujer, con subsiguiente muerte, aquel buey será apedreado y no se comerá su carne, mas el dueño del buey quedará sin culpa.

And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.

29 Pero si el buey acorneaba ya desde tiempo atrás, y su dueño, a pesar de ser avisado, no lo tuvo encerrado, de modo que pudo matar a hombre o a mujer, el buey será apedreado, y también su dueño será muerto.

But if the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

30 Si le imponen un precio de rescate, dará en rescate de su vida cuanto se le imponga.

If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.

31 Si acornea a un hijo o a una hija, hágase con él según esta ley.

Whether it has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

32 Pero si el buey acorneare a un siervo o a una sierva, el dueño pagará treinta siclos de plata al dueño de ellos, y el buey será apedreado.

If the ox gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

33 Si uno deja abierto un pozo, o si uno cava un pozo y no lo tapa, y cayere en él un buey o asno,

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,

34 el propietario del pozo pagará indemnización en dinero al dueño de ellos, y el animal muerto será suyo.

the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner of it, and the dead beast shall be his.

35 Si el buey de uno hiere al buey de otro, y este muere, venderán el buey vivo partiéndose su precio, y también el buey muerto será dividido entre ellos.

And if one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it, and the dead they shall also divide.

36 Mas si era notorio que el buey acorneaba desde tiempo atrás y su dueño faltó en custodiarlo, este resarcirá el daño: buey por buey; mas el (buey) muerto será suyo.

Or if it be known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own.