Éxodo 21
1 Estas son las leyes que les has de dar:
And these are the laws of justice which thou shalt 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 shall he 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 came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was the husband of a woman, then shall his wife 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 should give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters: the wife and her children shall belong to her master, 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”,
And if the servant should plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; 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 shall his master bring him unto the judges, and he shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him till the jubilee.
7 Cuando un hombre vendiere a su hija por esclava, ella no saldrá como salen los esclavos.
And if a man sell his daughter for a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants go out.
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 please not her master, to whom he hath assigned her, then shall he aid her to be redeemed: unto a strange nation he shall have no power to sell her, seeing he hath dealt faithlessly with her.
9 Si la destina para su hijo, la ha de tratar según el derecho de las hijas.
And if he should assign her unto his son, then shall he do unto her after the right of the daughters.
10 Si toma para sí otra mujer, no le disminuirá la comida, ni el vestido, ni el deber conyugal.
If he take himself another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11 Y si él no quiere darle estas tres cosas, puede ella salirse, sin pagar nada, sin rescate.
And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out free, without money.
12 El que hiera mortalmente a otro, muera irremisiblemente.
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, 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 he did not lie in wait, but God let it come into his hand, then will I appoint thee a place whither 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.
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile, from my altar shalt thou take him, that he may die.
15 El que pegare a su padre o a su madre, muera irremisiblemente.
And he that smiteth 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 that stealeth a man, and selleth him, and he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.
17 El que maldijere a su padre o a su madre, muera sin remedio.
And he that curseth 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 strive together, and one smite the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but keepeth 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 rise again, and walk abroad upon his crutch, then shall he that smote him be quit; 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 smite his servant or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand, it shall be surely avenged.
21 Pero si sobreviviere un día o dos, no será castigado, por cuanto es hacienda suya.
Nevertheless, if he continue alive a day or two, it shall not be avenged; 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.
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her children depart from her, and yet no farther mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, [with a fine, ] according as the husband of the woman will lay upon him; and he shall pay this by the decision of the judges.
23 Pero si resultare daño, darás vida por vida,
And if any mischief follow, then shalt thou 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, bruise for bruise.
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 smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish, he shall let him go free for the sake of his eye.
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 strike out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth.
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.
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that he die: then shall the ox be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
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 were wont to gore in time past, and warning have been given to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, and he killeth a man or a woman: the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also should of right be put to death;
30 Si le imponen un precio de rescate, dará en rescate de su vida cuanto se le imponga.
But there shall be laid on him a sum of money in atonement, and he shall give the ransom of his life whatsoever may be laid upon him.
31 Si acornea a un hijo o a una hija, hágase con él según esta ley.
If he gore a son, or gore a daughter, according to this judgment shall be done unto 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 gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, thirty shekels of silver shall he give to his master, 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 open a pit, or if a man dig a pit, and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein:
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 make restitution in money unto the owner thereof; 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 hurt the ox of another, that he die: then shall they sell the live ox, and divide his money; and the dead ox also they shall 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.
But if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in: he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall belong to him.
