Levítico 25
1 El Señor le dijo a Moisés en el Monte Sinaí,
Yahweh said to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain,
2 “Dile a los israelitas: Cuando entren a la tierra que les daré, la tierra misma debe también observar un descanso sabático en honor al Señor.
“Tell the Israelis [that I, Yahweh, say this]: When you enter the land that I am about to give you, every seventh year you must honor me by [not planting any seeds. You will be] allowing the ground to rest.
3 Seis años puedes cultivar tus campos, cuidar tus viñedos y cosechar tus cultivos.
For six years you are to plant seeds in your fields and prune your grapevines and harvest the crops.
4 Pero el séptimo año ha de ser un sábado de completo descanso para la tierra, un sábado en honor al Señor. No planten sus campos ni cuiden sus viñedos.
But the seventh/next year you must [dedicate] to me, and allow your fields to rest. Do not plant seeds in your fields or prune your grapevines [during that year].
5 No cosechen lo que haya crecido en sus campos, ni recojan las uvas que no hayan cuidado. La tierra debe tener un año de completo descanso.
Do not reap [the grain] that grows in your fields without having been planted, or harvest the grapes that grow [without the vines being pruned]; you must allow the land to rest for that one year.
6 Pueden comer lo que la tierra produzca durante el año sabático. Esto se aplica a ti mismo, a tus esclavos y esclavas, a los trabajadores asalariados y a los extranjeros que viven contigo,
But you are permitted to eat whatever crops grow by themselves during that year without having been planted. You and your male and female servants, and workers whom you have hired, and people who are living among you temporarily are permitted to eat it.
7 y a tu ganado y a los animales salvajes que viven en tu tierra. Todo lo que crezca puede ser usado como alimento.
Also, [during that year] your livestock and the wild animals in your land are permitted to eat it.’
8 “Cuenta siete años sabáticos, es decir, siete veces siete años, para que los siete años sabáticos sumen cuarenta y nueve años.
‘Also, after every 49 years has ended, you must do this: (On the tenth day of the seventh month/At the end of September) [of the next/50th year], blow trumpets throughout the country, to declare that it will be a day on which you request that I forgive you for the sins that you have committed.
9 Luegohaz sonar la trompeta por todo el país el décimo día del séptimo mes, que es el Día de la Expiación. Asegúrate de que esta señal se oiga en todo el país.
10 Dedicarás el año cincuenta y anunciarás la libertad en todo el país para todos los que viven allí. Este será su Jubileo, cuando cada uno de ustedes vuelva a reclamar su propiedad y a formar parte de su familia una vez más.
Set apart that year, and proclaim that throughout the country, it will be a year of restoring the land and freeing people: All the people [who sold their property] will receive back the property that they previously owned, and slaves must be (freed/allowed to return to [their property and] their families).
11 El 50º año será un jubileo para ti. No siembren la tierra, no cosechen lo que haya podido crecer en sus campos, ni recojan las uvas de sus viñedos que no hayan cuidado.
That year will be a Year of Celebration; [during that year] do not plant anything, and do not harvest [in the usual way] the grain/wheat that grows without having been planted, or the grapes that grow without the vines being pruned.
12 Es un Jubileo y debe ser sagrado para ustedes. Podrán comer todo lo que produzca la tierra.
It will be a Year of Celebration, so eat [only] what grows in the fields (by itself/without any work being done to produce anything).
13 En este año jubilar, cada uno de ustedes volverá a su propiedad.
‘In that Year of Celebration, everyone must return to their own property.
14 “Si venden tierra a su vecino, o le compran tierra, no se exploten mutuamente.
‘If you sell some of your land to a fellow Israeli or if you buy some land from one of them, you must treat that person fairly:
15 Cuando compren a su prójimo, calculen cuántos años han pasado desde el último Jubileo, pues él les venderá según los años de cosecha que queden.
If you buy land, the price that you will pay will depend on the number of years there will be until the next Year of Celebration. If someone sells land to you, he will charge a price that is determined by the number of years until the next Year of Celebration.
16 Cuantos más años queden, más pagarán; cuantos menos años queden, menos pagarán, porque en realidad les está vendiendo un número determinado de cosechas.
If there will be many years before the next Year of Celebration, the price will be higher; if there will be only a few years until the next Year of Celebration, the price will be lower. [You could say that] what he is really selling you is the number of crops [which you can harvest before the next Year of Celebration].
17 No se exploten los unos a los otros, sino respeten a Dios, porque yo soy el Señor su Dios.
Do not cheat each other; instead, revere me. I, Yahweh your God, [am the one who am commanding this].
18 “Guarden mis reglas y observen mis mandamientos, para que puedan vivir con seguridad en la tierra.
‘Obey all my laws [DOU] carefully. If you do that, you will continue to live safely in your country [DOU].
19 Entonces la tierra producirá una buena cosecha, para que tengas suficiente comida y vivasseguro en ella.
And crops will grow well on the land, and you will have plenty to eat.
20 Pero si preguntas: ‘¿A qué iremos en el séptimo año si no sembramos o cosechamos nuestros cultivos?’
But you may ask, “If we do not plant or harvest our crops during the seventh year, what will we have to eat?”
21 Yo te bendeciré en el sexto año, para que la tierra produzca una cosecha que sea suficiente para tres años.
[My answer is that] I will bless you very much during the sixth/previous year, with the result that during that year there will be enough crops to provide food for you for three years!
22 Como sembrarán en el octavo año, seguirán comiendo de esa cosecha, que durará hasta su cosecha en el noveno año.
Then, after you plant seed during the eighth/next year [and wait for the crops to grow], you will eat the food grown in the sixth year, and continue to eat it until more food is harvested in the ninth year!
23 “La tierra no debe ser vendida permanentemente, porque realmente me pertenece. Para mí ustedes son sólo extranjeros y viajeros de paso.
‘You must not sell any of your land to belong to someone else permanently, because the land [is not yours, it]; is really mine, and you are only living on it temporarily and (farming/taking care of) it for me.
24 Así que cualquier tierra que compren, deben hacer arreglos para devolverlo a su dueño original.
Throughout the country that you will possess, you must remember that if someone sells some of his land to you, he is permitted to buy it back from you [if he wants to].
25 Si uno de los tuyos se vuelve pobre y te vende parte de su tierra, su familia cercana puede venir y comprar de nuevo lo que ha vendido.
‘So, if one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells some of his property [to obtain some money], the person who is most closely related to him is permitted to come and buy that land for him.
26 Sin embargo, si no tienen a nadie que pueda volver a comprarla, pero mientras tanto su situación financiera mejora y tienen suficiente para volver a comprar la tierra,
However, if a man has no one to buy the land for him, and he himself prospers again and saves enough money to buy that land back,
27 trabajarán cuántos años han pasado desde la venta, y devolverán el saldo a la persona que la compró, y volverán a su propiedad.
he must calculate how many years there will be until the next Year of Celebration. Then he must pay to the man who bought the land the money that he would have earned by continuing to grow crops on that land for those years.
28 Si no pueden reunir lo suficiente para pagar a la persona por la tierra, el comprador seguirá siendo su propietario hasta el Año Jubilar. Pero en el Jubileo la tierra será devuelta para que el propietario original pueda volver a su propiedad.
But if the original owner does not have any money to buy the land that he sold, it will continue to belong to the man who bought it, until the next Year of Celebration. In that year it must be returned to its original owner, and he will be able to live on it again.
29 “Si alguien vende una casa situada en una ciudad amurallada, tiene derecho a comprarla de nuevo durante un año completo después de venderla. Puede ser comprada de nuevo en cualquier momento durante ese año.
‘If someone who lives in a city that has a wall around it sells a house there, during the next year he will be permitted to buy it from the man who bought it.
30 Si no se recompra al final del año, la propiedad de la casa en la ciudad amurallada se transfiere de forma permanente al que la compró y a sus descendientes. No será devuelta en el Jubileo.
If he does not buy it during that year, it will belong permanently to the man who bought it and to his descendants. It must not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Celebration.
31 Pero las casas de las aldeas que no tienen muros a su alrededor deben ser tratadas como si estuvieran en el campo. Pueden ser compradas de nuevo, y serán devueltas en el Jubileo.
But houses that are in villages that do not have walls around them are considered to be as though they are in a field. So if someone sells one of those houses, he is permitted to buy it back at any time. And [if he does not buy it], it must be returned to him in the Year of Celebration.
32 “Sin embargo, los levitas siempre tienen el derecho de volver a comprar sus casas en los pueblos que les pertenecen.
‘If any descendants of Levi sell their houses in the towns in which they live, they are permitted to buy them back at any time.
33 Todo lo que los levitas poseen puede ser comprado de nuevo, incluso las casas vendidas en sus ciudades, y debe ser devuelto en el Jubileo. Eso es porque las casas en las ciudades de los levitas son lo que se les dio en propiedad como su parte entre los israelitas.
And because the houses in their towns are on land that [was given to them by] other Israelis, that land will become theirs again in the Year of Celebration [if they do not buy it back before then].
34 Sin embargo, los campos que rodean sus ciudades no deben ser vendidos porque pertenecen a los levitas permanentemente.
But the pastureland near their towns must not be sold. It must belong to the original owners permanently/forever.
35 “Si alguno de los tuyos se vuelve pobre y no puede subsistir, debes ayudarlos de la misma manera que ayudarías a un extranjero o a un extraño, para que puedan seguir viviendo en tu vecindario.
‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and is unable to buy what he needs [IDM], others of you must help him like you would help a foreigner who is living among you [DOU] temporarily.
36 No les hagas pagar ningún interés o exigir más de lo que pidieron prestado, pero respeta a tu Dios para que puedan seguir viviendo en tu zona.
[If you lend money to him], do not charge any kind of interest [DOU]. Instead, [show by what you do that you] revere me, your God, and help that man, in order that he will be able to continue to live among you.
37 No les prestes plata con intereses ni les vendas comida a un precio exagerado.
If you lend him money, do not charge interest; and if you sell food to him, [charge him only what you paid for it]; do not get a profit from it.
38 Recuerda, yo soy el Señor tu Dios que te sacó de Egipto para darte la tierra de Canaán y ser tu Dios.
[Do not forget that] I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God and to give you the land of Canaan, [and I did not charge you for doing that].
39 “Si alguno de los tuyos se hace pobre y tiene que venderse para trabajar para ti, no le obligues a trabajar como esclavo.
‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not force him to work like a slave.
40 Haz que vivan contigo como un trabajador asalariado que se queda contigo por un tiempo. Trabajarán para usted hasta el año del Jubileo.
Treat him like you treat workers that you hire or like someone who is living on your land temporarily. But he must work for you [only] until the Year of Celebration.
41 Entonces ellos y sus hijos deben ser liberados, y pueden volver a su familia y a la propiedad de su familia.
During that year, you must free him, and he will go back to his family and to the property that his ancestors owned.
42 Los israelitas no deben ser vendidos como esclavos porque me pertenecen como mis esclavos - los saqué de Egipto.
[It is as though] you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I [freed from being slaves] in Egypt. So none of you should be sold to become slaves.
43 No los traten con brutalidad. Tengan respeto por su Dios.
And do not treat the Israelis whom you buy cruelly; instead, revere me, your God.
44 “Compra tus esclavos y esclavas de las naciones vecinas.
‘If you want to have slaves, you are permitted to buy them from nearby countries.
45 También puedes comprarlos a los extranjeros que han venido a vivir entre ustedes, o a sus descendientes nacidos en tu tierra. Puedes tratarlos como tu propiedad.
You are also permitted to buy some of the foreigners who are living among you, and members of their clans that were born in your country. Then you will own them.
46 Puedes pasarlos a tus hijos para que los hereden como propiedad después de tu muerte. Puedes convertirlos en esclavos de por vida, pero no debes tratar brutalmente como esclavo a ninguno de tu propio pueblo, los israelitas.
They will be your slaves for the remaining years of your life, and after you die, it is permitted for your children to own them. But you must not act in brutal ways toward your fellow Israelis.
47 “Si un extranjero entre ustedes tiene éxito, y uno de los suyos que vive cerca se empobrece y se vende al extranjero o a un miembro de su familia,
‘If a foreigner who is living among you [DOU] becomes rich, and if one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to that foreigner or to a member of his clan/family,
48 todavía tienen derecho a ser comprados de nuevo después de la venta. Un miembro de su familia puede volver a comprarlos.
it is permitted for someone to pay for him to be freed. It is permitted for one of his relatives to pay for him to be released:
49 Un tío, o primo, o cualquier pariente cercano de su familia puede volver a comprarlos. Si tienen éxito, pueden volver a comprarse a sí mismos.
An uncle or a cousin or another relative in his clan may pay for him to be released. Or, if he prospers [and gets enough money], he is permitted to pay for his own release.
50 El interesado y su comprador calcularán el tiempo desde el año de la venta hasta el año del jubileo. El precio dependerá del número de años, calculado con la tarifa diaria de un trabajador asalariado.
The man who wants to pay for his own release must count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration. The price he pays to the man who bought him will depend on the pay that would be given to a hired worker for that number of years.
51 Si quedan muchos años, deberán pagar un porcentaje mayor del precio de compra.
If there are a lot of years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay for his release a larger amount of the money.
52 Si sólo quedan unos pocos años antes del Año Jubilar, entonces sólo tienen que pagar un porcentaje dependiendo del número de años que les queden.
If there are only a few years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay a smaller amount to be released.
53 Deben vivir con su propietario extranjero como un trabajador asalariado, contratado de año en año, pero procuren que el propietario no lo trate brutalmente.
During the years that he is working for the man who bought him, the man who bought him must treat him like he would treat a hired worker, and all of you must make sure that his owner does not treat him cruelly.
54 Si no son recomprados de ninguna de las maneras descritas, ellos y sus hijos serán liberados en el Año Jubilar.
‘And even if a fellow Israeli who has sold himself to a rich man is not able to pay for himself to be freed by any of these ways, he and his children must be freed in the Year of Celebration,
55 Porque los israelitas me pertenecen como mis esclavos. Son mis esclavos, yo los saqué de Egipto. Yo soy el Señor tu Dios”.
because [it is as though] you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from [being slaves in] Egypt.’”
