Éxodo 21
1 “Éstas son las ordenanzas que les pondrás delante:
And these [are] the ordinances which you shall set before them.
2 “Si compras un siervo hebreo, servirá seis años, y al séptimo saldrá libre sin pagar nada.
If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.
3 Si entra solo, saldrá solo. Si está casado, su mujer saldrá con él.
If he should have come in alone, he shall also go forth alone; and if his wife should have gone in together with him, his wife also shall go out.
4 Si su amo le da una esposa y ella le da hijos o hijas, la esposa y sus hijos serán de su amo, y él saldrá solo.
Moreover, if his master give him a wife, and she have [born] him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master's; and he shall go forth alone.
5 Pero si el siervo dice claramente: “Amo a mi amo, a mi mujer y a mis hijos. No saldré libre;’
And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I will not go away free;
6 entonces su amo lo llevará a Dios, y lo traerá a la puerta o al poste de la puerta, y su amo le perforará la oreja con un punzón, y le servirá para siempre.
his master shall bring him to the judgment-seat of God, and then shall he bring him to the door, —to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
7 “Si un hombre vende a su hija para que sea sierva, no saldrá como los siervos.
And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart.
8 Si no le gusta a su amo, que la ha casado consigo, entonces la dejará rescatar. No tendrá derecho a venderla a un pueblo extranjero, ya que ha actuado con engaño con ella.
If she be not pleasing to her master, after she has betrothed herself to him, he shall let her go free; but he is not at liberty to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has trifled with her.
9 Si la casa con su hijo, la tratará como a una hija.
And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her according to the right of daughters.
10 Si toma otra esposa para sí, no disminuirá su comida, su ropa ni sus derechos matrimoniales.
And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship [with him].
11 Si no hace estas tres cosas por ella, podrá quedar libre sin pagar nada.
And if he will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free without money.
12 “El que golpee a un hombre de modo que muera, será ciertamente condenado a muerte,
And if any man strike another and he die, let him be certainly put to death.
13 pero no si es involuntario, sino que Dios permite que ocurra; entonces te designaré un lugar donde huirá.
But as for him that did it not willingly, but God delivered him into his hands, I will give you a place whither the slayer may flee.
14 Si un hombre trama y se acerca presuntuosamente a su prójimo para matarlo, lo sacarás de mi altar para que muera.
And if any one lie in wait for his neighbor to kill him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from my altar to put him to death.
15 “Cualquiera que ataque a su padre o a su madre será condenado a muerte.
Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death.
16 “Cualquiera que secuestre a alguien y lo venda, o si lo encuentra en su mano, será condenado a muerte.
He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.
17 “Cualquiera que maldiga a su padre o a su madre será condenado a muerte.
Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him certainly die.
18 “Si los hombres riñen y uno golpea al otro con una piedra o con su puño, y no muere, sino que queda confinado en la cama;
And if two men revile each other and strike the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;
19 si se levanta de nuevo y camina con su bastón, entonces el que lo golpeó quedará libre de culpa; sólo que pagará por la pérdida de su tiempo, y proveerá a su curación hasta que esté completamente curado.
if the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.
20 “Si un hombre golpea a su siervo o a su sierva con una vara, y éste muere bajo su mano, el hombre será castigado.
And if a man strike his man-servant or his maidservant, with a rod, and [the party] die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.
21 Sin embargo, si su siervo se levanta después de uno o dos días, no será castigado, porque el siervo es de su propiedad.
But if [the servant] continue to live a day or two, let not [the master] be punished; for he is his money.
22 “Si los hombres pelean y hieren a una mujer embarazada de modo que dé a luz prematuramente, y sin embargo no se produce ningún daño, se le impondrá la multa que el marido de la mujer exija y los jueces permitan.
And if two men strive and strike a woman with child, and her child be born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman's husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation.
23 Pero si se produce algún daño, entonces hay que quitar vida por vida,
But if it be perfectly formed, he 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 y contusión por contusión.
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 “Si un hombre golpea el ojo de su siervo o de su sierva y lo destruye, lo dejará libre por su ojo.
And if one strike the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his maidservant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their eye's sake.
27 Si golpea el diente de su siervo o de su sierva, lo dejará libre por su diente.
And if he should strike out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall send them away free for their tooth's sake.
28 “Si un toro mata a un hombre o a una mujer de una cornada, el toro será apedreado y su carne no se comerá; pero el dueño del toro no será responsable.
And if a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.
29 Pero si el toro ha tenido la costumbre de cornear en el pasado, y esto ha sido atestiguado a su dueño, y éste no lo ha guardado, pero ha matado a un hombre o a una mujer, el toro será apedreado, y su dueño también será condenado a muerte.
But if the bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.
30 Si se le impone un rescate, deberá dar por la redención de su vida lo que se le imponga.
And if a ransom should be imposed on him, he shall pay for the ransom of his soul as much as they shall lay upon him.
31 Tanto si ha corneado a un hijo como si ha corneado a una hija, según este juicio se hará con él.
And if [the bull] gore a son or daughter, let them do to him according to this ordinance.
32 Si el toro cornea a un siervo o a una sierva, se darán treinta siclos de plata a su amo, y el buey será apedreado.
And if the bull gore a man-servant or maidservant, he shall pay to their master thirty silver didrachmas, and the bull shall be stoned.
33 “Si un hombre abre una fosa, o si un hombre cava una fosa y no la cubre, y un toro o un asno cae en ella,
And if any one open a pit or dig a cavity in stone, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall in there,
34 el dueño de la fosa deberá repararla. Dará dinero a su dueño, y el animal muerto será suyo.
the owner of the pit shall make compensation; he shall give money to their owner, and the dead shall be his own.
35 “Si el toro de un hombre hiere al de otro, de modo que muera, entonces venderán el toro vivo y dividirán su precio; y también dividirán el animal muerto.
And if any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbor, and it die, they shall sell the living bull and divide the money, and they shall divide the dead bull.
36 O si se sabe que el toro tenía la costumbre de corneado en el pasado, y su dueño no lo ha guardado, pagará ciertamente toro por toro, y el animal muerto será suyo.
But if the bull be known to have been given to goring in time past, and they have testified to his owner, and he have not removed him, he shall repay bull for bull, but the dead shall be his own.
