Deuteronomio 25
1 Cuando se presente un pleito entre algunos, y acudan al tribunal para que los jueces los juzguen, éstos absolverán al justo y condenarán al culpable.
If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
2 Si el perverso merece ser azotado, entonces el juez ordenará que se acueste en tierra y sea azotado en su presencia, según el número de azotes que merezca su culpa.
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 Podrá darle 40 azotes. No más, no sea que si aumentan mucho los azotes por encima de éstos, tu hermano se sienta degradado delante de ti.
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 to you.
4 No pondrás bozal al buey cuando trilla.
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn.
5 Cuando unos hermanos vivan juntos, y uno de ellos muera sin tener hijos, la esposa del difunto no se casará afuera con un hombre extraño. Su cuñado se unirá a ella y la tomará como esposa y cumplirá con ella el deber de hermano de su esposo.
If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother to her.
6 Al primogénito que ella dé a luz se le dará el nombre de su hermano difunto para que su nombre no sea borrado 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 quiere tomar a su cuñada, entonces ésta irá a los ancianos en la puerta de la ciudad y dirá: Mi cuñado se niega a perpetuar 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 to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.
8 Entonces los ancianos de aquella ciudad lo llamarán y hablarán con él. Si él se levanta y dice: No deseo tomarla,
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
9 entonces su cuñada se acercará a él en presencia de los ancianos, le quitará la sandalia del pie, lo escupirá en el rostro y dirá: ¡Así se hace al hombre que no edifica la casa de su hermano!
Then shall his brother’s wife come to 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 to that man that will not build up his brother’s house.
10 Se le dará este nombre en Israel: Casa del Descalzado.
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has his shoe loosed.
11 Si dos varones luchan el uno contra el otro, y la esposa del uno se acerca para librar a su esposo del que lo ataca, y al meter ella su mano le agarra sus genitales,
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets:
12 entonces le cortarás su mano. No le tendrás compasión.
Then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity her.
13 No tendrás en tu bolsa pesa grande y pesa pequeña.
You shall not have in your bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14 No tendrás en tu casa medida grande y medida pequeña.
You shall not have in your house divers measures, a great and a small.
15 Tendrás pesa y medida exactas y justas, para que tus días se prolonguen en la tierra que Yavé tu ʼElohim te da.
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 todo el que hace estas cosas, todo el que comete injusticia, es repugnancia ante Yavé tu ʼElohim.
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
17 Recuerda lo que Amalec te hizo en el camino cuando salieron de Egipto,
Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you were come forth out of Egypt;
18 cómo te salió al camino y atacó a los rezagados entre los tuyos, que iban en tu retaguardia fatigados y cansados, y no tuvo temor a ʼElohim.
How he met you by the way, and smote the hindmost of you, even all that were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God.
19 Por tanto, cuando Yavé tu ʼElohim te dé descanso de todos tus enemigos de alrededor, en la tierra que Yavé tu ʼElohim te da como heredad para que la poseas, 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 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.
