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.
And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and [the judges] judge, and 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.
then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, you shall lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.
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.
And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if you should scourge him [with] more stripes beyond these stripes, your brother will be disgraced before you.
4 No pondrás bozal al buey cuando trilla.
You shall not muzzle the ox that 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.
And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out [of the family] to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with 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 come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted 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 should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband's brother has refused.
8 Entonces los ancianos de aquella ciudad lo llamarán y hablarán con él. Si él se levanta y dice: No deseo tomarla,
And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not 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 his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Israel.
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 had 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,
And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her hand, and take hold of his private parts;
12 entonces le cortarás su mano. No le tendrás compasión.
you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not spare her.
13 No tendrás en tu bolsa pesa grande y pesa pequeña.
You shall not have in your bag various weights, a great and a small.
14 No tendrás en tu casa medida grande y medida pequeña.
You shall not have in your house various 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.
You shall have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that you may live long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.
16 Porque todo el que hace estas cosas, todo el que comete injusticia, es repugnancia ante Yavé tu ʼElohim.
For every one that does this [is] an abomination to the Lord your God, even every one that does injustice.
17 Recuerda lo que Amalec te hizo en el camino cuando salieron de Egipto,
Remember what things Amalec did to you by the way, when you went forth out of the land 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 withstood you in the way, and harassed your rear, [even] those that were weary behind you, and you did hunger and was weary; and he did not fear 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.
And it shall come to pass whenever the Lord your God shall have given you rest from all your enemies round about you, in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, you shall blot out the name of Amalec from under heaven, and shall not forget [to do it].
