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.
'When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,
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 hath come to pass, if the wrong-doer is to be smitten, that the judge hath caused him to fall down, and [one] hath smitten him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrong-doing, by 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 [times] he doth smite him — he is not adding, lest, he is adding to smite him above these — many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes.
4 No pondrás bozal al buey cuando trilla.
'Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
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.
'When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;
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 hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away 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 doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to 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,
and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire 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 hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother;
10 Se le dará este nombre en Israel: Casa del Descalzado.
and his name hath been called in Israel — The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.
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 hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets,
12 entonces le cortarás su mano. No le tendrás compasión.
then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.
13 No tendrás en tu bolsa pesa grande y pesa pequeña.
'Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
14 No tendrás en tu casa medida grande y medida pequeña.
Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, 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.
Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;
16 Porque todo el que hace estas cosas, todo el que comete injusticia, es repugnancia ante Yavé tu ʼElohim.
for the abomination of Jehovah thy God [is] any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.
17 Recuerda lo que Amalec te hizo en el camino cuando salieron de Egipto,
'Remember that which Amalek hath done to thee in the way, in your going out from 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.
that he hath met thee in the way, and smiteth in all those feeble behind thee (and thou wearied and fatigued), and is not fearing 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 hath been, in Jehovah thy God's giving rest to thee, from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — an inheritance to possess it — thou dost blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens — thou dost not forget.
