Deuteronomio 7
1 Cuando Yavé tu ʼElohim te introduzca en la tierra a la cual entrarás para poseerla, y expulse de delante de ti a muchas naciones: al heteo, al gergeseo, al amorreo, al cananeo, al ferezeo, al heveo y al jebuseo, siete naciones mayores y más fuertes que tú,
“When the Lord your God will have led you to the land, which you will enter so as to possess it, and when he will have destroyed many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than you, and more robust than you,
2 y Yavé tu ʼElohim las entregue ante ti y las derrotes, las destruirás por completo. No harás pacto con ellas, ni les tendrás compasión.
and when the Lord your God will have delivered them to you, you shall strike them down unto utter annihilation. You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor shall you show any pity to them.
3 No emparentarás con ellas. No darás tus hijas a sus hijos ni tomarás sus hijas para tus hijos,
And you shall not associate with them in marriage. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor accept his daughter for your son.
4 porque apartarán a tu hijo de seguirme para servir a otros ʼelohim. La ira de Yavé se encenderá contra ustedes y los destruirá pronto.
For she will seduce your son, so that he will not follow me, and so that he will instead serve foreign gods. And the fury of the Lord will be enraged, and he will quickly destroy you.
5 Esto es lo que harán con ellos: demolerán sus altares, destruirán sus estelas, talarán sus Aseras y quemarán sus imágenes en el fuego.
So instead, you shall do this to them: overturn their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves, and burn up their graven images.
6 Porque tú eres un pueblo consagrado a Yavé tu ʼElohim. Yavé tu ʼElohim te escogió a ti de entre todos los pueblos de la superficie de la tierra para que seas un pueblo de su propia posesión.
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you so that you would be his particular people out of all the peoples who are upon the earth.
7 Yavé no se agradó de ustedes ni los escogió porque eran más numerosos que cualquiera de los pueblos, porque ustedes eran el pueblo más pequeño,
It is not because you surpass all the nations in number that the Lord has joined with you and has chosen you, for you are the least numerous of any people.
8 sino porque Yavé los ama, y quiso cumplir el juramento que hizo a sus antepasados. Yavé los sacó con mano fuerte y los redimió de la casa de esclavitud, del dominio de Faraón, rey de Egipto.
But it is because the Lord has loved you, and has kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers. And he has led you away with a strong hand, and he has redeemed you from the house of servitude, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt.
9 Reconoce que Yavé tu ʼElohim es fiel, que guarda el Pacto y la misericordia hasta 1.000 generaciones de los que lo aman y guardan sus Mandamientos,
And you shall know that the Lord your God himself is a strong and faithful God, preserving his covenant and his mercy for those who love him and those who keep his precepts for a thousand generations,
10 pero retribuye en sus caras a los que lo aborrecen hasta destruirlos. No demorará. Al que lo aborrece le dará el pago en su misma cara.
and promptly repaying those who hate him, so as to utterly ruin them, without further delay, quickly rendering to them what they deserve.
11 Por tanto, guarda el Mandamiento, los Estatutos y las Ordenanzas que hoy te ordeno para que los practiques.
Therefore, keep the precepts and ceremonies as well as the judgments, which I command to you this day, so that you may do them.
12 Entonces sucederá que por cuanto tú escuchas estos Decretos, los guardas y los practicas, también Yavé tu ʼElohim guardará contigo el Pacto y la misericordia que juró a tus antepasados.
If, after you have heard these judgments, you keep and do them, the Lord your God will also keep his covenant with you and the mercy that he swore to your fathers.
13 Te amará, te bendecirá y te multiplicará. Bendecirá también el fruto de tu vientre, el fruto de tu tierra, tu grano, tu mosto, tu aceite, las crías de tus manadas de ganado vacuno y el incremento de tu rebaño en la tierra que Él juró a tus antepasados que te daría.
And he will love you and multiply you. And he will bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land: your grain as well as your vintage, oil, and herds, and the flocks of your sheep, upon the land about which he swore to your fathers that he would give it to you.
14 Serás bendecido más que todos los pueblos. No habrá hombre ni mujer estéril entre ustedes, ni en tu ganado.
Blessed shall you be among all peoples. No one will be barren among you of either gender, as much among men as among your herds.
15 Yavé quitará de ti toda enfermedad y todas las malas plagas de Egipto que tú conoces, pero las cargará sobre todos los que te aborrecen.
The Lord will take all sickness away from you. And the very grievous infirmities of Egypt, which you have known, he will not bring upon you, but upon your enemies.
16 Destruye todos los pueblos que Yavé tu ʼElohim te entregue. No tengas compasión de ellos ni rindas culto a sus ʼelohim, porque eso será una trampa para ti.
You shall devour all the peoples, which the Lord your God will deliver to you. Your eye shall not spare them, neither shall you serve their gods, lest they be your ruin.
17 Si dices en tu corazón: Estas naciones son más grandes que yo, ¿cómo puedo desposeerlas?
If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are more than I am, so how will I be able to destroy them?’
18 No les temas. Recuerda bien lo que Yavé tu ʼElohim hizo con Faraón y con todo Egipto.
do not be apprehensive. Instead, recall what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all the Egyptians:
19 Las pruebas tremendas que vieron tus ojos, las señales y los portentos, la mano fuerte y el brazo extendido con el cual te sacó Yavé tu ʼElohim. Así hará Yavé tu ʼElohim a todos los pueblos de cuya presencia tengas temor.
the very great plagues, which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders, and the powerful hand and outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God led you away. So will he do to all the peoples, whom you dread.
20 Yavé tu ʼElohim enviará avispas contra ellos, hasta que perezcan los que queden escondidos de ti.
Moreover, the Lord your God will also send hornets among them, until he destroys and scatters all who have escaped from you, or who have been able to hide.
21 No desmayes ante ellos, porque Yavé tu ʼElohim está en medio de ti, ʼElohim grande y terrible.
You shall not fear them, for the Lord your God is in your midst: a great and terrible God.
22 Yavé tu ʼElohim expulsará a esos pueblos de delante de ti poco a poco. No podrás exterminarlos de inmediato, no sea que las fieras del campo sean demasiado numerosas para ti.
He himself will consume these nations in your sight, a little at a time, by degrees. You will not be able to destroy them all at once. Otherwise, the wild beasts of the earth might increase against you.
23 Yavé tu ʼElohim los entregará delante de ti, e infligirá derrota sobre ellos hasta que sean destruidos.
And so, the Lord your God will present them in your sight, and you shall slay them until they are thoroughly wiped away.
24 Él entregará sus reyes en tu mano, y destruirás sus nombres de debajo del cielo. Nadie te podrá hacer frente hasta que los destruyas.
And he shall deliver their kings into your hands, and you shall abolish their names from under heaven. No one will be able to withstand you, until you crush them.
25 Quemarás con fuego las esculturas de sus ʼelohim. No codiciarás la plata ni el oro que las recubre, ni te lo apropiarás, no sea que tropieces en ello, porque es repugnancia para Yavé tu ʼElohim.
Their graven images, you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or gold from which they have been made. And you shall not take for yourself anything from these, lest you offend, because this is an abomination to the Lord your God.
26 No introduzcas en tu casa alguna cosa repugnante para que no seas maldición. La aborrecerás y la repugnarás completamente, porque es maldición.
Neither shall you carry anything of the idol into your house, lest you become accursed, just as it also is. You shall detest it like dung, and you shall abominate it like defilement and filth, because it is an accursed thing.”
