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,
The Lord your God is going to lead you into the land that you are taking over in order to own it, and will drive out ahead of you many other nations: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations that are larger and stronger 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.
When the Lord your God has handed them over to you to defeat them, then you must set them apart for destruction. Don't make any peace treaty with them and don't show them any mercy.
3 No emparentarás con ellas. No darás tus hijas a sus hijos ni tomarás sus hijas para tus hijos,
Don't intermarry with them. Don't let your daughters marry their sons or have their daughters marry your sons,
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.
because they will lead your children away from following me to worship other gods. Then the Lord will be angry with you, and he will quickly come and kill 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.
On the contrary, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, knock down their idolatrous pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn down their idols.
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 the Lord your God's holy people. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special people, valued above all other peoples on 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 wasn't because there were so many of you that the Lord loved you more than any other nation, in fact he chose you though there were so few of you.
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.
However, because the Lord loved you and kept the promise he gave to your forefathers, He led you out by his power and rescued you from the prison-house of slavery, from the rule of Pharaoh, 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,
That's why you can be sure that the Lord your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps his agreement based on trustworthy love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.
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.
But he doesn't hesitate to pay back those who hate him by destroying them.
11 Por tanto, guarda el Mandamiento, los Estatutos y las Ordenanzas que hoy te ordeno para que los practiques.
So keep the commandments and rules and regulations that I'm giving you to follow today.
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 you listen to these regulations and are careful to observe them, then the Lord your God will keep his agreement and the trustworthy love that he promised to your forefathers.
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.
He will love you and bless you and give you many descendants. He will bless your children and the crops your land produces—your grain, new wine, and olive oil, the calves of your cattle herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that he promised your forefathers to give you.
14 Serás bendecido más que todos los pueblos. No habrá hombre ni mujer estéril entre ustedes, ni en tu ganado.
You will be blessed more than any other nation; none of you will be childless, and none of your livestock will fail to have young.
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 keep you from having any kind of sickness. He will not let you have any of the terrible diseases you saw in Egypt, but he will let all who hate you suffer from them.
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 are to destroy all the nations the Lord your God hands over to you. Don't look on them with sympathy. Don't worship their gods, for that will end up being a trap to you.
17 Si dices en tu corazón: Estas naciones son más grandes que yo, ¿cómo puedo desposeerlas?
You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than us. How on earth can we drive them out?”
18 No les temas. Recuerda bien lo que Yavé tu ʼElohim hizo con Faraón y con todo Egipto.
But don't be afraid of them. Make sure you remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and the whole of Egypt:
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 amazing tests you witnessed, the signs and miracles, the great power and incredible strength the Lord your God used to lead you out. The Lord your God is going to deal with all the nations you're currently afraid of in the same way.
20 Yavé tu ʼElohim enviará avispas contra ellos, hasta que perezcan los que queden escondidos de ti.
On top of this, the Lord your God will send the hornet against them until anyone who has survived and anyone hiding from you have been killed.
21 No desmayes ante ellos, porque Yavé tu ʼElohim está en medio de ti, ʼElohim grande y terrible.
Don't be frightened of these nations, for the Lord your God, who is with you, is a powerful and awesome 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.
The Lord your God will drive out these nations ahead of you in stages. You won't be able to get rid of them all at the same time, or you'd be overwhelmed by wild animals.
23 Yavé tu ʼElohim los entregará delante de ti, e infligirá derrota sobre ellos hasta que sean destruidos.
But the Lord your God will hand them over to you and throw them into a terrible panic, until they are wiped out.
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.
He will give their defeated kings to you to be killed, and even their names will be forgotten. No one will be able to withstand you; you will completely destroy 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.
You must burn the idols of their god. Don't desire the silver and gold that covers them. Don't take it or otherwise it will be a trap for you because the Lord your God detests anything to do with idols.
26 No introduzcas en tu casa alguna cosa repugnante para que no seas maldición. La aborrecerás y la repugnarás completamente, porque es maldición.
Don't bring any detestable idol into your house, otherwise you will treated just like it—by being set apart for destruction. You are to treat idols as totally despicable, and stay far away from them, because they are set apart for destruction.
