Éxodo 21
1 Estas son las Ordenanzas que les promulgarás:
“These are the judgments which you shall place before them:
2 Cuando compres un esclavo hebreo, servirá como esclavo seis años, pero al séptimo saldrá libre sin pagar.
If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you; in the seventh, he shall depart freely, without charge.
3 Si entró solo, saldrá solo. Si tenía esposa, entonces su esposa saldrá con él.
With whatever clothing he arrived, with the like let him depart. If he has a wife, his wife also shall depart, at the same time.
4 Pero si su ʼadon le dio esposa, y ella le dio a luz hijos o hijas, la esposa y sus hijos serán de su ʼadon; él saldrá solo.
But if his lord gave him a wife, and she has borne sons and daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her lord. Yet still, he himself will go out with his clothing.
5 Pero si el esclavo dice con insistencia: Yo amo a mi ʼadon, a mi esposa y a mis hijos. No saldré libre.
And if the servant will say, ‘I love my lord, and my wife and children, I will not depart freely,’
6 Entonces su ʼadon lo llevará ante los jueces, lo acercará a la puerta o a la jamba de la puerta. Su ʼadon le perforará la oreja con un punzón, y será su esclavo para siempre.
then his lord shall make an offering for him to the heavens, and it shall be applied to the door and the posts, and he will pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall be his servant in perpetuity.
7 Cuando un hombre venda a su hija como esclava, ella no saldrá libre como suelen salir los esclavos varones.
If anyone sells his daughter to be a servant, she shall not depart as a female servant is accustomed to go out.
8 Si no agrada a su ʼadon, quien la destinó para él como esposa, dejará que sea rescatada, y no tendrá autoridad para venderla a pueblo extranjero, porque la traicionó.
If she displeases the eyes of her lord, to whom she had been delivered, he shall dismiss her. But he shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, even if he despises her.
9 Si la destina para su hijo, hará con ella según la costumbre de las hijas.
But if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall treat her according to the custom with daughters.
10 Si toma otra esposa para él, no disminuirá a la primera su alimento, ni su ropa, ni sus derechos conyugales.
And if he takes another for him, he shall provide to the maiden a marriage, and clothing, and he shall not refuse the price of her chastity.
11 Si no hace ninguna de estas tres cosas con ella, entonces ella saldrá libre sin pagar dinero.
If he does not do these three things, she shall depart freely, without money.
12 El que hiera a un hombre y éste muera, ciertamente morirá.
Whoever strikes a man, intending to murder, shall be put to death.
13 Pero si no estaba al acecho, sino que ʼElohim permitió que cayera en su mano, entonces Yo te señalaré lugar adonde él puede huir.
But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands, then I will appoint for you a place to which he must flee.
14 Sin embargo, si un hombre se enfurece contra su prójimo y lo asesina con alevosía, hasta de mi propio altar lo podrás arrestar para que muera.
If someone murders his neighbor with deliberation, by lying in wait, you shall tear him away from my altar, so that he may die.
15 El que golpee a su padre o a su madre ciertamente morirá.
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.
16 El que secuestre a una persona, ya sea que la venda o sea hallada en su poder, ciertamente morirá.
Whoever will have stolen a man and sold him, having been convicted of the crime, shall be put to death.
17 El que maldiga a su padre o a su madre ciertamente morirá.
Whoever speaks evil of his father or mother shall die a death.
18 Si unos hombres pelean, y uno hiere a su prójimo con piedra o el puño, pero no muere sino cae en cama,
If men will have quarreled, and one of them has struck his neighbor with a stone or a fist, and he does not die, but lies in bed,
19 si se levanta, y puede entrar y salir sin su bastón, el que lo hirió será absuelto. Solo pagará por su tiempo de reposo y será responsable de que sea curado completamente.
if he gets up again and can walk outside on his staff, he who struck him will be innocent, but only if he makes sufficient restitution for his deeds and for the cost of the physicians.
20 Cuando alguno hiera a su esclavo o a su esclava con la vara, y muera bajo su mano, ciertamente será vengado.
Whoever strikes his male or female servant with a staff, and if they have died by his hands, he shall be guilty of a crime.
21 Pero si sobrevive un día o dos, no será vengado, porque él es propiedad suya.
But if he survives for one day or two, he shall not be subject to punishment, because it is his money.
22 Si unos hombres pelean, y golpean a una mujer embarazada de tal modo que ella da a luz prematuramente, y sin embargo, ella no tiene heridas, los culpables serán multados según lo que el esposo de la señora imponga sobre ellos y les sea impuesto por los jueces.
If men will have quarreled, and one of them has struck a pregnant woman, and as a result she miscarries, but she herself survives, he shall be subject to as much damage as the husband of the woman shall petition from him, or as arbitrators shall judge.
23 Pero si hay daño grave, entonces pagará vida por vida,
But if her death will have followed, he will repay a life for a life,
24 ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie,
an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,
25 quemadura por quemadura, herida por herida, contusión por contusión.
a scrape for a scrape, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise.
26 Cuando alguien hiera el ojo de su esclavo o el de su esclava, y lo inutilice, lo dejará en libertad por causa de su ojo.
If anyone will have struck the eye of his male or female servant, having left them with one eye, he shall release them freely, because of the eye that he has put out.
27 Si le saca un diente a su esclavo o a su esclava con un golpe, lo dejará en libertad por causa de su diente.
Likewise, if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female servant, he shall similarly release them freely.
28 Cuando un buey cornee a un hombre o a una mujer y muera, ciertamente el buey será apedreado y no se comerá su carne, y el dueño del buey no será castigado.
If an ox has struck a man or a woman with his horn, and if they die, it shall be stoned. And its flesh shall not be eaten; also, the owner of the ox will be innocent.
29 Pero si el buey era corneador desde antes, y a su dueño se le advirtió, pero no lo encerró, y mata a un hombre o una mujer, el buey será apedreado y también morirá su dueño.
But if the ox had been pushing with his horn, from yesterday and the day before, and they warned his owner, but he did not confine it, and it will have killed a man or a woman, then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner shall be killed.
30 Pero si se le impone un impuesto de rescate, entonces pagará por el rescate de su vida cuanto le sea impuesto.
But if they have imposed a price on him, he shall give, in exchange for his life, whatever is asked.
31 Si cornea a un muchacho o a una muchacha, se hará con él conforme a esta misma norma.
Likewise, if it has struck a son or a daughter with its horns, it shall be subject to a similar verdict.
32 Si el buey cornea a un esclavo o a una esclava, el dueño del buey pagará 330 gramos de plata al amo del esclavo, y el toro será apedreado.
If it attacks a male or female servant, he shall give thirty shekels of silver to their lord, yet truly the ox shall be stoned.
33 Cuando alguno destape un pozo o excave una cisterna y no la cubra, y caiga allí un toro o un asno,
If a man digs or opens a cistern, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
34 el dueño de la cisterna indemnizará. Pagará el dinero a su dueño, y lo muerto será suyo.
then the owner of the cistern shall repay the price of the beasts, and what is dead will belong to him.
35 Si el buey de alguno hiere el buey de su prójimo y muere, entonces venderán el buey vivo y partirán el dinero, y también partirán el buey muerto.
If the ox of a stranger wounds the ox of another, and it has died, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the price, but the carcass of the dead one they shall distribute between them.
36 Pero si era notorio que el buey era corneador desde antes, y su dueño no lo encerró, pagará buey por buey, y el buey muerto será suyo.
But if he knew that his ox had pushed with its horns, yesterday and the day before, and its owner did not confine it, then he shall repay an ox for an ox, and he will receive the whole carcass.”
