Éxodo 21
1 Estas son las Ordenanzas que les promulgarás:
“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set 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, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
3 Si entró solo, saldrá solo. Si tenía esposa, entonces su esposa saldrá con él.
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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.
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
5 Pero si el esclavo dice con insistencia: Yo amo a mi ʼadon, a mi esposa y a mis hijos. No saldré libre.
But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’
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 master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7 Cuando un hombre venda a su hija como esclava, ella no saldrá libre como suelen salir los esclavos varones.
“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
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 doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9 Si la destina para su hijo, hará con ella según la costumbre de las hijas.
If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
10 Si toma otra esposa para él, no disminuirá a la primera su alimento, ni su ropa, ni sus derechos conyugales.
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
11 Si no hace ninguna de estas tres cosas con ella, entonces ella saldrá libre sin pagar dinero.
If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
12 El que hiera a un hombre y éste muera, ciertamente morirá.
“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely 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 not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall 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 a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbour to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15 El que golpee a su padre o a su madre ciertamente morirá.
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
16 El que secuestre a una persona, ya sea que la venda o sea hallada en su poder, ciertamente morirá.
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 El que maldiga a su padre o a su madre ciertamente morirá.
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to 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 quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to 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 rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
20 Cuando alguno hiera a su esclavo o a su esclava con la vara, y muera bajo su mano, ciertamente será vengado.
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
21 Pero si sobrevive un día o dos, no será vengado, porque él es propiedad suya.
Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
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 fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.
23 Pero si hay daño grave, entonces pagará vida por vida,
But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
24 ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 quemadura por quemadura, herida por herida, contusión por contusión.
burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for 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 a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
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.
If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
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 a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
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 bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
30 Pero si se le impone un impuesto de rescate, entonces pagará por el rescate de su vida cuanto le sea impuesto.
If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
31 Si cornea a un muchacho o a una muchacha, se hará con él conforme a esta misma norma.
Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgement it shall be done to him.
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 the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and 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 opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
34 el dueño de la cisterna indemnizará. Pagará el dinero a su dueño, y lo muerto será suyo.
the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
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 one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
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.
Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
