Deuteronomio 15
1 Al cabo de los siete años harás remisión.
“At the end of every seven years, you must (cancel all debts/tell people who owe you money that they do not need to pay it back).
2 Y esta es la manera de la remisión: Dejará a su deudor todo aquel que emprestó de su mano, con que adeudó a su prójimo: no lo tornará a demandar a su prójimo, o a su hermano; porque la remisión de Jehová es pregonada.
Do it like this: Each of you who has lent money to a fellow Israeli must cancel that debt. You must not insist that he pay it back. You must do that because Yahweh has declared that the debts must be canceled [every seven years].
3 Del extranjero tornarás a demandar: mas lo que tuviere tuyo tu hermano, soltarlo ha tu mano.
[During that year] you may require foreigners [who live among you] to pay what they owe you, but you must not try to require that any fellow Israeli pay you what he owes you.
4 Solamente porque no haya en ti mendigo: porque bendiciendo te bendecirá Jehová en la tierra, que Jehová tu Dios te da por heredad para que la poseas:
Yahweh our God will bless you in the land that he is giving to you. If you obey Yahweh our God and obey all the commandments that I am giving to you today, there will not be any poor people among you.
5 Si empero oyendo oyeres la voz de Jehová tu Dios, para que guardes y hagas todos estos mandamientos, que yo te mando hoy:
6 Porque Jehová tu Dios te bendijo, como te había dicho: y emprestarás a muchas gentes, mas tú no tomarás emprestado: y enseñorearte has de muchas gentes, y de ti no se enseñorearán.
Yahweh our God will bless you like he has promised to do, and you will [be able to] lend money to people of other people-groups, but you will not [need to] borrow from any of them. You will control [the finances of] many people-groups, but they will not control your [finances].
7 Cuando hubiere en ti mendigo de tus hermanos en alguna de tus ciudades, en tu tierra que Jehová tu Dios te da, no endurecerás tu corazón, ni cerrarás tu mano a tu hermano mendigo;
“In the towns that Yahweh our God is giving to you, if there are any Israelis who are poor, do not be selfish [IDM] and refuse [IDM] to help them.
8 Mas abriendo abrirás a él tu mano, y emprestando le emprestarás asaz lo que hubiere menester.
Instead, be generous [IDM] and lend to them the money that they need.
9 Guárdate que no haya en tu corazón perverso pensamiento, diciendo: Cerca está el año séptimo de la remisión: y tu ojo sea maligno sobre tu hermano menesteroso para no darle: que él clamará contra ti a Jehová y serte ha por pecado.
Be sure that you do not say to yourself, ‘The year when debts will be canceled is near, [so I do not want to lend anyone any money now, because he will not need to pay it back when that year comes].’ It would be evil to even think that. If you act in an unfriendly way toward a needy fellow Israeli, and give him nothing, he will cry out to Yahweh about you, and [Yahweh will say that] you have sinned [by not helping that person].
10 Dando le darás, y tu corazón no sea maligno cuando le dieres, que por esto te bendecirá Jehová tu Dios en todos tus hechos y en todo lo que pusieres mano.
Give freely to poor people and give generously [IDM].
11 Porque no faltarán menesterosos de en medio de la tierra, por tanto yo te mando, diciendo: Abrirás tu mano a tu hermano, a tu pobre, y a tu menesteroso en tu tierra.
If you do that, Yahweh will bless you in everything that you do. There will always be some poor people in your land, so I command you to give generously to poor [DOU] people.”
12 Cuando se vendiere a ti tu hermano Hebreo o Hebrea, y te hubiere servido seis años, al séptimo año le enviarás de ti libre.
“If any of your fellow Israeli men or women sell themselves to one of you [to become your slave], you must free them after they have worked for you for six years. When the seventh year comes, you must free them.
13 Y cuando le enviares de ti libre, no le enviarás vacío:
When you free them, do not allow them to go (empty-handed/without giving them anything).
14 Cargando le cargarás, de tus ovejas, y de tu era, y de tu lagar: en lo que te hubiere bendecido Jehová de ello le darás.
Give to them generously from the things with which Yahweh has blessed you—sheep, grain, and wine.
15 Y acordarte has, que fuiste siervo en tierra de Egipto, y que Jehová tu Dios te rescató: por tanto yo te mando hoy esto.
Do not forget that your ancestors were once slaves in Egypt, and Yahweh our God freed them. That is the reason that I am now commanding you to do this.
16 Y será, que si él te dijere: No saldré de contigo: porque te amó a ti y a tu casa, que le va bien contigo;
“But one of your slaves may say, ‘I do not want to leave you.’ He loves you and your family, because you have treated him well.
17 Entonces tomarás una lesna, y darás en su oreja y en la puerta; y serte ha siervo para siempre: así también harás a tu criada.
If he says that, take him to the door of your house and, [while he stands against the doorway], pierce one of his earlobes with (an awl/a sharp pointed tool). That will indicate that he will be your slave for the rest of his life. Do the same thing to any female slave [who does not want to leave you].
18 No te parezca duro, cuando le enviares libre de ti, que doblado del salario de mozo de soldada te sirvió seis años: y Jehová tu Dios te bendecirá en todo cuanto hicieres.
“Do not complain when you are required to free your slaves. [Keep in mind that] they served you for six years, and you paid them only half as much as you pay the servants that you hire. [If you free them, ] Yahweh our God will bless you in everything that you do.”
19 Todo primogénito que nacerá en tus vacas y en tus ovejas, el macho santificarás a Jehová tu Dios: no te sirvas del primogénito de tus vacas, ni trasquiles el primogénito de tus ovejas.
“(Set aside for/Dedicate to) Yahweh our God the firstborn male animals from your cattle and sheep. Do not force them to do any work for you, and do not (shear/cut off) the wool [of the firstborn animals to sell the wool].
20 Delante de Jehová tu Dios los comerás cada un año en el lugar que Jehová escogiere, tú y tu casa.
You and your family may [kill them and] eat their meat in the presence of Yahweh at the place that Yahweh chooses [for you to worship him].
21 Y si hubiere en él falta, ciego, o cojo, o cualquiera otra mala falta, no lo sacrificarás a Jehová tu Dios.
But if the animals have any defects, if they are lame or blind, or if they have any other serious defect, you must not sacrifice them to Yahweh our God.
22 En tus villas lo comerás, inmundo y limpio también comerán de él como de un corzo, o de un ciervo.
You may [kill and] eat [the meat of those animals] at your homes. Those who have done things that cause them to become unacceptable to God and those who have not done such things are permitted to eat that meat, just like anyone is permitted to eat the meat of a deer or an antelope.
23 Solamente que no comas su sangre: sobre la tierra derramarás como agua.
But you must not eat any of the blood; you must drain all the blood on the ground [when you kill those animals].”
