Deuteronomio 7
1 Cuando Jehová tu Dios te hubiere metido en la tierra en la cual tú has de entrar para heredarla, y hubiere echado las muchas gentes de delante de tu presencia, al Jetteo, y al Gergeseo, y al Amorreo, y al Cananeo, y al Ferezeo, y al Heveo, y al Jebuseo, siete naciones muchas y fuertes más que tú;
“Yahweh our God will bring you to the land that you will soon enter and occupy. As you advance, he will expel from that land seven people-groups that are more powerful and more numerous than you are. He will expel the Heth people-group, the Girgash people-group, the Amor people-group, the Canaan people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group.
2 Y Jehová tu Dios las hubiere entregado delante de ti, y las hirieres, destruyendo las destruirás: no harás con ellos alianza, ni los tomarás a merced:
When Yahweh our God enables you to defeat [DOU] them, you must kill all of them. You must not make (an alliance/a peace treaty) with any of them. You must not act mercifully toward them.
3 Y no consuegrarás con ellos: no darás tu hija a su hijo, ni tomarás su hija para tu hijo;
You must not marry any of them. You must not allow your daughters to marry any of their sons or allow your sons to marry any of their daughters.
4 Porque tirará a tu hijo de en pos de mí, y servirán a dioses ajenos; y el furor de Jehová se encenderá sobre vosotros, y destruirte ha presto.
Because, if you did that, those people would cause your children to stop worshiping Yahweh and to worship other gods. If that happens, Yahweh will be very angry with you and he will get rid of you immediately.
5 Sino así haréis con ellos: Sus altares destruiréis, y sus estatuas quebraréis, y cortaréis sus bosques, y sus esculturas quemaréis en el fuego.
This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their (altars/places for sacrificing animals), break apart the stone pillars [that are dedicated to their male god Baal], cut down the [poles that they use when they worship the goddess] Asherah, and burn their [wooden] idols.
6 Porque tú eres pueblo santo a Jehová tu Dios: Jehová tu Dios te ha escogido para ser a él un pueblo singular más que todos los pueblos, que están sobre la haz de la tierra.
You must do that because you are a group of people who belong to Yahweh our God. He has chosen you from among all the people-groups in the world to be his own special people.
7 No por ser vosotros más que todos los pueblos, os ha codiciado Jehová, y os ha escogido: porque vosotros eráis los más pocos de todos los pueblos:
“It was not because you were more numerous than any other people-group that Yahweh preferred you; you are one of the smallest people-groups on the earth.
8 Mas porque Jehová os amó, y quiso guardar el juramento que juró a vuestros padres, os sacó Jehová con mano fuerte, y os rescató de casa de siervos, de la mano de Faraón rey de Egipto.
Instead, it is because Yahweh loved you and because he wanted to do what he vowed to your ancestors. That is the reason that he rescued you by his great power [MTY], and freed you from being slaves [MTY] of the king of Egypt.
9 Y para que sepas que Jehová tu Dios es Dios, Dios fiel, que guarda el concierto y la misericordia a los que le aman, y guardan sus mandamientos hasta las mil generaciones:
So do not forget that Yahweh our God is the only/true God. He will do what he agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love (for 1,000 generations/forever) all those who love him and who obey his commandments.
10 Y que paga en su cara al que le aborrece, destruyéndole: ni dilatará al que le aborrece, en su cara le pagará.
But for those who hate him, he will (pay them back/do to them what they deserve); he will punish them and quickly get rid of them.
11 Guarda pues los mandamientos, y estatutos, y derechos que yo te mando hoy que hagas.
“So you must be sure to obey all the commandments and rules and regulations that I am giving to you today.
12 Y será, que por haber oído estos derechos, y guardado, y hécholos, Jehová tu Dios guardará contigo el concierto y la misericordia, que juró a tus padres:
If you heed these commands and obey them faithfully, Yahweh our God will do what he has agreed to do for you, and he will faithfully love you, which is what he vowed to your ancestors that he would do.
13 Y amarte ha, y bendecirte ha, y multiplicarte ha: y bendecirá el fruto de tu vientre, y el fruto de tu tierra, y tu grano, y tu mosto, y tu aceite, la cria de tus vacas, y los rebaños de tus ovejas en la tierra, que juró a tus padres que te daría.
He will love you and bless you. He will enable you to have many children [DOU]. He will bless your fields, with the result that you will have plenty of grain and [grapes to make] wine and plenty of [olive] oil. You will have many cattle and sheep. He will do all these things for you in the land that he promised to your ancestors that he would give to you.
14 Bendito serás más que todos los pueblos: no habrá en ti estéril macho ni hembra, ni en tus bestias.
He will bless you more than he will bless any other people-group. All of you will be able to have/produce children [LIT]. All of your livestock will be able to produce offspring.
15 Y quitará de ti Jehová toda enfermedad, y todas las malas plagas de Egipto, que tú sabes: no las pondrá sobre ti, antes las pondrá sobre todos los que te aborrecieren.
And Yahweh will protect you from all illnesses. You will not be afflicted with any of the dreadful diseases that [our ancestors knew about] in Egypt, but all your enemies will be inflicted with those diseases.
16 Y consumirás a todos los pueblos, que Jehová tu Dios te da: no los perdonará tu ojo: no servirás a sus dioses, que te será tropezón.
You must get rid of all the people-groups that Yahweh our God will enable you to conquer. Do not [SYN] act mercifully toward any of them. And do not worship their gods, because if you do that, it would be like falling into a trap [from which you will never be able to escape].
17 Cuando dijeres en tu corazón: Aquellas gentes son muchas más que yo, ¿cómo las podré yo desarraigar?
“Do not think to yourselves, ‘These people-groups are more numerous/powerful than we are, so we certainly cannot [RHQ] expel them.’
18 No tengas temor de ellos, acuérdate bien de lo que hizo Jehová tu Dios con Faraón, y con todo Egipto:
Do not be afraid of them. Instead, think about what Yahweh our God did to the king of Egypt and to all the people whom he [ruled].
19 De las grandes pruebas que vieron tus ojos, y de las señales y milagros, y de la mano fuerte, y brazo extendido con que Jehová tu Dios te sacó: así hará Jehová tu Dios con todos los pueblos de cuya presencia tú temieres.
Do not forget the terrible plagues that your ancestors saw [Yahweh inflict on the people of Egypt], and the many [DOU] miracles [that he performed], and the very powerful [DOU, MTY] way by which he brought your ancestors out [of Egypt]. Yahweh our God will do the same kind of things to the people-groups that you are afraid of now.
20 Y también enviará Jehová tu Dios sobre ellos avispas hasta que perezcan los que quedaren, y los que se hubieren escondido de delante de ti.
Furthermore, he will cause them to become terrified, and he will destroy those who remain alive and run away to hide from you.
21 No desmayes delante de ellos, que Jehová tu Dios está en medio de ti, Dios grande y temeroso.
Do not be afraid of those people, because Yahweh our God will be with/among you. He is a great God; he is the one you should be afraid of.
22 Y Jehová tu Dios echará estas gentes de delante de ti poco a poco: no las podrás acabar luego: porque las bestias del campo no se aumenten contra ti.
He will expel those people-groups gradually. You should not [try to] expel all of them at one time, because if you did that, the number of wild animals would quickly increase, [and you would not be able to get rid of them].
23 Mas Jehová tu Dios las entregará delante de ti, y él las quebrantará de un gran quebrantamiento, hasta que sean destruidos.
Instead, Yahweh will enable you to defeat your enemies [one people-group at a time]. He will cause them to panic until they are destroyed.
24 Y él entregará sus reyes en tu mano, y tú destruirás el nombre de ellos de debajo del cielo: nadie parará delante de ti hasta que los destruyas.
He will enable you to defeat [IDM] their kings. After you kill them, their names will be forgotten {people will forget about them}. No people-group will be able to stop you; you will destroy all of them.
25 Las esculturas de sus dioses quemarás en el fuego, no codiciarás plata ni oro de sobre ellas para tomártelo, porque no tropieces en ello, porque es abominación a Jehová tu Dios.
You must burn the wooden idols [that represent] their gods. Do not desire to take the silver or gold [decorations] that are on those idols, because if you take them for yourselves, they will be like a trap [to cause you to want to worship those idols]. Yahweh hates [the worship of those idols].
26 Y no meterás abominación en tu casa, porque no seas tú anatema como ello: aborreciendo lo aborrecerás, y abominando lo abominarás, porque es anatema.
You must not bring any of those disgusting idols into your houses, because if you do that, God will curse you like he curses them. You must hate and despise [DOU] those idols, because they are things that [Yahweh] has cursed.”
