Éxodo 23
1 No admitirás falso rumor. No pongas tu mano con el impío para ser testigo falso.
“Do not tell to others (false rumors/untrue reports) about other people. Do not help someone who is guilty by (testifying falsely/lying) [about what happened].
2 No seguirás a los muchos para mal hacer, ni responderás en pleito acostándote tras los muchos para hacer tuerto.
Do not join a group of people who are planning to do something evil. Do not testify the way the [crowd wants you to], if that will prevent [the judge from deciding the case] justly/fairly.
3 Ni al pobre honrarás en su causa.
When a poor person is on trial, do not [testify in] his favor [just] because he is poor [and you feel sorry for him].
4 Si encontrares el buey de tu enemigo, o su asno errado, volviendo se lo volverás.
If you see someone’s bull or donkey when it is wandering away [loose], take it back to [its owner, even if the owner] is your enemy.
5 Si vieres el asno del que te aborrece echado debajo de su carga, ¿dejarlo has entonces desamparado? ayudando ayudarás con él.
If you see someone’s donkey that has fallen down [because of its heavy load], help the owner to get the donkey up again, [even if] he is someone who hates you. Do not just walk away [without helping him].
6 No pervertirás el derecho de tu mendigo en su pleito.
Decide the cases of poor people who are on trial [as] fairly [as you decide the cases of other people].
7 De palabra de mentira te alejarás; y no matarás al inocente y justo; porque yo no justificaré al impío.
Do not accuse people falsely. Do not decide that innocent and righteous [DOU] people should be executed, because I will (punish/not forgive) people who do such an evil thing.
8 No recibirás presente; porque el presente ciega a los que ven, y pervierte las palabras justas.
Do not accept money that is a bribe, because officials who accept bribes are not able to [MTY] decide what is right to do, and they do not allow innocent people to be treated fairly.
9 Ítem, al extranjero no angustiarás; pues que vosotros sabéis el alma del extranjero, que fuisteis extranjeros en la tierra de Egipto.
Do not mistreat foreigners [who live among you]. You know [how people often treat] foreigners, because the Egyptians [did not treat you well when] you were foreigners there.
10 Seis años sembrarás tu tierra, y allegarás su cosecha:
Plant [seeds] in your ground and gather the harvest for six years.
11 Mas al séptimo la dejarás y soltarás, para que coman los pobres de tu pueblo; y lo que quedare comerán las bestias del campo: así harás de tu viña y de tu olivar.
But during the seventh year you must not plant anything. [If things grow without your planting seeds], allow poor people [to harvest and] eat the crops. If there are still crops (left over/that they do not harvest), allow wild animals to eat them. Do the same thing with your grapevines/vineyards and your olive trees.
12 Seis días harás tus negocios; y al séptimo día holgarás, porque huelgue tu buey, y tu asno; y tome refrigerio el hijo de tu sierva, y el extranjero.
[You may] work for six days [each week], but on the seventh day you must rest [and not work]. And on the seventh day you must allow your work animals and your slaves and the foreigners [who live among you] also [to rest and] be refreshed.
13 Y en todo lo que os he dicho, seréis avisados. Y nombre de otros dioses no mentaréis, ni se oirá en vuestra boca.
Make certain that you obey everything that I have commanded [you to do]. Do not pray to [MTY] other gods. Do not even mention their names.”
14 Tres veces en el año me celebraréis fiesta.
“Every year you must celebrate three festivals to [honor] me.
15 La fiesta de las cenceñas guardarás: siete días comerás los panes sin levadura, de la manera que yo te mandé, en el tiempo del mes de Abib, porque en él saliste de Egipto, y no serán vistas mis faces en vacío.
[The first one] is the Festival of Bread That Has No Yeast. Celebrate it in the month [that is named] Abib. That is the month in which you left Egypt. Celebrate it in the way that I commanded you. And always bring [LIT] an offering when you come to worship me.
16 Ítem, la fiesta de la segada de los primeros frutos de tus trabajos que hubieres sembrado en el campo. Y la fiesta de la cosecha a la salida del año, cuando cogieres tus trabajos del campo.
The second one is the Festival of Harvesting. During that festival you must offer to me the first parts/harvest of your crops that grow from the seeds that you planted. The third one is the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters. That will be after you finish harvesting your grain and grapes and fruit.
17 Tres veces en el año parecerá todo varón tuyo delante del Señor Jehová.
Every year, at each of these times, all the men must gather together to worship me, Yahweh God.
18 No sacrificarás sobre pan leudo la sangre de mi sacrificio, ni el sebo de mi cordero quedará de la noche hasta la mañana.
When you sacrifice an animal [and offer it] to me, you must not offer bread that has been baked with yeast. [When you] offer sacrifices, [burn] the fat [from the animals on that same day]. Do not allow any fat to remain until the next morning.
19 Las primicias de los primeros frutos de tu tierra traerás a la casa de Jehová tu Dios. No guisarás el cabrito con la leche de su madre.
Each year, when you harvest your crops, bring to the place where you worship me, Yahweh God, the first part of what you harvest. When you kill a (young animal/kid [or lamb or calf)], do not [prepare to eat it by] boiling it in its mother’s milk.”
20 He aquí, yo envío el ángel delante de ti, para que te guarde en el camino, y te meta al lugar que yo he aparejado.
“Note this: I am going to send an angel ahead of you, to guard you as you travel and to bring you safely to the place that I have prepared [for you]. Pay attention to what he says and obey him. Do not rebel against him, because he will have my authority [MTY] and he will (punish/not forgive) [LIT] you if you rebel against him.
21 Guárdate delante de él, y oye su voz, no le seas rebelde, porque él no perdonará a vuestra rebelión; porque mi nombre está en medio de él.
22 Porque si oyendo oyeres su voz, e hicieres todo lo que yo te dijere, seré enemigo a tus enemigos, y afligiré a los que te afligieren.
But if you pay attention to what he says and if you do all that I tell you [to do], I will fight strongly [DOU] against all of your enemies.
23 Porque mi ángel irá delante de ti, y te meterá al Amorreo, y al Jetteo, y al Ferezeo, y al Cananeo, y al Heveo, y al Jebuseo, los cuales yo haré cortar.
My angel will go ahead of you, and will take you to where the Amor and Heth and Periz and Canaan and Hiv and Jebus people-groups live, and I will completely get rid of them.
24 No te inclinarás a sus dioses, ni los servirás, ni harás como ellos hacen, antes los destruirás del todo, y quebrantarás del todo sus estatuas.
Do not bow down before their gods/idols or worship them. And do not do the things [that they think that their gods want] them to do. Completely destroy their gods/idols, and smash to pieces their sacred stones.
25 Mas a Jehová vuestro Dios serviréis, y él bendecirá tu pan, y tus aguas, y yo quitaré enfermedad de en medio de ti.
You must worship me, Yahweh God. [If you do that], I will bless your (OR, bless [you by giving you]) food and water, and I will protect you from becoming sick.
26 No habrá amovedera ni estéril en tu tierra, y yo cumpliré el número de tus días.
No women in your land will have (miscarriages/babies that will die after being born prematurely), and no women will be unable to become pregnant. And I will enable you to live a long time.
27 Yo enviaré mi terror delante de ti, y haré atónito a todo pueblo donde tú entrares; y te daré la cerviz de todos tus enemigos.
I will cause the people who oppose you to become very afraid of me. I will cause the people whom you fight against to become very confused. And then I will cause them to turn around and run away from you.
28 Y yo enviaré la avispa delante de ti, que eche fuera al Heveo, y al Cananeo, y al Jetteo, de delante de ti.
I will cause your enemies to become terrified. And I will expel the Hiv, Canaan, and Heth people-groups from your land.
29 No lo echaré de delante de ti en un año, porque no se asuele la tierra, y se aumenten contra ti las bestias del campo.
I will not expel [all of] them in less than one year. If I did that, your land would become deserted, and there would be very many wild animals ([that would attack you/you would not be able to control]).
30 Poco a poco lo echaré de delante de ti, hasta que tú multipliques, y tomes la tierra por heredad.
I will expel those people-groups slowly, a few at a time, until the number of your people increases and you are able to live everywhere in the land.
31 Y yo pondré tu término desde el mar Bermejo hasta la mar de Palestina: y desde el desierto, hasta el río; porque yo pondré en vuestras manos los moradores de la tierra, y tú los echarás de delante de ti.
I will cause the borders of your land to extend from the (Red Sea/Gulf of Aqaba) [in the southeast] to the Mediterranean Sea [in the northwest], and from the [Sinai] Desert [in the southwest] to the [Euphrates] River [in the northeast of the country]. I will enable you [MTY] to expel the people who live there, so that you will expel them as you occupy more of the country.
32 No harás alianza con ellos, ni con sus dioses.
You must not make any agreement/treaty with those people or with their gods.
33 En tu tierra no habitarán, porque quizá no te hagan pecar contra mí, sirviendo a sus dioses: porque te será por tropezón.
Do not allow [those people] to live in your land, in order that they do not cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, [you will not be able to escape from worshiping them and sinning against me, just like someone caught] in a trap [is unable to escape] [MET].”
