Éxodo 21
1 Y ESTOS son los derechos que les propondrás.
Now these are the ordinances which thou shall set before them.
2 Si comprares siervo hebreo, seis años servirá; mas el séptimo saldrá horro de balde.
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
3 Si entró solo, solo saldrá: si tenía mujer, saldrá él y su mujer con él.
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 Si su amo le hubiere dado mujer, y ella le hubiere parido hijos ó hijas, la mujer y sus hijos serán de su amo, y él saldrá solo.
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her sons shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
5 Y si el siervo dijere: Yo amo á mi señor, á mi mujer y á mis hijos, no saldré libre:
But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my sons, I will not go out free,
6 Entonces su amo lo hará llegar á los jueces, y harále llegar á la puerta ó al poste; y su amo le horadará la oreja con lesna, y será su siervo para siempre.
then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7 Y cuando alguno vendiere su hija por sierva, no saldrá como suelen salir los siervos.
And if a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
8 Si no agradare á su señor, por lo cual no la tomó por esposa, permitirle ha que se rescate, y no la podrá vender á pueblo extraño cuando la desechare.
If she does not please her master, who has espoused her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no power to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9 Mas si la hubiere desposado con su hijo, hará con ella según la costumbre de las hijas.
And if he espouses her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the manner of daughters.
10 Si le tomare otra, no disminuirá su alimento, ni su vestido, ni el débito conyugal.
If he takes him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.
11 Y si ninguna de estas tres cosas hiciere, ella saldrá de gracia sin dinero.
And if he does not do these three things to her, then she shall go out for nothing, without money.
12 El que hiriere á alguno, haciéndole así morir, él morirá.
He who smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.
13 Mas el que no armó asechanzas, sino que Dios [lo] puso en sus manos, entonces yo te señalaré lugar al cual ha de huir.
And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand, then I will appoint for thee a place where he shall flee.
14 Además, si alguno se ensoberbeciere contra su prójimo, y lo matare con alevosía, de mi altar lo quitarás para que muera.
And if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with guile, thou shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15 Y el que hiriere á su padre ó á su madre, morirá.
And he who smites his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
16 Asimismo el que robare una persona, y la vendiere, ó se hallare en sus manos, morirá.
And he who steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 Igualmente el que maldijere á su padre ó á su madre, morirá.
And he who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
18 Además, si algunos riñeren, y alguno hiriere á su prójimo con piedra ó con el puño, y no muriere, pero cayere en cama;
And if men contend, and one smites the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he does not die, but keeps his bed,
19 Si se levantare y anduviere fuera sobre su báculo, entonces será el que le hirió absuelto: solamente le satisfará lo que estuvo parado, y hará que le curen.
if he rises again, and walks abroad upon his staff, then he who smote him shall be acquitted. Only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
20 Y si alguno hiriere á su siervo ó á su sierva con palo, y muriere bajo de su mano, será castigado:
And if a man smites his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
21 Mas si durare por un día ó dos, no será castigado, porque su dinero es.
Notwithstanding, if he continues a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his money.
22 Si algunos riñeren, é hiriesen á mujer preñada, y ésta abortare, pero sin haber muerte, será penado conforme á lo que le impusiere el marido de la mujer y juzgaren los árbitros.
And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 Mas si hubiere muerte, entonces pagarás vida por vida,
But if any harm follows, then thou shall give 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, golpe por golpe.
burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
26 Y cuando alguno hiriere el ojo de su siervo, ó el ojo de su sierva, y lo entortare, darále libertad por razón de su ojo.
And if a man smites the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
27 Y si sacare el diente de su siervo, ó el diente de su sierva, por su diente le dejará ir libre.
And if he knocks out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
28 Si un buey acorneare hombre ó mujer, y de resultas muriere, el buey será apedreado, y no se comerá su carne; mas el dueño del buey será absuelto.
And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.
29 Pero si el buey era acorneador desde ayer y antes de ayer, y á su dueño le fué hecho requerimiento, y no lo hubiere guardado, y matare hombre ó mujer, el buey será apedreado, y también morirá su dueño.
But if the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
30 Si le fuere impuesto rescate, entonces dará por el rescate de su persona cuanto le fuere impuesto.
If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.
31 Haya acorneado hijo, ó haya acorneado hija, conforme á este juicio se hará con él.
Whether it has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.
32 Si el buey acorneare siervo ó sierva, pagará treinta siclos de plata su señor, y el buey será apedreado.
If the ox gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 Y si alguno abriere hoyo, ó cavare cisterna, y no la cubriere, y cayere allí buey ó asno,
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it,
34 El dueño de la cisterna pagará el dinero, resarciendo á su dueño, y lo que fué muerto será suyo.
the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner of it, and the dead beast shall be his.
35 Y si el buey de alguno hiriere al buey de su prójimo, y éste muriere, entonces venderán el buey vivo, y partirán el dinero de él, y también partirán el muerto.
And if one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it, and the dead they shall also divide.
36 Mas si era notorio que el buey era acorneador de ayer y antes de ayer, y su dueño no lo hubiere guardado, pagará buey por buey, y el muerto será suyo.
Or if it be known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own.
