Éxodo 21
1 Y ESTOS son los derechos que les propondrás.
And these [are] the ordinances which you shall set before them.
2 Si comprares siervo hebreo, seis años servirá; mas el séptimo saldrá horro de balde.
If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.
3 Si entró solo, solo saldrá: si tenía mujer, saldrá él y su mujer con él.
If he should have come in alone, he shall also go forth alone; and if his wife should have gone in together with him, his wife also shall go out.
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.
Moreover, if his master give him a wife, and she have [born] him sons or daughters, the wife and the children shall be his master's; and he shall go forth alone.
5 Y si el siervo dijere: Yo amo á mi señor, á mi mujer y á mis hijos, no saldré libre:
And if the servant should answer and say, I love my master and wife and children, I will not go away 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.
his master shall bring him to the judgment-seat of God, and then shall he bring him to the door, —to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
7 Y cuando alguno vendiere su hija por sierva, no saldrá como suelen salir los siervos.
And if any one sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart.
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 be not pleasing to her master, after she has betrothed herself to him, he shall let her go free; but he is not at liberty to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has trifled with her.
9 Mas si la hubiere desposado con su hijo, hará con ella según la costumbre de las hijas.
And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her according to the right of daughters.
10 Si le tomare otra, no disminuirá su alimento, ni su vestido, ni el débito conyugal.
And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship [with him].
11 Y si ninguna de estas tres cosas hiciere, ella saldrá de gracia sin dinero.
And if he will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free without money.
12 El que hiriere á alguno, haciéndole así morir, él morirá.
And if any man strike another and he die, let him be certainly 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.
But as for him that did it not willingly, but God delivered him into his hands, I will give you a place whither the slayer may 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 any one lie in wait for his neighbor to kill him by craft, and he go for refuge, you shall take him from my altar to put him to death.
15 Y el que hiriere á su padre ó á su madre, morirá.
Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death.
16 Asimismo el que robare una persona, y la vendiere, ó se hallare en sus manos, morirá.
He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.
17 Igualmente el que maldijere á su padre ó á su madre, morirá.
Whosoever shall steal one of the children of Israel, and prevail over him and sell him, and he be found with him, let him certainly die.
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 two men revile each other and strike the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon 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 the man arise and walk abroad on his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for his loss of time, and for his healing.
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 strike his man-servant or his maidservant, with a rod, and [the party] die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.
21 Mas si durare por un día ó dos, no será castigado, porque su dinero es.
But if [the servant] continue to live a day or two, let not [the master] 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 two men strive and strike a woman with child, and her child be born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman's husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation.
23 Mas si hubiere muerte, entonces pagarás vida por vida,
But if it be perfectly formed, he 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 one strike the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his maidservant, and put it out, he shall let them go free for their 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 should strike out the tooth of his man-servant, or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall send them away free for their 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 a bull gore a man or woman and they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.
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 bull should have been given to goring in former time, and men should have told his owner, and he have not removed him, but he should have slain a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also.
30 Si le fuere impuesto rescate, entonces dará por el rescate de su persona cuanto le fuere impuesto.
And if a ransom should be imposed on him, he shall pay for the ransom of his soul as much as they shall lay upon him.
31 Haya acorneado hijo, ó haya acorneado hija, conforme á este juicio se hará con él.
And if [the bull] gore a son or daughter, let them do to him according to this ordinance.
32 Si el buey acorneare siervo ó sierva, pagará treinta siclos de plata su señor, y el buey será apedreado.
And if the bull gore a man-servant or maidservant, he shall pay to their master thirty silver didrachmas, and the bull shall be stoned.
33 Y si alguno abriere hoyo, ó cavare cisterna, y no la cubriere, y cayere allí buey ó asno,
And if any one open a pit or dig a cavity in stone, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall in there,
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 compensation; he shall give money to their owner, and the dead shall be his own.
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 any man's bull gore the bull of his neighbor, and it die, they shall sell the living bull and divide the money, and they shall divide the dead bull.
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.
But if the bull be known to have been given to goring in time past, and they have testified to his owner, and he have not removed him, he shall repay bull for bull, but the dead shall be his own.
