Éxodo 21
1 Y ESTOS son los derechos que les propondrás.
“Now 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, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
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 is 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 children 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 children. 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 doorpost, 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.
“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male 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 doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right 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.
If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
10 Si le tomare otra, no disminuirá su alimento, ni su vestido, ni el débito conyugal.
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
11 Y si ninguna de estas tres cosas hiciere, ella saldrá de gracia sin dinero.
If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
12 El que hiriere á alguno, haciéndole así morir, él morirá.
“One who strikes 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.
but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you 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.
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbour to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15 Y el que hiriere á su padre ó á su madre, morirá.
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
16 Asimismo el que robare una persona, y la vendiere, ó se hallare en sus manos, morirá.
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 Igualmente el que maldijere á su padre ó á su madre, morirá.
“Anyone 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;
“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to 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 around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
20 Y si alguno hiriere á su siervo ó á su sierva con palo, y muriere bajo de su mano, será castigado:
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
21 Mas si durare por un día ó dos, no será castigado, porque su dinero es.
Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
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.
“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.
23 Mas si hubiere muerte, entonces pagarás vida por vida,
But if any harm follows, then you must take 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, and bruise for bruise.
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.
“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, 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.
If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant 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.
“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
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 had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull 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 imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
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 judgement 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 bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, 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,
“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into 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 its owner, and the dead animal 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.
“If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
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 is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
