Deuteronomio 7

1 Cuando el SEÑOR tu Dios te hubiere introducido en la tierra en la cual tú has de entrar para heredarla, y hubiere echado de delante de tu presencia a muchos gentiles, al heteo, al gergeseo, al amorreo, al cananeo, al ferezeo, al heveo, y al jebuseo, siete naciones mayores y más fuertes que tú;

“When your God YHWH brings you into the land to where you are going in to possess it, and He has cast out many nations from your presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than you,

2 y el SEÑOR tu Dios las hubiere entregado delante de ti, y las hirieres, del todo las destruirás; no harás con ellos alianza, ni las tomarás a merced.

and your God YHWH has given them before you, then you have struck them—you utterly devote them—you do not make a covenant with them, nor do you favor them.

3 Y no emparentarás con ellos; no darás tu hija a su hijo, ni tomarás a su hija para tu hijo.

And you do not join in marriage with them; you do not give your daughter to his son, and you do not take his daughter to your son,

4 Porque desviará a tu hijo de en pos de mí, y servirán a dioses ajenos; y el furor del SEÑOR se encenderá sobre vosotros, y te destruirá presto.

for he turns aside your son from after Me, and they have served other gods; and the anger of YHWH has burned against you and has destroyed you quickly.

5 Mas así habéis de hacer con ellos: sus altares destruiréis, y quebraréis sus imágenes, y cortaréis sus bosques, y quemaréis sus esculturas en el fuego.

But thus you do to them: you break down their altars, and you shatter their standing pillars, and you cut down their Asherim, and you burn their carved images with fire.

6 Porque tú eres pueblo santo al SEÑOR tu Dios; el SEÑOR tu Dios te ha escogido para serle un pueblo único, diferente a todos los pueblos que están sobre la faz de la tierra.

For you [are] a holy people to your God YHWH; your God YHWH has fixed on you, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who [are] on the face of the ground.

7 No por ser vosotros más que todos los pueblos os ha codiciado el SEÑOR, y os ha escogido; porque vosotros erais los más pocos de todos los pueblos;

YHWH has delighted in you and fixes on you, not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples, for you [are] the least of all the peoples,

8 sino porque el SEÑOR os amó, y quiso guardar el juramento que juró a vuestros padres, os ha sacado el SEÑOR con mano fuerte, y os ha rescatado de casa de siervos, de la mano del Faraón, rey de Egipto.

but because of YHWH’s loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He has sworn to your fathers; YHWH has brought you out by a strong hand, and ransoms you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 Para que sepas que el SEÑOR tu Dios es Dios, Dios fiel, que guarda el pacto y la misericordia a los que le aman y guardan sus mandamientos, hasta las mil generaciones;

And you have known that He, your God YHWH, [is] God, the faithful God keeping the covenant and the kindness with those loving Him and with those keeping His commands, for one thousand generations,

10 y que da el pago en su cara al que le aborrece, destruyéndolo; ni lo dilatará al que le aborrece, en su cara le dará el pago.

and repaying to those hating Him to their face, to destroy them; He does not delay to him who is hating Him, He repays [it] to him to his face.

11 Guarda, por tanto, los mandamientos, y estatutos, y derechos que yo te mando hoy que hagas.

And you have kept the command, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I am commanding you today to do them.

12 Y será que, por haber oído estos derechos, y haberlos guardado y puesto por obra, el SEÑOR tu Dios guardará contigo el pacto y la misericordia que juró a tus padres;

And it has been, because you hear these judgments, and have kept and done them, that your God YHWH has kept the covenant and the kindness with you which He has sworn to your fathers,

13 y te amará, y te bendecirá, y te multiplicará; y bendecirá el fruto de tu vientre, y el fruto de tu tierra, y tu grano, y tu mosto, y tu aceite, la cría de tus vacas, y los rebaños de tus ovejas, en la tierra que juró a tus padres que te daría.

and has loved you, and blessed you, and multiplied you, and has blessed the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your ground, your grain, and your new wine, and your oil, the increase of your oxen, and the wealth of your flock, on the ground which He has sworn to your fathers to give to you.

14 Bendito serás más que todos los pueblos; no habrá en ti macho ni hembra estéril, ni en tus bestias.

Blessed are you above all the peoples; there is not a barren man or a barren woman in you—nor among your livestock;

15 Y quitará el SEÑOR de ti toda enfermedad; y todas las malas plagas de Egipto, que tú conoces; no las pondrá sobre ti, antes las pondrá sobre todos los que te aborrecieren.

and YHWH has turned aside every sickness from you, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which you have known) does He put on you, and He has put them on all hating you.

16 Y consumirás a todos los pueblos que te da el SEÑOR tu Dios; no los perdonará tu ojo; ni servirás a sus dioses, que te será tropiezo.

And you have consumed all the peoples whom your God YHWH is giving to you; your eye has no pity on them, and you do not serve their gods, for it [is] a snare to you.

17 Cuando dijeres en tu corazón: Aquellos gentiles son muchos más que yo, ¿cómo los podré desarraigar?

When you say in your heart, These nations [are] more numerous than I, how am I able to dispossess them?

18 No tengas temor de ellos; acuérdate bien de lo que hizo el SEÑOR tu Dios con Faraón y con todo Egipto;

You are not afraid of them; you surely remember that which your God YHWH has done to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt,

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 el SEÑOR tu Dios te sacó; así hará el SEÑOR tu Dios con todos los pueblos de cuya presencia tú temieres.

the great trials which your eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the outstretched arm, with which your God YHWH has brought you out; so does your God YHWH do to all the peoples of whose presence you are afraid.

20 Y también enviará el SEÑOR tu Dios sobre ellos avispas, hasta que perezcan los que quedaren, y los que se hubieren escondido de delante de ti.

And your God YHWH also sends the locust among them, until the destruction of those who are left, even those who are hidden from your presence;

21 No desmayes delante de ellos, que el SEÑOR tu Dios está en medio de ti, Dios grande y terrible.

you are not terrified by their presence, for your God YHWH [is] in your midst, a God great and fearful.

22 Y el SEÑOR tu Dios echará a estos gentiles de delante de ti poco a poco; no los podrás acabar luego, para que las bestias del campo no se aumenten contra ti.

And your God YHWH has cast out these nations from your presence little [by] little (you are not able to consume them quickly, lest the beast of the field multiplies against you),

23 Mas el SEÑOR tu Dios los entregará delante de ti, y él los quebrantará con grande destrozo, hasta que sean destruidos.

and your God YHWH has given them before you, and confused them [with] a great destruction until their being destroyed;

24 Y él entregará sus reyes en tu mano, y tú destruirás el nombre de ellos de debajo del cielo; nadie te hará frente hasta que los destruyas.

and He has given their kings into your hand, and you have destroyed their name from under the heavens; no man stations himself in your presence until you have destroyed them.

25 Las esculturas de sus dioses quemarás en el fuego; no codiciarás plata ni oro de sobre ellas para tomarlo para ti; para que no tropieces en ello, porque es abominación al SEÑOR tu Dios;

You burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you do not desire the silver and gold on them, nor have you taken [it] for yourself, lest you are snared by it, for it [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH;

26 y no meterás abominación en tu casa, para que no seas tú anatema como ella; del todo la aborrecerás y la abominarás; porque es anatema.

and you do not bring in an abomination to your house, or you have been devoted like it—you utterly detest it and you utterly abhor it; for it [is] devoted.”