Deuteronomio 25
1 Si hay una discusión entre hombres y ellos van a la ley entre sí, permita que los jueces den su decisión absolviendo al recto y condenado al malhechor.
“When there is a strife between men, and they have come near to the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrongdoer,
2 Y si el malhechor es sometido a un castigo mediante latigazos, el juez le dará órdenes para que en su presencia sea azotado ante él, el número de golpes es en relación con su crimen.
then it has come to pass, if the wrongdoer is to be struck, that the judge has caused him to fall down, and [one] has struck him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrongdoing, by number;
3 Se le pueden dar cuarenta golpes, no más; porque si se dan más, tu hermano sería degradado ante tus ojos.
he strikes him forty [times]; he is not adding, lest he is adding to strike him above these many stripes, and your brother be lightly esteemed in your eyes.
4 No evites que el buey tome el grano cuando lo esté trillando.
You do not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
5 Si los hermanos viven juntos y uno de ellos, a su muerte, no tiene un hijo, la esposa del hombre muerto no debe casarse fuera de la familia con otro hombre: deje que el hermano de su esposo entre a ella y le haga ella su esposa, haciendo lo correcto para que lo haga un cuñado.
When brothers dwell together, and one of them has died and has no son, the wife of the dead is not given to a strange man; her husband’s brother goes in to her, and has taken her to him for a wife, and performs the duty of her husband’s brother;
6 Entonces, el primer hijo varón que tenga se hará cargo de los derechos del hermano muerto, para que su nombre no llegue a su fin en Israel.
and it has been, the firstborn which she bears rises for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.
7 Pero si el hombre dice que no se llevará a la esposa de su hermano, entonces deje que la esposa vaya a los hombres responsables del pueblo y diga: “El hermano de mi marido no quiere que el nombre de su hermano siga vivo en Israel; no quiere cumplir su deber de cuñado.
And if the man does not delight to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife has gone up to the gate, to the elderly, and said, My husband’s brother is refusing to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he has not been willing to perform the duty of my husband’s brother;
8 Entonces los hombres responsables del pueblo enviarán por el hombre y hablarán con él; y si él todavía dice: no la tomaré;
and [the] elderly of his city have called for him, and spoken to him, and he has stood and said, I have no desire to take her.
9 Entonces la esposa de su hermano debe venir a él, delante de los hombres responsables del pueblo, y quitarle el zapato del pie, y escupirle en la cara, y decir: Así se lo debe hacer al hombre que no quiere cuidar el nombre de su hermano.
Then his brother’s wife has drawn near to him before the eyes of the elderly, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who does not build up the house of his brother;
10 Y su familia será nombrada en Israel, la casa de aquel cuyo zapato ha sido quitado.
and his name has been called in Israel, The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.
11 Si dos hombres están peleando, y la esposa de uno de ellos, acudiendo en ayuda de su esposo, toma al otro por las partes privadas;
When men strive together with one another, and the wife of one has drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his striker, and has put forth her hand, and laid hold on his private parts,
12 Su mano será cortada; no tengas piedad de ella.
then you have cut off her hand; your eye does not spare.
13 No tendrás en tu bolsa pesas y medidas falsas, una grande y otra pequeña;
You do not have [both] a great stone and a small stone in your bag.
14 O en tu casa diferentes medidas, una grande y una pequeña.
You do not have a great ephah and a small ephah in your house.
15 Pero ten pesas y medidas verdadera: para que tu vida sea larga en la tierra que el Señor su Dios les está dando.
You have a complete and just stone, [and] you have a complete and just ephah, so that they prolong your days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you;
16 Porque todos los que hacen tales cosas, y todos aquellos cuyos caminos no son rectos, son repugnantes para el Señor tu Dios.
for anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.
17 Acuérdate lo que Amalec les hizo a ustedes en su camino desde Egipto;
Remember that which Amalek has done to you in the way in your going out from Egypt,
18 Cómo, encontrándote en el camino, les atacó cuando estabas cansado y sin fuerzas, cortando a todos los débiles al final de la retaguardia; y el temor de Dios no estaba en él.
that he has met you in the way, and strikes among you all those feeble behind you (when you [were] weary and fatigued), and is not fearing God.
19 Entonces, cuando el Señor tu Dios les haya dado descanso de todos los que están contra ustedes por todos lados, en la tierra que el Señor tu Dios les está dando por tu herencia, borrarás de debajo del cielo la memoria de Amalec; No lo olvides.
And it has been, in your God YHWH giving rest to you from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance to possess it, you blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens—you do not forget.”
