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.
If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges judge them, then they will acquit the righteous and condemn the wicked.
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.
If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, then the judge will make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the ordered number of blows, as was his crime.
3 Se le pueden dar cuarenta golpes, no más; porque si se dan más, tu hermano sería degradado ante tus ojos.
The judge may give him forty blows, but he may not exceed that number; for if he should exceed that number and beat him with many more blows, then your fellow Israelite would be humiliated before your eyes.
4 No evites que el buey tome el grano cuando lo esté trillando.
You must not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
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.
If brothers live together and one of them dies, not having any son, then the wife of the dead man must not be married off to someone else outside the family. Instead, her husband's brother must sleep with her and take her to himself as a wife, and do the duty of a husband's brother to her.
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.
This is so that the firstborn that she bears will succeed in the name of that man's dead brother, so that his name will not perish from 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.
But if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife for himself, then his brother's wife must go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to raise up for his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
8 Entonces los hombres responsables del pueblo enviarán por el hombre y hablarán con él; y si él todavía dice: no la tomaré;
Then the elders of his city must call him and speak to him. But suppose that he insists and says, 'I do not wish 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 must come up to him in the presence of the elders, take off his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She must answer him and say, 'This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'
10 Y su familia será nombrada en Israel, la casa de aquel cuyo zapato ha sido quitado.
His name will be called in Israel, 'The house of him whose sandal has been taken 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;
If men fight with each other, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband out of the hand of him who struck him, and if she stretches out her hand and takes him by the private parts,
12 Su mano será cortada; no tengas piedad de ella.
then you must cut off her hand; your eye must have no pity.
13 No tendrás en tu bolsa pesas y medidas falsas, una grande y otra pequeña;
You must not have in your bag different weights, a large and a small.
14 O en tu casa diferentes medidas, una grande y una pequeña.
You must not have in your house different measures, a large and a small.
15 Pero ten pesas y medidas verdadera: para que tu vida sea larga en la tierra que el Señor su Dios les está dando.
A perfect and just weight you must have; a perfect and just measure you must have, so that your days may be long in the land that Yahweh your God is giving 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 all who do such things, all that act unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
17 Acuérdate lo que Amalec les hizo a ustedes en su camino desde Egipto;
Call to mind what Amalek did to you on the road as you came out of 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.
how he met you on the road and attacked those of you at the rear, all who were feeble in your rear, when you were faint and weary; he did not honor 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.
Therefore, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you must not forget that you must blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
