Exodus 21
1 And these [are] the judgments which you set before them:
Estas son las Ordenanzas que les promulgarás:
2 When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves [for] six years, and in the seventh he goes out as a freeman for nothing;
Cuando compres un esclavo hebreo, servirá como esclavo seis años, pero al séptimo saldrá libre sin pagar.
3 if he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he [is] owner of a wife, then his wife has gone out with him;
Si entró solo, saldrá solo. Si tenía esposa, entonces su esposa saldrá con él.
4 if his lord gives a wife to him, and she has borne sons or daughters to him—the wife and her children are her lord’s, and he goes out by himself.
Pero si su ʼadon le dio esposa, y ella le dio a luz hijos o hijas, la esposa y sus hijos serán de su ʼadon; él saldrá solo.
5 And if the servant really says: I have loved my lord, my wife, and my sons—I do not go out free,
Pero si el esclavo dice con insistencia: Yo amo a mi ʼadon, a mi esposa y a mis hijos. No saldré libre.
6 then his lord has brought him near to God, and has brought him near to the door, or to the doorpost, and his lord has bored his ear with an awl, and he has served him for all time.
Entonces su ʼadon lo llevará ante los jueces, lo acercará a la puerta o a la jamba de la puerta. Su ʼadon le perforará la oreja con un punzón, y será su esclavo para siempre.
7 And when a man sells his daughter for a handmaid, she does not go out according to the going out of the menservants;
Cuando un hombre venda a su hija como esclava, ella no saldrá libre como suelen salir los esclavos varones.
8 if [it is] evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he has not betrothed her, then he has let her be ransomed; he has no power to sell her to a strange people, in his dealing treacherously with her.
Si no agrada a su ʼadon, quien la destinó para él como esposa, dejará que sea rescatada, y no tendrá autoridad para venderla a pueblo extranjero, porque la traicionó.
9 And if he betroths her to his son, he does to her according to the right of daughters.
Si la destina para su hijo, hará con ella según la costumbre de las hijas.
10 If he takes another [woman] for him, he does not withdraw her food, her covering, and her habitation;
Si toma otra esposa para él, no disminuirá a la primera su alimento, ni su ropa, ni sus derechos conyugales.
11 and if he does not do these three for her, then she has gone out for nothing, without money.
Si no hace ninguna de estas tres cosas con ella, entonces ella saldrá libre sin pagar dinero.
12 He who strikes a man so that he has died is certainly put to death;
El que hiera a un hombre y éste muera, ciertamente morirá.
13 as for him who has not laid wait, but God has brought [him] to his hand, I have even set a place for you to where he flees.
Pero si no estaba al acecho, sino que ʼElohim permitió que cayera en su mano, entonces Yo te señalaré lugar adonde él puede huir.
14 And when a man presumes against his neighbor to slay him with subtlety, you take him from My altar to die.
Sin embargo, si un hombre se enfurece contra su prójimo y lo asesina con alevosía, hasta de mi propio altar lo podrás arrestar para que muera.
15 And he who strikes his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
El que golpee a su padre o a su madre ciertamente morirá.
16 And he who steals a man, and has sold him, and he has been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.
El que secuestre a una persona, ya sea que la venda o sea hallada en su poder, ciertamente morirá.
17 And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
El que maldiga a su padre o a su madre ciertamente morirá.
18 And when men contend, and a man has struck his neighbor with a stone, or with the fist, and he does not die, but has fallen on the bed;
Si unos hombres pelean, y uno hiere a su prójimo con piedra o el puño, pero no muere sino cae en cama,
19 if he rises, and has gone up and down outside on his staff, then the striker has been acquitted; he only gives [for] his cessation, and he is thoroughly healed.
si se levanta, y puede entrar y salir sin su bastón, el que lo hirió será absuelto. Solo pagará por su tiempo de reposo y será responsable de que sea curado completamente.
20 And when a man strikes his manservant or his handmaid with a rod, and he has died under his hand—he is certainly avenged;
Cuando alguno hiera a su esclavo o a su esclava con la vara, y muera bajo su mano, ciertamente será vengado.
21 only if he remains a day, or two days, he is not avenged, for he [is] his money.
Pero si sobrevive un día o dos, no será vengado, porque él es propiedad suya.
22 And when men strive, and have struck a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no harm [to them], he is certainly fined as the husband of the woman lays on him, and he has given through the judges;
Si unos hombres pelean, y golpean a una mujer embarazada de tal modo que ella da a luz prematuramente, y sin embargo, ella no tiene heridas, los culpables serán multados según lo que el esposo de la señora imponga sobre ellos y les sea impuesto por los jueces.
23 and if there is harm [to them], then you have given life for life,
Pero si hay daño grave, entonces pagará vida por vida,
24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie,
25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
quemadura por quemadura, herida por herida, contusión por contusión.
26 And when a man strikes the eye of his manservant, or the eye of his handmaid, and has destroyed it, he sends him away as a freeman for his eye;
Cuando alguien hiera el ojo de su esclavo o el de su esclava, y lo inutilice, lo dejará en libertad por causa de su ojo.
27 and if he knocks out a tooth of his manservant or a tooth of his handmaid, he sends him away as a freeman for his tooth.
Si le saca un diente a su esclavo o a su esclava con un golpe, lo dejará en libertad por causa de su diente.
28 And when an ox gores man or woman, and they have died, the ox is certainly stoned, and his flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox [is] acquitted;
Cuando un buey cornee a un hombre o a una mujer y muera, ciertamente el buey será apedreado y no se comerá su carne, y el dueño del buey no será castigado.
29 and if the ox is [one] accustomed to gore before, and it has been testified to its owner, and he does not watch it, and it has put to death a man or woman, the ox is stoned, and its owner is also put to death.
Pero si el buey era corneador desde antes, y a su dueño se le advirtió, pero no lo encerró, y mata a un hombre o una mujer, el buey será apedreado y también morirá su dueño.
30 If atonement is laid on him, then he has given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid on him;
Pero si se le impone un impuesto de rescate, entonces pagará por el rescate de su vida cuanto le sea impuesto.
31 whether it gores a son or gores a daughter, according to this judgment it is done to him.
Si cornea a un muchacho o a una muchacha, se hará con él conforme a esta misma norma.
32 If the ox gores a manservant or a handmaid, he gives thirty silver shekels to their lord, and the ox is stoned.
Si el buey cornea a un esclavo o a una esclava, el dueño del buey pagará 330 gramos de plata al amo del esclavo, y el toro será apedreado.
33 And when a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey has fallen [in] there—
Cuando alguno destape un pozo o excave una cisterna y no la cubra, y caiga allí un toro o un asno,
34 the owner of the pit repays, he gives back money to its owner, and the dead is his.
el dueño de la cisterna indemnizará. Pagará el dinero a su dueño, y lo muerto será suyo.
35 And when a man’s ox strikes the ox of his neighbor and it has died, then they have sold the living ox, and halved its money, and they also halve the dead one;
Si el buey de alguno hiere el buey de su prójimo y muere, entonces venderán el buey vivo y partirán el dinero, y también partirán el buey muerto.
36 or, [if] it has been known that the ox is [one] accustomed to gore before, and its owner does not watch it, he certainly repays ox for ox, and the dead is his.
Pero si era notorio que el buey era corneador desde antes, y su dueño no lo encerró, pagará buey por buey, y el buey muerto será suyo.
