Deuteronomio 15
1 Al cabo de siete años harás remisión.
At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.
2 He aquí en qué consiste la remisión: Todo acreedor remitirá lo que haya prestado a su prójimo; no lo exigirá a su prójimo, esto es, su hermano, una vez publicada la remisión de Yahvé.
This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbour. He shall not require payment from his neighbour and his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed.
3 Podrás exigirlo a un extranjero, pero lo que tu hermano tiene de lo tuyo, se lo remitirás;
Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.
4 para que no haya en medio de ti menesteroso alguno, pues Yahvé te bendecirá abundantemente en la tierra que Yahvé, tu Dios, te dará en propiedad hereditaria,
However there will be no poor with you (for the LORD will surely bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess)
5 con tal que oigas cuidadosamente la voz de Yahvé, tu Dios, empeñándote en cumplir todos estos mandamientos que hoy te prescribo.
if only you diligently listen to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.
6 Porque Yahvé, tu Dios, te bendecirá como te ha dicho, tú prestarás a muchas naciones, mas no pedirás prestado; dominarás a muchos pueblos, y ellos no te dominarán a ti.
For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
7 Cuando hubiere en medio de ti un pobre de entre tus hermanos, en una de tus ciudades, en la tierra que Yahvé, tu Dios, te dará, no endurezcas tu corazón, ni cierres tu mano contra tu hermano pobre;
If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
8 sino ábrele tu mano y préstale lo suficiente para satisfacer la necesidad que le oprime.
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.
9 Ten cuidado, no sea que se levante en tu corazón el perverso pensamiento: ‘Se va acercando el año séptimo, el año de la remisión’; y tu ojo sea malo para con tu hermano indigente, de modo que no le des nada; pues si él clama contra ti a Yahvé, tú te acarreas pecado.
Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.
10 Dale sin falta, y al darle no debe dolerte el corazón; porque a raíz de esto te bendecirá Yahvé, tu Dios, en todas tus obras y en todo aquello que emprendas.
You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.
11 Porque nunca dejará de haber pobres en el país, por lo cual yo te mando diciendo: Abre tu mano a tu hermano, es decir, a tu pobre y a tu necesitado en tu tierra.
For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
12 Cuando uno de tus hermanos, hebreo o hebrea, te fuere vendido, te sirva seis años, y al séptimo le despedirás libre de tu lado.
If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
13 Y al despedirle libre de tu lado no le dejarás ir con las manos vacías;
When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.
14 antes al contrario le darás liberalmente de tu rebaño, de tu era y de tu lagar; le darás de aquello con que Yahvé, tu Dios, te ha bendecido.
You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
15 Acuérdate de que tú fuiste siervo en la tierra de Egipto y que Yahvé, tu Dios, te puso en libertad; por eso te doy ahora este mandato.
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
16 Mas si te dijere: “No quiero salir de tu casa”, por cuanto te ama a ti y a tu casa, porque le va bien contigo,
It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you,
17 tomarás una lezna y horadarás su oreja contra la puerta, y será esclavo tuyo para siempre. Lo mismo harás con tu esclava.
then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.
18 No te parezca duro a tus ojos darle por libre; pues sirviéndote seis años te ha ahorrado el salario de dos jornaleros, y Yahvé, tu Dios, te bendecirá en cuanto hagas.
It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for he has been double the value of a hired hand as he served you six years. The LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.
19 Consagrarás a Yahvé, tu Dios, todo primerizo que naciere de tus vacas y de tus ovejas; no trabajarás con el primerizo de tu vaca, ni esquilarás el primer nacido de tus ovejas:
You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
20 Los comerás, cada año, tú y tu casa, delante de Yahvé, tu Dios, en el lugar escogido por Yahvé.
You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.
21 Pero si hay en él alguna tacha, si es cojo o ciego, o tiene otro defecto grave, no se lo ofrecerás en sacrificio a Yahvé, tu Dios;
If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.
22 sino que lo comerás dentro de tus puertas, sin hacer distinción entre el impuro y el limpio, así como se come la gacela y el ciervo.
You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.
23 Pero no comerás su sangre, la cual derramarás sobre la tierra como agua.
Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.
