Éxodo 21
1 Estas son las leyes que les has de dar:
“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:
2 Cuando comprares un esclavo hebreo, te servirá seis años, más al séptimo saldrá libre sin pagar nada.
“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
3 Si entró solo, solo saldrá; si tenía mujer, saldrá con él su mujer.
If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 Si su amo le dio mujer, y ella le dio (a su marido) hijos o hijas, la mujer y sus hijos serán de su amo, y él saldrá solo.
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
5 Mas si el esclavo dijere: “Amo a mi señor, y a mi mujer y a mis hijos, no quiero salir libre”,
But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’
6 su amo lo llevará ante Dios, y arrimándolo a la puerta o al poste de ella, su amo le horadará la oreja con una lezna; y así quedará esclavo suyo para siempre.
then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
7 Cuando un hombre vendiere a su hija por esclava, ella no saldrá como salen los esclavos.
“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.
8 Si no agrada a su señor que la había destinado para sí, permita él su rescate; mas no podrá venderla a gente extraña, por haberla engañado.
If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9 Si la destina para su hijo, la ha de tratar según el derecho de las hijas.
If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
10 Si toma para sí otra mujer, no le disminuirá la comida, ni el vestido, ni el deber conyugal.
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
11 Y si él no quiere darle estas tres cosas, puede ella salirse, sin pagar nada, sin rescate.
If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
12 El que hiera mortalmente a otro, muera irremisiblemente.
“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
13 Mas si no le hizo asechanzas, sino que Dios le dejó caer en su mano, para este tal Yo te señalaré lugar donde podrá refugiarse.
but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
14 Pero al que obrare con malicia contra su prójimo, matándole con alevosía, a ese lo arrancarás hasta de mi altar para matarlo.
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbour to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15 El que pegare a su padre o a su madre, muera irremisiblemente.
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
16 Quien robare un hombre y le vendiere, o si fuere hallado todavía en su poder, muera irremisiblemente.
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17 El que maldijere a su padre o a su madre, muera sin remedio.
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18 Cuando riñeren unos hombres y el uno hiriere al otro con piedra o con el puño, sin causarle la muerte, y si este después de hacer cama
“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;
19 se levantare y anduviere fuera, apoyándose en su bastón, quedará libre aquel que lo hirió. Le pagará solamente el tiempo perdido y los gastos de su curación completa.
if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.
20 Quien hiriere con un palo a su siervo o a su sierva, de modo que muera bajo su mano, caerá irremisiblemente bajo la ley de venganza.
“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.
21 Pero si sobreviviere un día o dos, no será castigado, por cuanto es hacienda suya.
Notwithstanding, if his servant gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for the servant is his property.
22 Cuando hombres trabados en riña dieren un golpe a una mujer encinta, de modo que aborte, sin más daño, (el culpable) será multado conforme a lo que imponga el marido de la mujer y según determinen los jueces.
“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.
23 Pero si resultare daño, darás vida por vida,
But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,
24 ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 quemadura por quemadura, herida por herida, contusión por contusión.
burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
26 Si uno, hiriendo el ojo de su siervo o el ojo de su sierva lo destruyere, le dará libertad en compensación de su ojo.
“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.
27 Asimismo, si hiciere saltar un diente a su siervo o un diente a su sierva, lo pondrá en libertad en compensación de su diente.
If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let the servant go free for his tooth’s sake.
28 Si un buey acornea a un hombre o a una mujer, con subsiguiente muerte, aquel buey será apedreado y no se comerá su carne, mas el dueño del buey quedará sin culpa.
“If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its meat shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.
29 Pero si el buey acorneaba ya desde tiempo atrás, y su dueño, a pesar de ser avisado, no lo tuvo encerrado, de modo que pudo matar a hombre o a mujer, el buey será apedreado, y también su dueño será muerto.
But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and this has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.
30 Si le imponen un precio de rescate, dará en rescate de su vida cuanto se le imponga.
If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed.
31 Si acornea a un hijo o a una hija, hágase con él según esta ley.
Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgement it shall be done to him.
32 Pero si el buey acorneare a un siervo o a una sierva, el dueño pagará treinta siclos de plata al dueño de ellos, y el buey será apedreado.
If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 Si uno deja abierto un pozo, o si uno cava un pozo y no lo tapa, y cayere en él un buey o asno,
“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
34 el propietario del pozo pagará indemnización en dinero al dueño de ellos, y el animal muerto será suyo.
the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
35 Si el buey de uno hiere al buey de otro, y este muere, venderán el buey vivo partiéndose su precio, y también el buey muerto será dividido entre ellos.
“If one man’s bull injures another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.
36 Mas si era notorio que el buey acorneaba desde tiempo atrás y su dueño faltó en custodiarlo, este resarcirá el daño: buey por buey; mas el (buey) muerto será suyo.
Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.
