Deuteronomio 25

1 Si hay un litigio entre hombres, y vienen a juicio y los jueces los juzgan, entonces justificarán al justo y condenarán al impío.

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 Si el impío es digno de ser azotado, el juez hará que se acueste y sea azotado delante de él, según su maldad, por número.

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 No podrá condenarlo a más de cuarenta azotes. No deberá dar más, no sea que si da más y lo golpea más que esa cantidad de azotes, entonces tu hermano será 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 pondrás bozal al buey cuando pise el grano.

You must not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

5 Si los hermanos viven juntos, y uno de ellos muere y no tiene hijo, la mujer del muerto no se casará fuera con un extraño. El hermano de su marido se acercará a ella y la tomará como esposa, y cumplirá con ella el deber de hermano de marido.

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 El primogénito que ella dé a luz sucederá en el nombre de su hermano muerto, para que su nombre no sea borrado de 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 Si el hombre no quiere tomar a la mujer de su hermano, la mujer de su hermano subirá a la puerta a los ancianos y dirá: “El hermano de mi marido se niega a levantar a su hermano un nombre en Israel. No cumplirá conmigo el deber de hermano de marido”.

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 ancianos de su ciudad lo llamarán y hablarán con él. Si él se levanta y dice: “No quiero tomarla”,

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 mujer de su hermano se acercará a él en presencia de los ancianos, le quitará la sandalia del pie y le escupirá en la cara. Ella responderá y dirá: “Así se hará con el hombre que no edifique la casa 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 Su nombre se llamará en Israel: “La casa del que se quitó la sandalia”.

His name will be called in Israel, 'The house of him whose sandal has been taken off.'

11 Cuando los hombres se peleen entre sí, y la mujer de uno se acerque para librar a su marido de la mano del que lo golpea, y saque la mano y lo agarre por sus partes íntimas,

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 entonces le cortarás la mano. Tu ojo no tendrá piedad.

then you must cut off her hand; your eye must have no pity.

13 No tendrás en tu bolsa pesos diversos, uno pesado y otro ligero.

You must not have in your bag different weights, a large and a small.

14 No tendrás en tu casa diversas medidas, una grande y otra pequeña.

You must not have in your house different measures, a large and a small.

15 Tendrás un peso perfecto y justo. Tendrás una medida perfecta y justa, para que tus días se alarguen en la tierra que el Señor tu Dios te da.

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, todos los que actúan injustamente, son una abominación para el Señor tu Dios.

For all who do such things, all that act unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

17 Acuérdate de lo que te hizo Amalec en el camino cuando saliste de Egipto,

Call to mind what Amalek did to you on the road as you came out of Egypt,

18 de cómo te salió al encuentro en el camino, e hirió a los últimos de vosotros, a todos los débiles que venían detrás, cuando estabas cansado y fatigado; y no temió a Dios.

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 Por lo tanto, cuando el Señor, tu Dios, te haya dado descanso de todos tus enemigos alrededor, en la tierra que el Señor, tu Dios, te da en herencia para que la poseas, borrarás la memoria de Amalec de debajo del cielo. No lo olvidarás.

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.