Deuteronomio 15

1 Al cabo de los siete años harás remisión.

At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.

2 Y ésta es la manera de la remisión: perdonará a su deudor todo aquél que hizo empréstito de su mano, con que adeudó a su prójimo; no lo demandará más a su prójimo, o a su hermano; porque la remisión del SEÑOR es pregonada.

And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends something to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.

3 Del extranjero demandarás el reintegro; mas lo que tu hermano tuviere tuyo, lo soltará tu mano,

Of a foreigner you may exact it again: but that which is your with your brother your hand shall release;

4 para que así no haya en ti mendigo; porque el SEÑOR te bendecirá con abundancia en la tierra que Dios te da por heredad para que la poseas,

Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it:

5 si empero escuchares fielmente la voz del SEÑOR tu Dios, para guardar y cumplir todos estos mandamientos que yo te mando hoy.

Only if you carefully listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this day.

6 Ya que el SEÑOR tu Dios te habrá bendecido, como te ha dicho, prestarás entonces a muchos gentiles, mas tú no tomarás prestado; y te enseñorearás de muchos gentiles, pero de ti no se enseñorearán.

For the LORD your God blesses you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over you.

7 Si hubiere en ti mendigo de entre tus hermanos en alguna de tus ciudades, en tu tierra que el SEÑOR tu Dios te da, no endurecerás tu corazón, ni cerrarás tu mano a tu hermano mendigo.

If there be among you a poor man of one of your brothers 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 Mas abrirás a él tu mano liberalmente, y le prestarás todo lo que necesite en lo que hubiere menester.

But you shall open your hand wide to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wants.

9 Guárdate que no haya en tu corazón perverso pensamiento, diciendo: Cerca está el año séptimo, el de la remisión; y tu ojo sea maligno sobre tu hermano menesteroso para no darle; porque él clamará contra ti al SEÑOR, y te será por pecado.

Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked 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 Sin falta le darás, y no sea tu corazón maligno cuando le dieres; que por ello te bendecirá el SEÑOR tu Dios en todos tus hechos, y en todo lo que pusiereis mano.

You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him: because that for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.

11 Porque no faltarán menesterosos de en medio de la tierra; por eso yo te mando, diciendo: Abrirás tu mano a tu hermano, a tu pobre, y a tu menesteroso en tu tierra.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor, and to your needy, in your land.

12 Cuando se vendiere a ti tu hermano hebreo o hebrea, y te hubiere servido seis años, al séptimo año le enviarás de ti libre.

And if your brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

13 Y cuando lo enviares de ti libre, no lo enviarás vacío.

And when you send him out free from you, you shall not let him go away empty:

14 Le abastecerás liberalmente de tus ovejas, de tu era, y de tu lagar; le darás de aquello en que el SEÑOR te hubiere bendecido.

You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your floor, and out of your wine press: of that with which the LORD your God has blessed you you shall give to him.

15 Y te acordarás que fuiste siervo en la tierra de Egipto, y que el SEÑOR tu Dios te rescató; por tanto yo te mando esto hoy.

And 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 to day.

16 Y será que, si él te dijere: No saldré de contigo; porque te ama a ti y a tu casa, que le va bien contigo;

And it shall be, if he say to you, I will not go away from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

17 entonces tomarás una lesna, y horadarás su oreja junto a la puerta, y será tu siervo para siempre; así también harás a tu criada.

Then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant for ever. And also to your maidservant you shall do likewise.

18 No te parezca duro cuando le enviares libre de ti; que por la mitad del costo del jornalero te sirvió seis años; y el SEÑOR tu Dios te bendecirá en todo cuanto hicieres.

It shall not seem hard to you, when you send him away free from you; for he has been worth a double hired servant to you, in serving you six years: and the LORD your God shall bless you in all that you do.

19 Santificarás al SEÑOR tu Dios todo primerizo macho que nacerá de tus vacas y de tus ovejas; no te sirvas del primerizo de tus vacas, ni trasquiles el primerizo de tus ovejas.

All the firstling males that come of your herd and of your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God: you shall do no work with the firstling of your bullock, nor shear the firstling of your sheep.

20 Delante del SEÑOR tu Dios los comerás cada año, tú y tu casa, en el lugar que el SEÑOR escogiere.

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 Y si hubiere en él tacha, si fuere ciego o cojo, o hubiere en él cualquier falta maligna, no lo sacrificarás al SEÑOR tu Dios.

And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

22 En tus poblaciones lo comerás; el inmundo lo mismo que el limpio comerán de él, como de un corzo o de un ciervo.

You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.

23 Solamente que no comas su sangre; sobre la tierra la derramarás como agua.

Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it on the ground as water.