Deuteronomio 15
1 Al cabo de los siete años harás remisión.
You are to cancel debts the end of every seven years.
2 Y esta es la manera de la remisión: Dejará a su deudor todo aquel que emprestó de su mano, con que adeudó a su prójimo: no lo tornará a demandar a su prójimo, o a su hermano; porque la remisión de Jehová es pregonada.
This is the way the it will work: If you provided a loan to someone you must cancel it. You are not allowed to collect anything from another Israelite, because the Lord's time of debt cancelation has been announced.
3 Del extranjero tornarás a demandar: mas lo que tuviere tuyo tu hermano, soltarlo ha tu mano.
You are allowed to collect payments from a foreigner, but you must cancel whatever your fellow Israelite owes you.
4 Solamente porque no haya en ti mendigo: porque bendiciendo te bendecirá Jehová en la tierra, que Jehová tu Dios te da por heredad para que la poseas:
However, you shouldn't have poor people among you, for the Lord will really bless you in the country that the Lord your God is giving you to own.
5 Si empero oyendo oyeres la voz de Jehová tu Dios, para que guardes y hagas todos estos mandamientos, que yo te mando hoy:
You just need to make sure you obey the Lord your God, and that you're careful to follow all these commandments I'm giving you today.
6 Porque Jehová tu Dios te bendijo, como te había dicho: y emprestarás a muchas gentes, mas tú no tomarás emprestado: y enseñorearte has de muchas gentes, y de ti no se enseñorearán.
The Lord your God is going to bless you as he promised. You will lend money to many nations but you won't need to borrow from any of them; you will rule over many nations but you won't be ruled by them.
7 Cuando hubiere en ti mendigo de tus hermanos en alguna de tus ciudades, en tu tierra que Jehová tu Dios te da, no endurecerás tu corazón, ni cerrarás tu mano a tu hermano mendigo;
If there are Israelites who are poor in any of your towns in the country the Lord your God is giving you, then you must not be unfeeling or miserly towards them.
8 Mas abriendo abrirás a él tu mano, y emprestando le emprestarás asaz lo que hubiere menester.
On the contrary. You should be generous to them, and lend them whatever they need.
9 Guárdate que no haya en tu corazón perverso pensamiento, diciendo: Cerca está el año séptimo de la remisión: y tu ojo sea maligno sobre tu hermano menesteroso para no darle: que él clamará contra ti a Jehová y serte ha por pecado.
Make sure you don't think evil thoughts like, “The seventh year is coming up when debts will be canceled,” so that you look down on the poor with a sneer and refuse to give them anything. They will complain to the Lord about you, and you will be found guilty of sin.
10 Dando le darás, y tu corazón no sea maligno cuando le dieres, que por esto te bendecirá Jehová tu Dios en todos tus hechos y en todo lo que pusieres mano.
Give and give again to them, and don't feel irritated when you give. When you give generously the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you decide to do.
11 Porque no faltarán menesterosos de en medio de la tierra, por tanto yo te mando, diciendo: Abrirás tu mano a tu hermano, a tu pobre, y a tu menesteroso en tu tierra.
You will always have those who are poor and in need among you, so that's why I'm telling you to give generously to them.
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.
If a Hebrew, one of your own people, whether man or woman, sells themselves to you as a slave and works for you for six years, you have to free them in the seventh year.
13 Y cuando le enviares de ti libre, no le enviarás vacío:
And when you free them, don't send them away with nothing.
14 Cargando le cargarás, de tus ovejas, y de tu era, y de tu lagar: en lo que te hubiere bendecido Jehová de ello le darás.
Give them plenty of gifts: animals from your flocks, grain from your threshing floor, and wine from your winepress. Give to them as generously as the Lord your God has blessed you.
15 Y acordarte has, que fuiste siervo en tierra de Egipto, y que Jehová tu Dios te rescató: por tanto yo te mando hoy esto.
Don't forget that you were once slaves in Egypt, and the Lord your God set you free. That's why I'm giving you this command today.
16 Y será, que si él te dijere: No saldré de contigo: porque te amó a ti y a tu casa, que le va bien contigo;
However, if your male slave tells you, “I don't want to leave you,” because he loves you and your family and is better off staying with you,
17 Entonces tomarás una lesna, y darás en su oreja y en la puerta; y serte ha siervo para siempre: así también harás a tu criada.
then use a metal tool to pierce his ear against the door, and he will be your slave for life. Do the same for your female slave.
18 No te parezca duro, cuando le enviares libre de ti, que doblado del salario de mozo de soldada te sirvió seis años: y Jehová tu Dios te bendecirá en todo cuanto hicieres.
Don't see it as a problem to free your slave, because your slave's six years of service to you was worth twice what you would have paid to hire someone. The Lord your God will bless you in everything you do for acting in this way.
19 Todo primogénito que nacerá en tus vacas y en tus ovejas, el macho santificarás a Jehová tu Dios: no te sirvas del primogénito de tus vacas, ni trasquiles el primogénito de tus ovejas.
You are to separate out to give the Lord your God all the firstborn males of your herds and flocks. You must not have the firstborn of your cattle work, and don't shear the firstborn of your sheep.
20 Delante de Jehová tu Dios los comerás cada un año en el lugar que Jehová escogiere, tú y tu casa.
Every year you and your family are to eat these animals that have been sacrificed in the presence of the Lord your God in the place that the Lord will choose.
21 Y si hubiere en él falta, ciego, o cojo, o cualquiera otra mala falta, no lo sacrificarás a Jehová tu Dios.
However, if an animal has some defect or is lame or blind, in fact if it has any serious defect at all, you are not to sacrifice it to the Lord your God.
22 En tus villas lo comerás, inmundo y limpio también comerán de él como de un corzo, o de un ciervo.
Eat it at home. All of you, whether you're ceremonially clean or not, can it eat it just like you would eat a gazelle or a deer,
23 Solamente que no comas su sangre: sobre la tierra derramarás como agua.
but you are not to eat the blood—pour that out on the ground.
