Deuteronomio 7
1 Cuando Jehová tu Dios te hubiere metido en la tierra en la cual tú has de entrar para heredarla, y hubiere echado las muchas gentes de delante de tu presencia, al Jetteo, y al Gergeseo, y al Amorreo, y al Cananeo, y al Ferezeo, y al Heveo, y al Jebuseo, siete naciones muchas y fuertes más que tú;
When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;
2 Y Jehová tu Dios las hubiere entregado delante de ti, y las hirieres, destruyendo las destruirás: no harás con ellos alianza, ni los tomarás a merced:
And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
3 Y no consuegrarás con ellos: no darás tu hija a su hijo, ni tomarás su hija para tu hijo;
Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.
4 Porque tirará a tu hijo de en pos de mí, y servirán a dioses ajenos; y el furor de Jehová se encenderá sobre vosotros, y destruirte ha presto.
For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
5 Sino así haréis con ellos: Sus altares destruiréis, y sus estatuas quebraréis, y cortaréis sus bosques, y sus esculturas quemaréis en el fuego.
But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.
6 Porque tú eres pueblo santo a Jehová tu Dios: Jehová tu Dios te ha escogido para ser a él un pueblo singular más que todos los pueblos, que están sobre la haz de la tierra.
For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
7 No por ser vosotros más que todos los pueblos, os ha codiciado Jehová, y os ha escogido: porque vosotros eráis los más pocos de todos los pueblos:
The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
8 Mas porque Jehová os amó, y quiso guardar el juramento que juró a vuestros padres, os sacó Jehová con mano fuerte, y os rescató de casa de siervos, de la mano de Faraón rey de Egipto.
But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
9 Y para que sepas que Jehová tu Dios es Dios, Dios fiel, que guarda el concierto y la misericordia a los que le aman, y guardan sus mandamientos hasta las mil generaciones:
Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;
10 Y que paga en su cara al que le aborrece, destruyéndole: ni dilatará al que le aborrece, en su cara le pagará.
Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his hater, but will give him open punishment.
11 Guarda pues los mandamientos, y estatutos, y derechos que yo te mando hoy que hagas.
So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.
12 Y será, que por haber oído estos derechos, y guardado, y hécholos, Jehová tu Dios guardará contigo el concierto y la misericordia, que juró a tus padres:
And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.
13 Y amarte ha, y bendecirte ha, y multiplicarte ha: y bendecirá el fruto de tu vientre, y el fruto de tu tierra, y tu grano, y tu mosto, y tu aceite, la cria de tus vacas, y los rebaños de tus ovejas en la tierra, que juró a tus padres que te daría.
And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.
14 Bendito serás más que todos los pueblos: no habrá en ti estéril macho ni hembra, ni en tus bestias.
You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.
15 Y quitará de ti Jehová toda enfermedad, y todas las malas plagas de Egipto, que tú sabes: no las pondrá sobre ti, antes las pondrá sobre todos los que te aborrecieren.
And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters.
16 Y consumirás a todos los pueblos, que Jehová tu Dios te da: no los perdonará tu ojo: no servirás a sus dioses, que te será tropezón.
And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
17 Cuando dijeres en tu corazón: Aquellas gentes son muchas más que yo, ¿cómo las podré yo desarraigar?
If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?
18 No tengas temor de ellos, acuérdate bien de lo que hizo Jehová tu Dios con Faraón, y con todo Egipto:
Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
19 De las grandes pruebas que vieron tus ojos, y de las señales y milagros, y de la mano fuerte, y brazo extendido con que Jehová tu Dios te sacó: así hará Jehová tu Dios con todos los pueblos de cuya presencia tú temieres.
The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.
20 Y también enviará Jehová tu Dios sobre ellos avispas hasta que perezcan los que quedaren, y los que se hubieren escondido de delante de ti.
And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.
21 No desmayes delante de ellos, que Jehová tu Dios está en medio de ti, Dios grande y temeroso.
Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.
22 Y Jehová tu Dios echará estas gentes de delante de ti poco a poco: no las podrás acabar luego: porque las bestias del campo no se aumenten contra ti.
The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.
23 Mas Jehová tu Dios las entregará delante de ti, y él las quebrantará de un gran quebrantamiento, hasta que sean destruidos.
But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.
24 Y él entregará sus reyes en tu mano, y tú destruirás el nombre de ellos de debajo del cielo: nadie parará delante de ti hasta que los destruyas.
He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.
25 Las esculturas de sus dioses quemarás en el fuego, no codiciarás plata ni oro de sobre ellas para tomártelo, porque no tropieces en ello, porque es abominación a Jehová tu Dios.
The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:
26 Y no meterás abominación en tu casa, porque no seas tú anatema como ello: aborreciendo lo aborrecerás, y abominando lo abominarás, porque es anatema.
And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
