Exodo, 21

1. Estas con las normas que has de dar:

1. "Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

2. Cuando compres un esclavo hebreo, servirá seis años, y el séptimo quedará libre sin pagar rescate.

2. When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.

3. Si entró solo, solo saldrá; si tenía mujer, su mujer saldrá con él.

3. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.

4. Si su amo le dio mujer, y ella le dio a luz hijos o hijas, la mujer y sus hijos serán del amo, y él saldrá solo.

4. 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 alone.

5. Si el esclavo declara: «Yo quiero a mi señor, a mi mujer y a mis hijos; renucio a la libertad»

5. But if the slave plainly says, `I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,'

6. su amo le llevará ante Dios y, arrimándolo a la puerta o a la jamba, su amo le horadará la oreja con una lezna; y quedará a su servicio para siempre.

6. then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for life.

7. Si un hombre vende a su hija por esclava, ésta no saldrá de la esclavitud como salen los esclavos.

7. "When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.

8. Si no agrada a su señor que la había destinado para sí, éste permitirá su rescate; y no podrá venderla a gente extraña, tratándola con engaño.

8. If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt faithlessly with her.

9. Si la destina para su hijo, le dará el mismo trato que a sus hijas.

9. If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.

10. Si toma para sí otra mujer, no le disminuirá a la primera la comida, ni el vestido ni los derechos conyugales.

10. If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

11. Y si no le da estas tres cosas, ella podrá salirse de balde sin pagar rescate.

11. And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

12. El que hiera mortalmente a otro, morirá;

12. "Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.

13. pero si no estaba al acecho, sino que Dios se lo puso al alcance de la mano, yo te señalaré un lugar donde éste pueda refugiarse.

13. But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.

14. Pero al que se atreva a matar a su prójimo con alevosía, hasta de mi altar le arrancarás para matarle.

14. But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him treacherously, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

15. El que pegue a su padre o a su madre morirá.

15. "Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

16. Quien rapte a una persona - la haya vendido o esté todavía en su poder - morirá.

16. "Whoever steals a man, whether he sells him or is found in possession of him, shall be put to death.

17. Quien maldiga a su padre o a su madre morirá.

17. "Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.

18. Si dos hombres riñen y uno hiere a otro con una piedra o con el puño, pero no muere, sino que, después de guardar cama,

18. "When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but keeps his bed,

19. puede levantarse y andar por la calle, apoyado en su bastón, el que le hirió quedará exculpado, pero pagará el tiempo perdido y los gastos de la curación completa.

19. then if the man rises again and walks abroad with his staff, he that struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.

20. Si un hombre golpea a su siervo o a su sierva con un palo y muere a sus manos, cae bajo la ley de venganza.

20. "When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished.

21. Pero si sobrevive un día o dos, no será vengado, pues lo había comprado con dinero.

21. But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be punished; for the slave is his money.

22. Si unos hombres, en el curso de una riña, dan un golpe a una mujer encinta, y provocan el parto sin más daño, el culpable será multado conforme a lo que imponga el marido de la mujer y mediante arbitrio.

22. "When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

23. Pero si resultare daño, darás vida por vida,

23. If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,

24. ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie,

24. eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25. quemadura por quemadura, herida por herida, cardenal por cardenal.

25. burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26. Si un hombre hiere a su siervo o a su sierva en el ojo y le deja tuerto, le dará libertad en compensación del ojo.

26. "When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free for the eye's sake.

27. Si uno salta un diente a su siervo o a su sierva, le pondrá en libertad en compensación del diente.

27. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free for the tooth's sake.

28. Si un buey acornea a un hombre o a una mujer, y le causa la muerte, el buey será apedreado, y no se comerá su carne, pero el dueño del buey quedará exculpado.

28. "When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be clear.

29. Mas si el buey acorneaba ya desde tiempo atrás, y su dueño, aun advertido, no le vigiló, y ese buey mata a un hombre o a una mujer, el buey será apedreado, y también su dueño morirá.

29. But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

30. Si se le impone un precio por ello, dará en rescate de su vida cuanto le impongan.

30. If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him.

31. Si acornea a un muchacho o a una muchacha, se seguirá esta misma norma.

31. If it gores a man's son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.

32. Si el buey acornea a un siervo o a una sierva, se pagarán treinta siclos de plata al dueño de ellos, y el buey será apedreado.

32. If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

33. Si un hombre deja abierto un pozo, o si cava un pozo y no lo tapa, y cae en él un buey o un asno,

33. "When a man leaves a pit open, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it,

34. el propietario del pozo pagará al dueño de ellos el precio en dinero, y el animal muerto será suyo.

34. the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.

35. Si el buey de uno acornea al buey de otro, causándole la muerte, venderán el buey vivo y se repartirán el precio, repartiendo igualmente el buey muerto.

35. "When one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the price of it; and the dead beast also they shall divide.

36. Pero si era notorio que el buey acorneaba desde tiempo atrás, y su dueño no le vigiló, pargará buey por buey y el buey muerto será suyo.

36. Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.

37. Si un hombre roba un buey o una oveja, y los mata o vende, pagará cinco bueyes por el buey, y cuatro ovejas por la oveja.

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