1 ¶ Cuando hubiere pleito entre algunos, y vinieren a juicio, y los juzgaren, y absolvieren al justo y condenaren al inicuo,

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

2 s erá que, si el impío mereciere ser azotado, entonces el juez lo hará echar en tierra, y le hará azotar delante de sí, según su impiedad, por cuenta.

It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

3 C uarenta veces lo hará herir, no más; no sea que, si lo hiriere con muchos azotes a más de éstos, tu hermano sería menospreciado delante de tus ojos.

He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

4 N o pondrás bozal al buey cuando trillare.

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

5 ¶ Cuando hermanos moran juntos, y muriere alguno de ellos, y no tuviere hijo, la mujer del muerto no se casará fuera con hombre extraño; su cuñado se llegará a ella, y la tomará por su mujer, y hará con ella parentesco.

If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

6 Y será que el primogénito que ella diere a luz, se levantará en nombre de su hermano el muerto, para que el nombre de éste no sea raído de Israel.

It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

7 Y si el hombre no quisiere tomar a su cuñada, irá entonces la cuñada a la puerta donde están los ancianos, y dirá: Mi cuñado no quiere suscitar nombre en Israel a su hermano; no quiere emparentar conmigo.

If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

8 E ntonces los ancianos de aquella ciudad lo harán venir, y hablarán con él; y si él se levantare, y dijere: No quiero tomarla,

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her”;

9 s e acercará entonces su cuñada a él delante de los ancianos, y le descalzará el zapato de su pie, y le escupirá en el rostro, y hablará y dirá: Así será hecho al varón que no edificare la casa de su hermano.

then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

10 Y su nombre será llamado en Israel: La casa del descalzado.

His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his shoe removed.”

11 C uando algunos riñeren juntos el uno con el otro, y llegare la mujer del uno para librar a su marido de mano del que le hiere, y metiere su mano y le trabare de sus vergüenzas;

When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and takes him by his private parts,

12 l e cortarás entonces la mano, no la perdonará tu ojo.

then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

13 ¶ No tendrás en tu bolsa pesa grande y pesa chica.

You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

14 N o tendrás en tu casa efa grande y efa pequeño.

You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.

15 P esas perfectas y justas tendrás; efa perfecto y justo tendrás; para que tus días sean prolongados sobre la tierra que el SEÑOR tu Dios te da.

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

16 P orque abominación es al SEÑOR tu Dios cualquiera que hace esto, cualquiera que hace injusticia.

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

17 A cuérdate de lo que te hizo Amalec en el camino, cuando salisteis de Egipto;

Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;

18 q ue te salió al camino, y te desbarató la retaguardia de todos los débiles que iban detrás de ti, cuando tú estabas cansado y trabajado; y no temió a Dios.

how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

19 S erá, pues, cuando el SEÑOR tu Dios te hubiere dado reposo de tus enemigos alrededor, en la tierra que el SEÑOR tu Dios te da por heredar para que la poseas, que raerás la memoria de Amalec de debajo del cielo; no te olvides.

Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.