1 » Cuando surja algún pleito, las partes acudirán al tribunal para que los jueces juzguen el caso, y absuelvan al inocente y condenen al culpable.

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 i el culpable merece ser azotado, el juez le ordenará tenderse en el suelo para que sea azotado en su presencia. El número de azotes dependerá del delito cometido,

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 a unque no podrá recibir más de cuarenta azotes, pues recibir más azotes sería humillante para tu compatriota.

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 » No le pondrás bozal al buey que trille.

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

5 » Cuando dos hermanos vivan juntos, y uno de ellos llega a morir sin haber procreado hijos, la viuda no podrá casarse con alguien ajeno a la familia, sino que su cuñado la tomará por esposa, se allegará a ella, y cumplirá con ella su deber de cuñado.

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 E l primer hijo que ella dé a luz recibirá el nombre del hermano muerto, para que su nombre no sea borrado 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 » Si el hermano del muerto no quiere tomar a su cuñada por esposa, ésta irá a la entrada de la ciudad y les dirá a los ancianos: “Mi cuñado no quiere perpetuar en Israel el nombre de su hermano. No quiere cumplir conmigo su deber de cuñado.”

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 la ciudad lo llamarán y hablarán con él; y si él se resiste y declara: “No quiero tomarla por esposa”,

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 e ntonces su cuñada se acercará a él y, delante de los ancianos, le quitará del pie la sandalia y le escupirá en el rostro, y dirá: “Esto se merece el hombre que no quiere mantener viva la familia 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 esta familia será conocida en Israel con el nombre de “La familia del descalzo”.

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

11 » En caso de que dos hombres riñan, si la mujer de uno de ellos se acerca para librar a su marido de ser lastimado por el otro, y alarga la mano y sujeta al otro por sus partes vergonzosas,

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 t ú no la perdonarás sino que le cortarás la mano.

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

13 » No llevarás en tu bolsa una pesa grande y una pesa chica,

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

14 n i tendrás en tu casa una medida grande y una medida pequeña.

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

15 D eberás usar pesas exactas y justas, y medidas completas y justas, para que vivas muchos años en 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 C iertamente al Señor tu Dios le repugna todo aquel que comete esta clase de injusticia. Orden de exterminar a Amalec

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

17 » Acuérdate de lo que te hizo Amalec en el camino, cuando saliste de Egipto,

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

18 y de cómo, cuando tú estabas cansado y agobiado, te salió al encuentro en el camino y, sin ningún temor de Dios, te atacó por la retaguardia e hirió a todos los que, débiles, venían a la zaga.

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 P or lo tanto, cuando ya estés en la tierra que el Señor tu Dios te da en posesión, y el Señor tu Dios te haga descansar de todos los enemigos que te rodean, borrarás de debajo del cielo la memoria de Amalec. ¡No lo 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.