1 C uando Jehová tu Dios te haya introducido en la tierra en la cual entrarás para tomarla, y haya echado de delante de ti a muchas naciones, al heteo, al gergeseo, al amorreo, al cananeo, al ferezeo, al heveo y al jebuseo, siete naciones mayores y más poderosas que tú,

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many 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 mightier than you,

2 y Jehová tu Dios las haya entregado delante de ti, y las hayas derrotado, las destruirás del todo; no harás con ellas alianza, ni tendrás de ellas misericordia.

and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.

3 Y no emparentarás con ellas; no darás tu hija a su hijo, ni tomarás a su hija para tu hijo.

Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.

4 P orque desviará a tu hijo de en pos de mí, y servirán a dioses ajenos; y el furor de Jehová se encenderá sobre vosotros, y te destruirá pronto.

For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.

5 M as así habéis de hacer con ellos: sus altares destruiréis, y quebraréis sus estatuas, y destruiréis sus imágenes de Asera, y quemaréis sus esculturas en el fuego. Un pueblo santo para Jehová

But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

6 P orque tú eres pueblo santo para Jehová tu Dios; Jehová tu Dios te ha escogido para serle un pueblo especial, más que todos los pueblos que están sobre la tierra.

“For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.

7 N o por ser vosotros más que todos los pueblos os ha querido Jehová y os ha escogido, pues vosotros erais el más insignificante de todos los pueblos;

The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;

8 s ino por cuanto Jehová os amó, y quiso guardar el juramento que juró a vuestros padres, os ha sacado Jehová con mano poderosa, y os ha rescatado de servidumbre, de la mano de Faraón rey de Egipto.

but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 C onoce, pues, que Jehová tu Dios es Dios, Dios fiel, que guarda el pacto y la misericordia a los que le aman y guardan sus mandamientos, hasta mil generaciones;

“Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

10 y que da el pago en persona al que le aborrece, destruyéndolo; y no se demora con el que le odia, en persona le dará el pago.

and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.

11 G uarda, por tanto, los mandamientos, estatutos y decretos que yo te mando hoy que cumplas. Bendiciones de la obediencia (Lv. 26. 3-13; Dt. 28. 1-14)

Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them. Blessings of Obedience

12 Y por haber oído estos decretos y haberlos guardado y puesto por obra, Jehová tu Dios guardará contigo el pacto y la misericordia que juró a tus padres.

“Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.

13 Y te amará, te bendecirá y te multiplicará, y bendecirá el fruto de tu vientre y el fruto de tu tierra, tu grano, tu mosto, tu aceite, la cría de tus vacas, y los rebaños de tus ovejas, en la tierra que juró a tus padres que te daría.

And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.

14 B endito serás más que todos los pueblos; no habrá en ti varón ni hembra estéril, ni en tus ganados.

You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.

15 Y quitará Jehová de ti toda enfermedad; y todas las malas plagas de Egipto, que tú conoces, no las pondrá sobre ti, antes las pondrá sobre todos los que te aborrecieren.

And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

16 Y consumirás a todos los pueblos que te da Jehová tu Dios; no los perdonará tu ojo, ni servirás a sus dioses, porque te será tropiezo.

Also you shall destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

17 S i dijeres en tu corazón: Estas naciones son mucho más numerosas que yo; ¿cómo las podré exterminar?

“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’—

18 n o tengas temor de ellas; acuérdate bien de lo que hizo Jehová tu Dios con Faraón y con todo Egipto;

you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt:

19 d e las grandes pruebas que vieron tus ojos, y de las señales y milagros, y de la mano poderosa y el 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 trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

20 T ambién enviará Jehová tu Dios avispas sobre ellos, hasta que perezcan los que quedaren y los que se hubieren escondido de delante de ti.

Moreover the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.

21 N o desmayes delante de ellos, porque Jehová tu Dios está en medio de ti, Dios grande y temible.

You shall not be terrified of them; for the Lord your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.

22 Y Jehová tu Dios echará a estas naciones de delante de ti poco a poco; no podrás acabar con ellas en seguida, para que las fieras del campo no se aumenten contra ti.

And the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

23 M as Jehová tu Dios las entregará delante de ti, y él las quebrantará con grande destrozo, hasta que sean destruidas.

But the Lord your God will deliver them over to you, and will inflict defeat upon them until they are destroyed.

24 E l entregará sus reyes en tu mano, y tú destruirás el nombre de ellos de debajo del cielo; nadie te hará frente hasta que los destruyas.

And He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will destroy their name from under heaven; no one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.

25 L as esculturas de sus dioses quemarás en el fuego; no codiciarás plata ni oro de ellas para tomarlo para ti, para que no tropieces en ello, pues es abominación a Jehová tu Dios;

You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

26 y no traerás cosa abominable a tu casa, para que no seas anatema; del todo la aborrecerás y la abominarás, porque es anatema.

Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly abhor it, for it is an accursed thing.