Deuteronomio 19
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Deuteronomy 19
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| Cuando Jehová tu Dios talare las gentes, cuya tierra Jehová tu Dios te da á ti, y tú las heredares, y habitares en sus ciudades, y en sus casas; | When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses; |
| Te apartarás tres ciudades en medio de tu tierra que Jehová tu Dios te da para que la poseas. | You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage. |
| Arreglarte has el camino, y dividirás en tres partes el término de tu tierra, que Jehová tu Dios te dará en heredad, y será para que todo homicida se huya allí. | You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight. |
| Y este es el caso del homicida que ha de huir allí, y vivirá: el que hiriere á su prójimo por yerro, que no le tenía enemistad desde ayer ni antes de ayer: | This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate; |
| Como el que fué con su prójimo al monte á cortar leña, y poniendo fuerza con su mano en el hacha para cortar algún leño, saltó el hierro del cabo, y encontró á su prójimo, y murió; aquél huirá á una de aquestas ciudades, y vivirá; | For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe: |
| No sea que el pariente del muerto vaya tras el homicida, cuando se enardeciere su corazón, y le alcance por ser largo el camino, y le hiera de muerte, no debiendo ser condenado á muerte; por cuanto no tenía enemistad desde ayer ni antes de ayer con el muerto. | For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate. |
| Por tanto yo te mando, diciendo: Tres ciudades te apartarás. | And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose. |
| Y si Jehová tu Dios ensanchare tu término, como lo juró á tus padres, y te diere toda la tierra que dijo á tus padres que había de dar; | And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers; |
| Cuando guardases todos estos mandamientos, que yo te prescribo hoy, para ponerlos por obra, que ames á Jehová tu Dios y andes en sus caminos todos los días, entonces añadirás tres ciudades á más de estas tres; | If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you: |
| Porque no sea derramada sangre inocente en medio de tu tierra, que Jehová tu Dios te da por heredad, y sea sobre ti sangre. | So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible. |
| Mas cuando hubiere alguno que aborreciere á su prójimo, y lo acechare, y se levantare sobre él, y lo hiriere de muerte, y muriere, y huyere á alguna de estas ciudades; | But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns; |
| Entonces los ancianos de su ciudad enviarán y lo sacarán de allí, y entregarlo han en mano del pariente del muerto, y morirá. | The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death. |
| No le perdonará tu ojo: y quitarás de Israel la sangre inocente, y te irá bien. | Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you. |
| No reducirás el término de tu prójimo, el cual señalaron los antiguos en tu heredad, la que poseyeres en la tierra que Jehová tu Dios te da para que la poseas. | Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you. |
| No valdrá un testigo contra ninguno en cualquier delito, ó en cualquier pecado, en cualquier pecado que se cometiere. En el dicho de dos testigos, ó en el dicho de tres testigos consistirá el negocio. | One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged. |
| Cuando se levantare testigo falso contra alguno, para testificar contra él rebelión, | If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong, |
| Entonces los dos hombres litigantes se presentarán delante de Jehová, delante de los sacerdotes y jueces que fueren en aquellos días: | Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power; |
| Y los jueces inquirirán bien, y si pareciere ser aquél testigo falso, que testificó falsamente contra su hermano, | And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother, |
| Haréis á él como él pensó hacer á su hermano: y quitarás el mal de en medio de ti. | Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you. |
| Y los que quedaren oirán, y temerán, y no volverán más á hacer una mala cosa como ésta, en medio de ti. | And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you. |
| Y no perdonará tu ojo: vida por vida, ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie. | Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. |
