Deuteronomy 19
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Deuteronomio 19
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| 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; | 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; |
| You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage. | Te apartarás tres ciudades en medio de tu tierra que Jehová tu Dios te da para que la poseas. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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; | 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: |
| 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: | 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 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. | 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. |
| And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose. | Por tanto yo te mando, diciendo: Tres ciudades te apartarás. |
| 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; | 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; |
| 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: | 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; |
| 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. | Porque no sea derramada sangre inocente en medio de tu tierra, que Jehová tu Dios te da por heredad, y sea sobre ti sangre. |
| 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; | 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; |
| 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. | Entonces los ancianos de su ciudad enviarán y lo sacarán de allí, y entregarlo han en mano del pariente del muerto, y morirá. |
| 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 le perdonará tu ojo: y quitarás de Israel la sangre inocente, y te irá bien. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong, | Cuando se levantare testigo falso contra alguno, para testificar contra él rebelión, |
| 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; | Entonces los dos hombres litigantes se presentarán delante de Jehová, delante de los sacerdotes y jueces que fueren en aquellos días: |
| 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, | Y los jueces inquirirán bien, y si pareciere ser aquél testigo falso, que testificó falsamente contra su hermano, |
| Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you. | Haréis á él como él pensó hacer á su hermano: y quitarás el mal de 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 los que quedaren oirán, y temerán, y no volverán más á hacer una mala cosa como ésta, en medio de ti. |
| Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. | Y no perdonará tu ojo: vida por vida, ojo por ojo, diente por diente, mano por mano, pie por pie. |
