Éxodo 22

EL LIBRO DEL PUEBLO DE DIOS	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Si el ladrón, sorprendido en el momento de forzar una casa, es herido de muerte, no hay delito de homicidio.	1 “If anyone will have stolen an ox or a sheep, and if he kills it or sells it, then he will restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.
2 Pero si ya había salido el sol, entonces hay delito de homicidio. El ladrón está obligado a restituir la totalidad de lo robado; si no dispone de medios para hacerlo, deberá ser vendido para compensar por su robo.	2 If a thief will have been discovered breaking into a house, or digging under it, and he has received a mortal wound, he who struck him down will not be guilty of blood.
3 Si lo robado –un buey, un asno o una oveja– se encuentra vivo en su poder, tendrá que restituir el doble.	3 But if he did this when the sun was risen, he has perpetrated a homicide, and he shall die. If he does not have the means to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold.
4 Si alguien hace pastar su ganado en un campo o una viña, y lo deja suelto de manera que este va a pastar también en campo ajeno, deberá indemnizar con los mejores productos de su campo y de su viña.	4 If whatever he stole should be found with him, a living thing, either an ox, or a donkey, or a sheep, he shall repay double.
5 Si un fuego se propaga y alcanza los matorrales, y así se destruye la cosecha ya amontonada o la que aún no había sido segada o el campo, el causante del incendio deberá indemnizar.	5 If there is any damage to a field or a vineyard, when he has released his cattle to pasture on the land of a stranger, he shall repay the best of what he has in his own field, or in his own vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.
6 Si un hombre entrega a otro en depósito dinero o algún objeto, y alguien los roba de la casa de este último, el ladrón, si es descubierto, restituirá el doble.	6 If a fire will have been discovered departing from brush, and taking hold in stacks of grain, or in crops standing in the fields, whoever ignited the fire shall repay the damages.
7 Si no se logra descubrir al ladrón, el dueño de la casa se presentará ante Dios para atestiguar que no ha puesto su mano sobre los bienes del otro.	7 If anyone will have entrusted money, or a container, to his friend to keep, and if these have been stolen from the one who received them: if the thief is found, he shall repay double.
8 En todo asunto delictivo referente a un buey, un asno, una oveja, un traje o cualquier objeto desaparecido, del cual su propietario pueda decir: «Indudablemente es este», el litigio será llevado ante Dios; y aquel a quien Dios declare culpable, restituirá al otro el doble.	8 If the thief is unknown, the lord of the house will be brought before the heavens to swear that he did not lay his hand on the goods of his neighbor,
9 Si alguien entrega a otra persona un asno, un buey, una oveja o cualquier otro animal para su custodia, y el animal muere, sufre una fractura o es sustraído en ausencia de testigos,	9 so as to perpetrate any fraud, such as with an ox, or a donkey, or a sheep, or clothing, nor to do anything that would be able to cause damage. The case of both shall be brought before the heavens. And if they give judgment against him, he shall repay double to his neighbor.
10 el depositario deber[a jurar por el Señor que no ha puesto su mano sobre la propiedad ajena. El propietario aceptará el juramento, y aquel no estará obligado a indemnizar.	10 If anyone will have entrusted a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to the keeping of his neighbor, and it will have died, or become disabled, or have been captured by enemies, and no one saw it,
11 Pero si el animal fue robado estando presente el depositario, deberá indemnizar.	11 then there shall be an oath between them, that he did not lay his hand on the goods of his neighbor. And the owner shall accept the oath, and he will not be compelled to make restitution.
12 Si el animal ha sido despedazado por una fiera, traerá como testimonio los despojos y no tendrá que indemnizar por él.	12 But if it will have been taken away by theft, he shall repay the damages to the owner.
13 Si alguien pide prestado un animal, y este sufre una fractura o muere en ausencia de su dueño, el que lo recibió en préstamo deberá indemnizar.	13 If it has been eaten by a wild beast, let him carry what was killed to him, and then he shall not make restitution.
14 Si su dueño estaba presente, no estará obligado a hacerlo. Si lo había alquilado, le pagara el precio del alquiler.	14 If anyone borrows from his neighbor any of these things, and it has died or been disabled when the owner was not present, he shall be compelled to make restitution.
15 Si un hombre seduce a una mujer virgen que no está desposada y se acuesta con ella, deberá tomarla por esposa pagando el precio debido.	15 But if the owner was present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it had been brought for hired work.
16 Si el padre de la joven se niega a dársela, el seductor pagará una suma equivalente al precio estipulado para casarse con una virgen.	16 If a man has led astray a virgin not yet betrothed, and he has slept with her, he shall pay her dowry and have her as a wife.
17 No dejarás vivir a la hechicera.	17 If the father of the virgin is not willing to give her, he shall pay money according to manner of a dowry, which virgins are accustomed to receive.
18 El que tenga trato sexual con una bestia será castigado con la muerte.	18 You shall not permit practitioners of the black arts to live.
19 El que ofrezca sacrificios a otro dios que no sea el Señor, será condenado al exterminio.	19 Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal shall be put to death.
20 No maltratarás al extranjero ni lo oprimirás, porque ustedes fueron extranjeros en Egipto.	20 Whoever immolates to gods, other than to the Lord, shall be killed.
21 No harás daño a la viuda ni al huérfano.	21 You shall not harass the newcomer, nor shall you afflict him. For you yourselves were once newcomers in the land of Egypt.
22 Si les haces daño y ellos me piden auxilio, yo escucharé su clamor.	22 You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.
23 Entonces arderá mi ira, y yo los mataré a ustedes con la espada; sus mujeres quedará viudas, y sus hijos huérfanos.	23 If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry.
24 Si prestas dinero a un miembro de mi pueblo, al pobre que vive a tu lado, no te comportarás con él como un usurero, no le exigirás interés.	24 And my fury will be enraged, and I will strike you down with the sword. And your wives will become widows, and your sons will become orphans.
25 Si tomas en prenda el manto de tu prójimo, devuélveselo antes que se ponga el sol,	25 If you lend money to the poor of my people who live among you, you shall not coerce them like a collector, nor oppress them with usury.
26 porque ese es su único abrigo y el vestido de su cuerpo. De lo contrario, ¿con qué dormirá? Y si él me invoca, yo lo escucharé, porque soy compasivo.	26 If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun.
27 No blasfemarás contra Dios, ni maldecirás a un jefe de tu pueblo.	27 For it is all that he has to cover himself, to clothe his body; nor does he have anything else in which to sleep. If he cries out to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.
28 No demorarás en ofrecer las primicias de la cosecha y de la vendimia. Me darás a tu hijo primogénito.	28 You shall not disparage the heavens, and you shall not speak evil of the leader of your people.
29 Lo mismo deberás hacer con tu ganado mayor y tu ganado menor: el primogénito estará siete días con su madre, y al octavo día me lo darás.	29 You shall not delay in paying your tithes and your first-fruits. You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.
30 Ustedes estarán consagrados a mí. No coman carne de un animal despedazado por una fiera, sino arrójenla a los perros.	30 You shall do likewise with those of the oxen and the sheep. For seven days, let it be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall repay it to me.
	31 You shall be holy men for me. The flesh, from which beasts will have tasted, you shall not eat, but you will throw it to the dogs.”