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Éxodo 23
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Éxodo 23
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Justicia para todos
23 »No mientan ni den informes falsos que ayuden al malvado a engañar a los jueces.
2 »No hagan lo malo, sólo porque la mayoría de la gente lo hace.
»Si en un pleito legal hacen declaraciones ante un jurado, no digan mentiras como la mayoría de la gente. Digan la verdad. 3 Pero tampoco mientan para ayudar a un pobre en un juicio sólo por ser pobre.
4 »Si ven que algún buey o burro anda perdido, devuélvanselo al dueño, aunque éste sea enemigo de ustedes.
5 »Si ven que un burro ha caído porque no aguanta el peso de su carga, quítensela, aunque el dueño sea enemigo de ustedes.
6 »Si tienen que resolver algún asunto legal, no sean injustos con los pobres.
7 »No acusen a una persona diciendo mentiras, ni condenen a muerte a la gente inocente y honesta, porque yo no consideraré inocente al culpable.
8 »No acepten dinero de nadie que les pida hacer algo injusto. Esa clase de dinero hace que la gente pierda su honradez, y que los jueces condenen al inocente.
9 »No maltraten ni esclavicen al refugiado, pues ustedes también fueron extranjeros en Egipto, y ya saben lo que es vivir como esclavos en otro país.
Leyes sobre el descanso
10 »Durante seis años podrán cultivar la tierra y recoger sus cosechas, 11 pero el séptimo año deberán dejarla descansar. Si la tierra produce algo por sí sola, eso lo dejarán para alimento de la gente pobre, y para que los animales salvajes coman lo que sobre. Lo mismo harán con sus plantaciones de uvas y de olivos.
12 »Durante seis días podrán trabajar y hacer todo lo que quieran, pero el séptimo día deberán descansar. Así podrán descansar sus esclavos y sus bueyes y sus burros, y también los extranjeros que trabajen para ustedes.
13 »Cumplan con todas estas leyes, y jamás pidan la ayuda de otros dioses; ni siquiera pronuncien su nombre.
Leyes acerca de las fiestas religiosas
14 »Cada año harán tres fiestas religiosas en mi honor.
15 »La fiesta de los panes sin levadura la celebrarán en el mes de Abib,[a] porque en ese mes salieron de Egipto. La fiesta durará siete días, y en todo ese tiempo el pan que coman será sin levadura. Quien venga a adorarme, deberá también traerme una ofrenda.
16 »Durante la cosecha celebrarán dos fiestas. La primera será cuando cosechen los primeros frutos de sus siembras, y la segunda será cuando cosechen todo lo que hayan sembrado, es decir, al terminar el año.
17 »Todos los varones adultos deberán presentarse ante mí durante esas tres fiestas.
18 »Cuando maten animales en mi honor, no ofrezcan al mismo tiempo pan con levadura y la sangre del animal, ni guarden la grasa para el día siguiente.
19 »Las ofrendas que traigan a mi templo serán de los mejores primeros frutos que produzcan sus campos.
»No cocinen cabritos en la leche de su madre».
Promesas y advertencias
20 Dios también les dijo:
«Yo enviaré a mi ángel para que los proteja y los guíe en el camino que habrán de seguir para llegar al lugar que les he preparado. 21 Obedézcanlo siempre, porque yo mismo le he dado autoridad para actuar en mi lugar; él los castigará si no lo obedecen. 22 Si lo obedecen en todo, trataré con dureza a los enemigos de ustedes. 23 Mi ángel los llevará al país de Canaán, donde ahora viven muchos pueblos, a los cuales destruiré por completo.
24 »Ustedes no deben adorar a los dioses de esos pueblos. Al contrario, deben destruir sus ídolos y sus altares.
25 »Adórenme, pues yo soy su Dios. Yo los bendeciré con abundantes alimentos. Nunca dejaré que se enfermen 26 ni que mueran siendo jóvenes. Todas las mujeres de Israel podrán tener hijos, y todos sus hijos nacerán bien.
27-28 »Cuando ustedes lleguen al país de Canaán, haré que sus habitantes se llenen de miedo y huyan. Y antes de que ustedes lleguen, enviaré avispas, para que ataquen a sus enemigos. 29-30 Pero no echaré a sus enemigos en el primer año, sino que lo haré poco a poco. Si lo hiciera de una vez, las tierras se echarían a perder y se llenarían de animales salvajes. Lo mejor es esperar a que ustedes tengan muchos hijos y ocupen todo el país.
31 »El territorio que les voy a dar se extenderá desde el Mar de los Juncos hasta el mar Mediterráneo, y desde el desierto hasta el río Éufrates. Ustedes dominarán a todos los que viven allí, y los sacarán de ese territorio.
32-33 »No tengan ningún trato con esa gente ni los dejen seguir viviendo entre ustedes, pues de lo contrario los harán pecar contra mí. Tampoco adoren a sus dioses, porque si lo hacen podrían perder la vida».
Footnotes
- Éxodo 23:15 Abib: Primer mes del calendario lunar judío. En nuestro calendario solar corresponde al período que va de mediados de marzo a mediados de abril.
Exodus 23
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Exodus 23
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Laws of Justice and Mercy
23 “Do not spread false reports.(A) Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.(B)
2 “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice(C) by siding with the crowd,(D) 3 and do not show favoritism(E) to a poor person in a lawsuit.
4 “If you come across your enemy’s(F) ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.(G) 5 If you see the donkey(H) of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
6 “Do not deny justice(I) to your poor people in their lawsuits. 7 Have nothing to do with a false charge(J) and do not put an innocent(K) or honest person to death,(L) for I will not acquit the guilty.(M)
8 “Do not accept a bribe,(N) for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.
9 “Do not oppress a foreigner;(O) you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
Sabbath Laws
10 “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, 11 but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused.(P) Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
12 “Six days do your work,(Q) but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.(R)
13 “Be careful(S) to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods;(T) do not let them be heard on your lips.(U)
The Three Annual Festivals
14 “Three times(V) a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread;(W) for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,(X) for in that month you came out of Egypt.
“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.(Y)
16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest(Z) with the firstfruits(AA) of the crops you sow in your field.
“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering(AB) at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.(AC)
17 “Three times(AD) a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.
18 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.(AE)
“The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.(AF)
19 “Bring the best of the firstfruits(AG) of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.(AH)
God’s Angel to Prepare the Way
20 “See, I am sending an angel(AI) ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.(AJ) 21 Pay attention to him and listen(AK) to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive(AL) your rebellion,(AM) since my Name(AN) is in him. 22 If you listen carefully to what he says and do(AO) all that I say, I will be an enemy(AP) to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you. 23 My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites,(AQ) and I will wipe them out. 24 Do not bow down before their gods or worship(AR) them or follow their practices.(AS) You must demolish(AT) them and break their sacred stones(AU) to pieces. 25 Worship the Lord your God,(AV) and his blessing(AW) will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness(AX) from among you, 26 and none will miscarry or be barren(AY) in your land. I will give you a full life span.(AZ)
27 “I will send my terror(BA) ahead of you and throw into confusion(BB) every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run.(BC) 28 I will send the hornet(BD) ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites(BE) out of your way. 29 But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals(BF) too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession(BG) of the land.
31 “I will establish your borders from the Red Sea[a] to the Mediterranean Sea,[b] and from the desert to the Euphrates River.(BH) I will give into your hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out(BI) before you. 32 Do not make a covenant(BJ) with them or with their gods. 33 Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare(BK) to you.”
Footnotes
- Exodus 23:31 Or the Sea of Reeds
- Exodus 23:31 Hebrew to the Sea of the Philistines
Exodus 23
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Exodus 23
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Justice for All
23 “You (A)shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an (B)unrighteous witness. 2 (C)You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; (D)nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice. 3 You shall not show partiality to a (E)poor man in his dispute.
4 (F)“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. 5 (G)If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.
6 (H)“You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute. 7 (I)Keep yourself far from a false matter; (J)do not kill the innocent and righteous. For (K)I will not justify the wicked. 8 And (L)you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
9 “Also (M)you shall not oppress a [a]stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
The Law of Sabbaths
10 (N)“Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce, 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your [b]olive grove. 12 (O)Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
13 “And in all that I have said to you, (P)be circumspect and (Q)make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.
Three Annual Feasts(R)
14 (S)“Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: 15 (T)You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; (U)none shall appear before Me empty); 16 (V)and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and (W)the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.
17 (X)“Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord [c]God.
18 (Y)“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened (Z)bread; nor shall the fat of My [d]sacrifice remain until morning. 19 (AA)The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. (AB)You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
The Angel and the Promises
20 (AC)“Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of Him and obey His voice; (AD)do not provoke Him, for He will (AE)not pardon your transgressions; for (AF)My name is in Him. 22 But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then (AG)I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. 23 (AH)For My Angel will go before you and (AI)bring you in to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will [e]cut them off. 24 You shall not (AJ)bow down to their gods, nor serve them, (AK)nor do according to their works; (AL)but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
25 “So you shall (AM)serve the Lord your God, and (AN)He will bless your bread and your water. And (AO)I will take sickness away from the midst of you. 26 (AP)No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will (AQ)fulfill the number of your days.
27 “I will send (AR)My fear before you, I will (AS)cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 And (AT)I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you. 29 (AU)I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land. 31 And (AV)I will set your [f]bounds from the Red Sea to the sea, Philistia, and from the desert to the [g]River. For I will (AW)deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32 (AX)You shall make no [h]covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, (AY)it will surely be a snare to you.”
Footnotes
- Exodus 23:9 sojourner
- Exodus 23:11 olive yards
- Exodus 23:17 Heb. YHWH, usually translated Lord
- Exodus 23:18 feast
- Exodus 23:23 annihilate them
- Exodus 23:31 boundaries
- Exodus 23:31 Heb. Nahar, the Euphrates
- Exodus 23:32 treaty
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