Deuteronomy 25

1 If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.

2 If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

3 He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

5 When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

6 The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”

8 Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”

9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”

10 And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”

11 If two men are fighting, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

12 you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

13 You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

14 You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.

15 You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

16 For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,

18 how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

19 When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

1 ¶ If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

2 And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

3 Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest, [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].

5 ¶ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

6 And it shall be, [that] the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother [which is] dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and [if] he stand [to it], and say, I like not to take her;

9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.

10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity [her].

13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

15 [But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

16 For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, [even] all [that were] feeble behind thee, when thou [wast] faint and weary; and he feared not God.

19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance to possess it, [that] thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget [it].

1 If there be strife between men, let them be brought into court, and let them be judged, and let the righteous be judged, and the wicked condemned.

2 And if the wicked have deserved to be beaten, the judge shall call him down, and shall smite him before him according to the measure and number of his iniquity.

3 When forty blows have been given him, he shall not be beaten any more; lest, when more blows are given, he be beaten too much, and thy brother be abominable in thy sight,

4 Thou shalt not bind up the mouth of the ox that threshes.

5 If brethren dwell together, and one die without children, then the wife of the deceased shall not take a strange man out of the house, but her brother in law shall put her to sleep, and take her to be married, and marry her.

6 And the firstborn of her shall be called by the name of his brother that died, that his name be not cut off from Israel.

7 And if it please not the man to take his sister in law, then she his sister in law shall go up under the gate before the elders, and say, My brother in law refuseth to raise up a name unto his brother in Israel, and will not marry me.

8 Then the elders of the city shall call for him, and speak unto him. And when he standeth, and saith, I am not pleased to take them,

9 And his sister in law shall come unto him before the elders, and take off his shoe from off his feet, and spit upon him: and she shall answer and say: So shall it be done unto every man that will not build up his brother's house.

10 And his name shall be called in Israel the house of the barefooter.

11 When two men quarrel together, and one man's wife runeth to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and seizeth him by his shame,

12 Then shalt thou cut off her hand, and thine eye shall not spare her.

13 Thou shalt not have two weights in thy sack, great and small;

14 And there shall not be in thine house two bushels, large and small.

15 Thou shalt have a full and right weight, and a full and right bushel, that thy life may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

16 For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God, as are all they that do evil.

17 Remember what the Amalekites did unto thee in the way that ye came out of Egypt:

18 How they attacked thee in the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all the weak that followed thee in the rear, when thou wast weary and faint, and feared not God,

19 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, that thou shalt cut off the remembrance of the Amalekites from under heaven. Remember this!