تَثنِيَة 25

١ 1 إِذَا نَشَبَتْ خُصُومَةٌ بَيْنَ قَوْمٍ وَرَفَعُوا دَعْوَاهُمْ إِلَى الْقَضَاءِ لِيَحْكُمَ الْقُضَاةُ بَيْنَهُمْ، فَلْيُبَرِّئُوا الْبَرِيءَ وَيَحْكُمُوا عَلَى الْمُذْنِبِ.

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

٢ 2 فَإِنْ كَانَ الْمُذْنِبُ يَسْتَحِقُّ عِقَابَ الْجَلْدِ، يَطْرَحُهُ الْقَاضِي، وَيَجْلِدُونَهُ أَمَامَهُ بِعَدَدِ الْجَلْدَاتِ الَّتِي يَسْتَحِقُّهَا ذَنْبُهُ،

and it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge shall make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes, according to his guilt.

٣ 3 عَلَى أَلّا يَزِيدَ عَدَدُ الْجَلْدَاتِ عَنْ أَرْبَعِينَ جَلْدَةً، لِئَلّا يُصْبِحَ الْمُعَاقَبُ مُحْتَقَراً.

He may give him forty stripes and no more. Otherwise, if he should go on and beat him with more stripes than these, your brother will be humiliated in your eyes.

٤ 4 لَا تَكُمُّوا فَمَ الثَّوْرِ الدَّارِسِ لِلْغِلالِ.

You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

٥ 5 إِذَا سَكَنَ إِخْوَةٌ مَعاً وَمَاتَ أَحَدُهُمْ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يُنْجِبَ ابْناً، فَلا يَجِبُ أَنْ تَتَزَوَّجَ امْرَأَتُهُ رَجُلاً مِنْ غَيْرِ أَفْرَادِ عَائِلَةِ زَوْجِهَا. بَلْ لِيَتَزَوَّجْهَا أَخُو زَوْجِهَا وَيُعَاشِرْهَا، وَلْيَقُمْ نَحْوَهَا بِوَاجِبِ أَخِي الزَّوْجِ،

If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

٦ 6 وَيَحْمِلُ الْبِكْرُ الَّذِي تُنْجِبُهُ اسْمَ الأَخِ الْمَيْتِ، فَلا يَنْقَرِضُ اسْمُهُ مِنْ أَرْضِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

٧ 7 وَإِنْ أَبَى الرَّجُلُ أَنْ يَتَزَوَّجَ امْرَأَةَ أَخِيهِ، تَمْضِي الْمَرْأَةُ إِلَى بَوَّابَةِ شُيُوخِ الْمَدِينَةِ وَتَقُولُ: قَدْ رَفَضَ أَخُو زَوْجِي أَنْ يُخَلِّدَ اسْماً لأَخِيهِ فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَلَمْ يَشَأْ أَنْ يَقُومَ نَحْوِي بِوَاجِبِ أَخِي الزَّوْجِ.

If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me."

٨ 8 فَيَدْعُوهُ شُيُوخُ الْمَدِينَةِ وَيَتَدَاوَلُونَ مَعَهُ فِي الأَمْرِ. فَإِنْ أَصَرَّ عَلَى الرَّفْضِ وَقَالَ: لَا أَرْضَى أَنْ أَتَزَوَّجَهَا.

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I do not want to take her";

٩ 9 تَتَقَدَّمُ امْرَأَةُ أَخِيهِ إِلَيْهِ عَلَى مَرْأَى مِنَ الشُّيُوخِ، وَتَخْلَعُ حِذَاءَهُ مِنْ رِجْلَيْهِ وَتَتْفُلُ فِي وَجْهِهِ قَائِلَةً: هَذَا مَا يَحْدُثُ لِمَنْ يَأْبَى أَنْ يَبْنِيَ بَيْتَ أَخِيهِ.

then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house."

١٠ 10 فَيُدْعَى فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ بَيْتَ مَخْلُوعِ النَّعْلِ.

His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.

١١ 11 إِذَا تَعَارَكَ رَجُلانِ فَتَدَخَّلَتْ زَوْجَةُ أَحَدِهِمَا لِتُنْقِذَ زَوْجَهَا مِنْ قَبْضَةِ يَدِ ضَارِبِهِ وَمَدَّتْ يَدَهَا وَأَمْسَكَتْ بِخِصْيَتِهِ،

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the private parts;

١٢ 12 فَاقْطَعُوا يَدَهَا وَلا تُشْفِقُوا عَلَيْهَا.

then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

١٣ 13 لَا تَحْتَفِظْ فِي كِيسِكَ بِمِعْيَارَيْنِ مُخْتَلِفَيْنِ كَبِيرٍ وَصَغِيرٍ،

You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

١٤ 14 وَلا يَكُنْ لَكَ فِي بَيْتِكَ مِكْيَالانِ مُخْتَلِفَانِ كَبِيرٌ وَصَغِيرٌ،

You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.

١٥ 15 بَلْ لِتَكُنْ أَوْزَانُكَ وَمَكَايِيلُكَ صَحِيحَةً لَا غِشَّ فِيهَا، لِتَطُولَ أَيَّامُكَ عَلَى الأَرْضِ الَّتِي يَهَبُهَا لَكَ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكَ،

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

١٦ 16 لأَنَّ كُلَّ مَنْ غَشَّ فِي الْمَكَايِيلِ أَوِ الأَوْزَانِ يُصْبِحُ مَكْرُوهاً لَدَى الرَّبِّ إِلَهِكُمْ.

For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

١٧ 17 تَذَكَّرُوا مَا صَنَعَهُ بِكُمْ شَعْبُ عَمَالِيقَ لَدَى خُرُوجِكُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ،

Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;

١٨ 18 كَيْفَ تَعَرَّضُوا لَكُمْ فِي الطَّرِيقِ وَقَضَوْا عَلَى الْمُسْتَضْعِفِينَ الْمُرْتَحِلِينَ فِي مُؤَخَّرَةِ الشَّعْبِ وَأَنْتُمْ مُرْهَقُونَ تَعَابَى، وَلَمْ يَخَافُوا اللهَ.

how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who lagged behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

١٩ 19 فَمَتَى أَرَاحَكُمُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُكُمْ مِنْ جَمِيعِ أَعْدَائِكُمُ الْمُحِيطِينَ بِكُمْ فِي الأَرْضِ الَّتِي يَهَبُهَا لَكُمْ مِيرَاثاً، امْحُوا ذِكْرَ شَعْبِ عَمَالِيقَ مِنْ تَحْتِ السَّمَاءِ. لَا تَنْسَوْا هَذَا.

Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.