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.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they judge them, then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the iniquitous.

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.

And it shall be, if the iniquitous man is deserving to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his iniquity, by number.

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

He may give him forty stripes. He shall not exceed, lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem debased to thee.

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

Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads 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.

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

And it shall be, that the firstborn who she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out of 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.”

And if the man does not 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.

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,”

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. And if he stands, and says, I do not want to take 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.”

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.

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

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

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

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 smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the privates,

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

then thou shall cut off her hand. Thine eye shall have no pity.

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

Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

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

Thou shall not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a 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.

A perfect and just weight thou shall have, a perfect and just measure thou shall have, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God gives thee.

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

For all who do such things, even all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

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

Remember what Amalek did to thee by the way as ye came forth out of 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.

how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all who were feeble behind thee, when thou were faint and weary, and he feared not 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!

Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah thy God has given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Thou shall not forget.