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, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

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

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.

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

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

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 die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an 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 which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put 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 like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife 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 my husband’s brother.

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 stand to it, and say, I like not 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 shall his brother’s wife come to 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 to that man that will 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 that 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 for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets:

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

Then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity her.

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

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

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

You shall not have in your house divers 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.

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

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

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

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

Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you were come 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 you by the way, and smote the hindmost of you, even all that were feeble behind you, when you 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 the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it.