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.

When there ariseth a controversy between men, and they come nigh unto judgment, and judgment is granted them, then shall they justify the righteous man, and condemn the lawless.

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 lawless man be, worthy of stripes, then shall the judge cause him to lie down and be beaten before him, according to the measure of his lawlessness, 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.

forty stripes, may he give him not going beyond, —lest, if he do go beyond to smite him above these, with many stripes, then should thy brother be of no account in thine eyes.

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

Thou shalt not muzzle an ox when he is treading 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.

When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth, having, no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger, —her husband’s brother, shall go in unto her, and take her unto him to wife and do for her as a husband’s brother.

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 beareth, shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, —so shall his name not be wiped 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.”

But, if the man like not to take his sister-in-law, then shall his sister-in-law go up unto the gate, unto the elders, and say—My husband’s brother hath refused, to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he is not willing to do as a husband’s brother unto 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 shall the elders of his city call him and speak unto him, —and he shall stand 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 near unto him in the presence of the elders, and draw his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, —and respond and say, Thus shall it be done unto the man who will not build up the house of his brother.

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 had his shoe drawn off.

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 draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, —and she putteth forth her hand, and seizeth him by his parts of shame,

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

then shalt thou cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity.

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

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

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

Thou shalt not have in thy 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.

A weight full and just, shalt thou have, a measure full and just, shalt thou have, —that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee.

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

For an abomination unto Yahweh thy God, is every one that doeth these things, —every one that doeth unjustly.

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

Remember that which Amalek did unto thee by the way when 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 encountered thee by the way and cut off in thy rear all the worn-out behind thee, thou thyself, being weary and worn, —how 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 shall it be when Yahweh thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee for an inheritance to possess it, then shalt thou wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens, —thou shalt not forget.