Deuteronomy 25
1 If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.
If there is some legal argument between two people, they are to go to court to have the case judged, in order to justify the one who is right and condemn the one who is wrong.
2 And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.
If the person who is guilty is sentenced to be flogged, the judge shall order them to lie down and be flogged before him with the number of lashes the crime deserves.
3 He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.
They are not to receive more than forty lashes. More than that would be to publicly humiliate them.
4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
Don't muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
5 If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.
When two brothers live near to each other and one of them dies without having a son, the widow is not to marry a stranger outside the family. Her husband's brother is to marry her and sleep with her, fulfilling the requirements of a brother-in-law to provide her with children.
6 Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.
The first son she has will be named after the dead brother, so that his name won't be forgotten in Israel.
7 But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.
However, if the man refuses to marry his brother's widow, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and tell them, “My husband's brother is refusing to keep his brother's name alive in Israel. He doesn't want to perform the requirements of a brother-in-law for me.”
8 Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;
The town elders are to summon him and talk with him. If he continues to refuse and says, “I don't want to marry her,”
9 Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.
his brother's widow is to confront him in the presence of the elders, pull off his sandal, spit in his face, and announce, “This is what happens to the man who refuses to keep his brother's family name alive.”
10 And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.
From then on his family name in Israel will be called “The Family of the Pulled-off Sandal.”
11 If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;
If two men are fighting, and one of their wives intervenes to save her husband from being beaten, and she grabs hold of the attacker's genitals,
12 Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.
you are to cut her hand off. Don't show her any mercy.
13 Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
Don't have two different measuring weights in your bag, one that's heavy and one that's light.
14 Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
Don't have two different measuring containers in your house, one that's large and one that's small.
15 But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Make sure you always use accurate and true weights and measures. In that way you will have long lives in the country the Lord your God is giving you.
16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
Anyone who doesn't do so and cheats like this offends the Lord your God.
17 Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;
Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way out of Egypt.
18 How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.
The came out to confront you when you were tired and weary from your journey, and they attacked all those of you who were lagging behind. They didn't have any respect for God.
19 So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.
Once the Lord your God gives you peace after fighting your enemies in the country that he's giving you to take over and own, you are to wipe out even the memory of the Amalekites from the earth. Don't forget!
