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.

“When there is a strife between men, and they have come near to the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrongdoer,

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.

then it has come to pass, if the wrongdoer is to be struck, that the judge has caused him to fall down, and [one] has struck him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrongdoing, by number;

3 He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

he strikes him forty [times]; he is not adding, lest he is adding to strike him above these many stripes, and your brother be lightly esteemed in your eyes.

4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

You do not muzzle an ox in its threshing.

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 brothers dwell together, and one of them has died and has no son, the wife of the dead is not given to a strange man; her husband’s brother goes in to her, and has taken her to him for a wife, and performs the duty of her husband’s brother;

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.

and it has been, the firstborn which she bears rises for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of 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.

And if the man does not delight to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife has gone up to the gate, to the elderly, and said, My husband’s brother is refusing to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he has not been willing to perform the duty of my husband’s brother;

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;

and [the] elderly of his city have called for him, and spoken to him, and he has stood and said, I have no desire to take 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.

Then his brother’s wife has drawn near to him before the eyes of the elderly, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who does not build up the house of his brother;

10 And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.

and his name has been called in Israel, The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.

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;

When men strive together with one another, and the wife of one has drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his striker, and has put forth her hand, and laid hold on his private parts,

12 Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

then you have cut off her hand; your eye does not spare.

13 Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

You do not have [both] a great stone and a small stone in your bag.

14 Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.

You do not have a great ephah and a small ephah in your house.

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.

You have a complete and just stone, [and] you have a complete and just ephah, so that they prolong your days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you;

16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

for anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.

17 Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;

Remember that which Amalek has done to you in the way in your going out from 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.

that he has met you in the way, and strikes among you all those feeble behind you (when you [were] weary and fatigued), and is not fearing 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.

And it has been, in your God YHWH giving rest to you from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance to possess it, you blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens—you do not forget.”