Deuteronomy 25
1 “If there is a case between persons, and they apply to the judges, they shall give the palm of justice to the one whom they perceive to be just, and they shall condemn of impiety the one who is impious.
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.
2 But if they see that the one who has sinned is worthy of stripes, they shall prostrate him and cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin, so shall the measure of the stripes be.
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.
3 Even so, these shall not exceed the number of forty. Otherwise, your brother may depart, having been wounded shamefully before your eyes.
He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.
4 You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out your crops in the field.
Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
5 When brothers are living together, and one of them dies without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry another. Instead, his brother shall take her, and he shall raise up offspring for his brother.
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.
6 And the first son from her, he shall call by his brother’s name, so that his name will not be abolished from Israel.
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.
7 But if he is not willing to take his brother’s wife, who by law must go to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and she shall call upon those greater by birth, and she shall say: ‘The brother of my husband is not willing to raise up his brother’s name in Israel; nor will he join with me.’
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.
8 And immediately, they shall summon him to be sent, and they shall question him. If he responds, ‘I am not willing to accept her as a wife,’
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;
9 then the woman shall approach him in the sight of the elders, and she shall remove his shoe from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall say: ‘So shall it be done to the man who was not willing to build up his brother’s house.’
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.
10 And his name shall be called in Israel: The House of the Unshod.
And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.
11 If two men have a conflict between themselves, and one begins to do violence to the other, and if the other’s wife, wanting to rescue her husband from the hand of the stronger one, extends her hand and grasps him by his private parts,
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;
12 then you shall cut off her hand. Neither shall you weep over her with any mercy.
Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.
13 You shall not have differing weights, greater and lesser, in your bag.
Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
14 Neither shall there be in your house a greater and a lesser measure.
Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
15 You shall have a just and a true weight, and your measure shall be equal and true, so that you may live for a long time upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
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.
16 For the Lord your God abominates him who does these things, and he loathes all injustice.
For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
17 Remember what Amalek did to you, along the way, when you were departing from Egypt:
Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;
18 how he met you and cut down the stragglers of the troops, who were sitting down, exhausted, when you were consumed by hunger and hardship, and how he did not fear God.
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.
19 Therefore, when the Lord your God will give you rest, and you will have subdued all the surrounding nations, in the land which he has promised to you, you shall delete his name from under heaven. Take care not to forget this.”
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.
