Deuteronomy 25
1 If there be a controversy between men, and they resort to judgment, and they judge [their case]; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
幾時人與人之間發生爭訟，而對簿公庭，定案時，正直的，應聲明他正直；有罪的，應判定他有罪；
2 And it shall be if the wicked man have deserved to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and be beaten before his face, according to the measure of his wickedness with a certain number [of stripes].
如有罪的應受鞭刑，判官應命他伏下，當面按他的罪照數鞭打；
3 With forty [stripes] shall they beat him; they shall not exceed, lest, if they continue to beat him with many stripes above these, thy brother become despicable in thine eyes.
只可打他四十下，不可再多；怕鞭打他超過這數目，你的兄弟在你眼前過於受辱。
4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].
牛在打場的時候，不可籠住牠的嘴。
5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger abroad: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.
如果兄弟住在一起，其中一個沒有留下兒子就死了；死者的妻子不可出嫁外人，丈夫的兄弟應走近她，以她為妻，對她履行兄弟的義務。
6 And it shall be, that the firstborn that she beareth shall stand in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out from Israel.
她所生的長子，應歸亡兄名下，免得他的名由以色列中消滅。
7 But if the man like not to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel: he will not perform for me the duty of a husband's brother.
若是那人不肯娶他兄弟的妻子，他兄弟的妻子應到城門去見長老說：「我丈夫的兄弟不願在以色列中給自己的兄弟留名，不願對我盡兄弟的義務。」
8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him; and if he stand to it and say, I like not to take her;
本城的長老應叫那人來，對他說明；如他仍堅持說：「我不願娶她。」
9 then shall his brother's wife come near to him before the eyes of the elders, and draw his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that will not build up his brother's house.
他兄弟的妻子應當著長老的面，走到他跟前，從他腳上脫下他的鞋，向他臉上吐唾沫說：「那不願給自己兄弟建立家室的人，應這樣對待他。」
10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe drawn off.
從此他的名字，在以色列中，將稱為「脫鞋者的家。」
11 When men fight together one with another, and the wife of the one come near to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and stretch out her hand, and seize him by his secret parts,
若兩人彼此毆打，一人的妻子前來，救她的丈夫脫離那打他者的手，伸手抓住了那人的陰部；
12 thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare.
你應砍去她的手，不應表示憐惜。
13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
在你袋裏不可有兩樣法碼：一大一小；
14 Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs, a great and a small.
在你家內也不可有兩樣升斗：一大一小。
15 A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
你應有準確公正的法碼，應有準確公正的升斗，好使你在上主你的天主賜給你的地上，得享長壽；
16 For every one that doeth such things, every one that doeth unrighteousness, is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
因為凡做這些事的，凡做事不公平的，於上主你的天主都是可憎惡的。
17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt;
你應記得，當你由埃及出來時，阿瑪肋克在路上怎樣對待了你：
18 how he met thee on the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all the feeble that lagged behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary, and he feared not God.
怎樣在路上襲擊了你，乘你困乏無力，攻擊你後方所有疲憊的人，一點也不怕天主。
19 And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; thou shalt not forget it.
所以，當上主你的天主賜你擺脫你四周的一切仇敵，在上主你的天主賜給你作產業的地上，安享太平時，你應由天下抹去阿瑪肋克的名字；不可忘記!
