Deuteronomy 25

1 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.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them, by justifying the righteous, and condemning the wicked,

2 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.

then it shall be, if the wicked man deserve to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to the measure of his wickedness, by number.

3 They are not to receive more than forty lashes. More than that would be to publicly humiliate them.

Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should be dishonoured before thine eyes.

4 Don't muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

5 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.

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not be married abroad unto one not of his kin; her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

6 The first son she has will be named after the dead brother, so that his name won't be forgotten in Israel.

And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.

7 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.”

And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then 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 the duty of a husband's brother unto me.'

8 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,”

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him; and if he stand, and say: 'I like not to take her';

9 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.”

then shall his brother's wife draw nigh unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say: 'So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.'

10 From then on his family name in Israel will be called “The Family of the Pulled-off Sandal.”

And his name shall be called in Israel The house of him that had his shoe loosed.

11 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,

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 putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

12 you are to cut her hand off. Don't show her any mercy.

then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

13 Don't have two different measuring weights in your bag, one that's heavy and one that's light.

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

14 Don't have two different measuring containers in your house, one that's large and one that's small.

Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.

15 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.

A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

16 Anyone who doesn't do so and cheats like this offends the Lord your God.

For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way out of Egypt.

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt;

18 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.

how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

19 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!

Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.