Deuteronomy 25
1 And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and [the judges] judge, and 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 then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, you shall lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.
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 And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if you should scourge him [with] more stripes beyond these stripes, your brother will be disgraced before you.
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 You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.
牛在打場的時候，不可籠住牠的嘴。
5 And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out [of the family] to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with 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 come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of 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 And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband's brother has refused.
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 And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not 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 his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Israel.
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 has had his shoe loosed.
從此他的名字，在以色列中，將稱為「脫鞋者的家。」
11 And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her hand, and take hold of his private 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 you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not spare her.
你應砍去她的手，不應表示憐惜。
13 You shall not have in your bag various weights, a great and a small.
在你袋裏不可有兩樣法碼：一大一小；
14 You shall not have in your house various measures, a great and a small.
在你家內也不可有兩樣升斗：一大一小。
15 You shall have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that you may live long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.
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 does this [is] an abomination to the Lord your God, even every one that does injustice.
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 things Amalec did to you by the way, when you went forth out of the land 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 withstood you in the way, and harassed your rear, [even] those that were weary behind you, and you did hunger and was weary; and he did not fear 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 come to pass whenever the Lord your God shall have given you rest from all your enemies round about you, in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, you shall blot out the name of Amalec from under heaven, and shall not forget [to do 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!
