Deuteronomy 25
1 “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,
Si fuerit causa inter aliquos, et interpellaverint iudices: quem iustum esse perspexerint, illi iustitiae palmam dabunt: quem impium, condemnabunt impietatis.
2 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;
Sin autem eum, qui peccavit, dignum viderint plagis: prosternent, et coram se facient verberari. Pro mensura peccati erit et plagarum modus:
3 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.
ita dumtaxat, ut quadragenarium numerum non excedant: ne foede laceratus ante oculos tuos abeat frater tuus.
4 You do not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
Non ligabis os bovis terentis in area fruges tuas.
5 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;
Quando habitaverint fratres simul, et unus ex eis absque liberis mortuus fuerit, uxor defuncti non nubet alteri: sed accipiet eam frater eius, et suscitabit semen fratris sui:
6 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.
et primogenitum ex ea filium nomine illius appellabit, ut non deleatur nomen eius ex Israel.
7 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;
Sin autem noluerit accipere uxorem fratris sui, quae ei lege debetur, perget mulier ad portam civitatis, et interpellabit maiores natu, dicetque: Non vult frater viri mei suscitare semen fratris sui in Israel: nec me in coniugium sumere.
8 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.
Statimque accersiri eum facient, et interrogabunt. Si responderit: Nolo eam uxorem accipere:
9 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;
accedet mulier ad eum coram senioribus, et tollet calceamentum de pede eius, spuetque in faciem illius, et dicet: Sic fiet homini, qui non aedificat domum fratris sui.
10 and his name has been called in Israel, The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.
Et vocabitur nomen illius in Israel, Domus discalceati.
11 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,
Si habuerint inter se iurgium viri duo, et unus contra alterum rixari coeperit, volensque uxor alterius eruere virum suum de manu fortioris, miseritque manum, et apprehenderit verenda eius:
12 then you have cut off her hand; your eye does not spare.
abscindes manum illius, nec flecteris super eam ulla misericordia.
13 You do not have [both] a great stone and a small stone in your bag.
Non habebis in sacculo diversa pondera, maius et minus:
14 You do not have a great ephah and a small ephah in your house.
nec erit in domo tua modius maior et minor.
15 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;
pondus habebis iustum et verum, et modius aequalis et verus erit tibi: ut multo vivas tempore super Terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi.
16 for anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.
abominatur enim Dominus tuus eum, qui facit haec, et aversatur omnem iniustitiam.
17 Remember that which Amalek has done to you in the way in your going out from Egypt,
Memento quae fecerit tibi Amalec in via quando egrediebaris ex Aegypto:
18 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.
quomodo occurrerit tibi: et extremos agminis tui, qui lassi residebant, ceciderit, quando tu eras fame et labore confectus, et non timuerit Deum.
19 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.”
Cum ergo Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi requiem, et subiecerit cunctas per circuitum nationes in Terra, quam tibi pollicitus est: delebis nomen eius sub caelo. Cave ne obliviscaris.
