Deuteronomy 25
1 When there ariseth a controversy between men, and they come nigh unto judgment, and judgment is granted them, then shall they justify the righteous man, and condemn the lawless.
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 lawless man be, worthy of stripes, then shall the judge cause him to lie down and be beaten before him, according to the measure of his lawlessness, by number:
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 forty stripes, may he give him not going beyond, —lest, if he do go beyond to smite him above these, with many stripes, then should thy brother be of no account 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 an ox when he is treading out the corn.
牛在打場的時候，不可籠住牠的嘴。
5 When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth, having, no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside to a stranger, —her husband’s brother, shall go in unto her, and take her unto him to wife and do for her as a husband’s brother.
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 which she beareth, shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, —so shall his name not be wiped 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 sister-in-law, then shall his sister-in-law go up unto the gate, unto the elders, and say—My husband’s brother hath refused, to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he is not willing to do as a husband’s brother unto me.
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 shall the elders of his city call him and speak unto him, —and he shall stand 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 unto him in the presence of the elders, and draw his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, —and respond and say, Thus shall it be done unto the man who will not build up the house of his brother.
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 who had 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 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 she putteth forth her hand, and seizeth him by his parts of shame,
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 then shalt thou cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity.
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 measures, —a great and a small.
在你家內也不可有兩樣升斗：一大一小。
15 A weight full and just, shalt thou have, a measure full and just, shalt thou have, —that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil which Yahweh thy God is giving unto 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 an abomination unto Yahweh thy God, is every one that doeth these things, —every one that doeth unjustly.
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 that which Amalek did unto thee by 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 encountered thee by the way and cut off in thy rear all the worn-out behind thee, thou thyself, being weary and worn, —how 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 Therefore shall it be when Yahweh thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee for an inheritance to possess it, then shalt thou wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens, —thou shalt not forget.
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!
