Deuteronomy 25

1 for to be strife between human and to approach: approach to(wards) [the] justice: judgement and to judge them and to justify [obj] [the] righteous and be wicked [obj] [the] wicked

“If [two] Israelis have a dispute and they go to a court, the judge will [probably] decide/declare that one of them (is innocent/did not do any wrong) and the other one is guilty.

2 and to be if son: descendant/people to smite [the] wicked and to fall: fall him [the] to judge and to smite him to/for face his like/as sufficiency wickedness his in/on/with number

If the judge says that the guilty person must be punished, he shall command him to lie [with his face] on the ground and be whipped. The number of times he is struck with a whip will depend on [what kind of] crime he committed.

3 forty to smite him not to add: again lest to add: again to/for to smite him upon these wound many and to dishonor brother: compatriot your to/for eye: seeing your

It is permitted that he be struck as many as 40 times, but no more than that. If he is struck more than 40 times, he would be humiliated publicly.

4 not to muzzle cattle in/on/with to tread he

When your ox is treading/walking on the grain [to separate the chaff from the grain], do not (muzzle it/put a covering on its mouth) [to prevent it from eating some of the grain].

5 for to dwell brother: male-sibling together and to die one from them and son: child nothing to/for him not to be woman: wife [the] to die [the] outside [to] to/for man be a stranger brother-in-law her to come (in): come upon her and to take: marry her to/for him to/for woman: wife and be brother-in-law her

If two brothers live on the same property, and one of them who has no son dies, the man’s widow should not marry someone who is not a member of his family. The dead man’s brother must marry her and have sex [EUP] with her. It is his duty to do that.

6 and to be [the] firstborn which to beget to arise: establish upon name brother: male-sibling his [the] to die and not to wipe name his from Israel

If she later gives birth to a son, that son is to be considered [MTY] the son of the man who died, in order that the dead man’s name will not disappear from Israel.

7 and if not to delight in [the] man to/for to take: marry [obj] sister-in-law his and to ascend: rise sister-in-law his [the] gate [to] to(wards) [the] old: elder and to say to refuse brother-in-law my to/for to arise: establish to/for brother: male-sibling his name in/on/with Israel not be willing be brother-in-law me

“But if the dead man’s brother does not want to marry that woman, she must stand at the (gate/central meeting place) of the town and say to the [town] elders, ‘My husband’s brother will not do (his duty/what he is supposed to do). He refuses to [marry me in order that I may give birth to a son who will] prevent my dead husband’s name from disappearing in Israel.’

8 and to call: call to to/for him old: elder city his and to speak: speak to(wards) him and to stand: stand and to say not to delight in to/for to take: marry her

Then the elders must summon that man and talk to him. If he still refuses to marry that widow,

9 and to approach: approach sister-in-law his to(wards) him to/for eye: before(the eyes) [the] old: elder and to rescue sandal his from upon foot his and to spit in/on/with face his and to answer and to say thus to make: do to/for man which not to build [obj] house: household (brother: male-sibling his *L(abh)*)

she must go up to him while the elders are watching, and take off one of his sandals [to symbolize/show that he would not receive any of her property], and spit in his face, and say to him, ‘This is what happens to the man who refuses to do what is needed [to allow his dead brother to have a son] in order that our family name does not disappear.’

10 and to call: call by name his in/on/with Israel house: household to rescue [the] sandal

After that happens, that man’s family will be known as ‘the family of the man whose sandal was pulled off’.

11 for to struggle human together man: anyone and brother: compatriot his and to present: come woman: wife [the] one to/for to rescue [obj] (man: husband her *LAB(h)*) from hand to smite him and to send: reach hand her and to strengthen: hold in/on/with genitalia his

When [two] men are fighting with each other, and the one man’s wife comes near to help her husband by grabbing hold of the other man’s genitals,

12 and to cut [obj] palm her not to pity eye your

do not act mercifully toward her; cut off her hand.

13 not to be to/for you in/on/with purse your stone: weight and stone: weight great: large and small

“[When you are buying or selling things], do not try to cheat people by having two kinds of weights, [one which you use when you buy something and one which you use when you sell something], and two kinds of measuring baskets, [one which you use when you buy something and one which you use when you sell something].

14 not to be to/for you in/on/with house: home your ephah and ephah great: large and small

15 stone: weight complete and righteousness to be to/for you ephah complete and righteousness to be to/for you because to prolong day your upon [the] land: soil which LORD God your to give: give to/for you

Always use correct weights and correct measuring baskets, in order that Yahweh our God will allow you to live a long time in the land that he is giving to you.

16 for abomination LORD God your all to make: do these all to make: do injustice

Yahweh hates all those who act dishonestly, [and he will punish them].

17 to remember [obj] which to make: do to/for you Amalek in/on/with way: journey in/on/with to come out: come you from Egypt

Continue to remember what the Amalek people-group did to your ancestors when they were coming out of Egypt.

18 which to meet you in/on/with way: journey and to cut off the tail in/on/with you all [the] be feeble after you and you(m. s.) faint and weary and not to fear God

They attacked your ancestors as your ancestors were traveling, when they were weak and exhausted. Those people were not afraid of God at all, so they attacked your ancestors from the rear and killed all those who were unable to walk as fast as the others.

19 and to be in/on/with to rest LORD God your to/for you from all enemy your from around in/on/with land: country/planet which LORD God your to give: give to/for you inheritance to/for to possess: take her to wipe [obj] memorial Amalek from underneath: under [the] heaven not to forget

Therefore, when Yahweh our God has given you the land [that he promised to give you], and when he has enabled you to rest from [fighting] all your enemies around you, kill all the Amalek people-group, with the result that no one will remember them any more. Do not forget [to do this]!”