Deuteronomii 25
1 Si fuerit causa inter aliquos, et interpellaverint iudices: quem iustum esse perspexerint, illi iustitiæ palmam dabunt: quem impium, condemnabunt impietatis.
If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
2 Sin autem eum, qui peccavit, dignum viderint plagis: prosternent, et coram se facient verberari. Pro mensura peccati erit et plagarum modus:
It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
3 ita dumtaxat, ut quadragenarium numerum non excedant: ne fœde laceratus ante oculos tuos abeat frater tuus.
He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.
4 Non ligabis os bovis terentis in area fruges tuas.
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
5 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:
If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
6 et primogenitum ex ea filium nomine illius appellabit, ut non deleatur nomen eius ex Israel.
It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
7 Sin autem noluerit accipere uxorem fratris sui, quæ ei lege debetur, perget mulier ad portam civitatis, et interpellabit maiores natu, dicetque: Non vult frater viri mei suscitare nomen fratris sui in Israel: nec me in coniugem sumere.
If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
8 Statimque accersiri eum facient, et interrogabunt. Si responderit: Nolo eam uxorem accipere:
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
9 accedet mulier ad eum coram senioribus, et tollet calceamentum de pede eius, spuetque in faciem illius, et dicet: Sic fiet homini, qui non ædificat domum fratris sui.
then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”
10 Et vocabitur nomen illius in Israel, Domus discalceati.
His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.”
11 Si habuerint inter se iurgium viri duo, et unus contra alterum rixari cœperit, volensque uxor alterius eruere virum suum de manu fortioris, miseritque manum, et apprehenderit verenda eius:
When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts,
12 abscides manum illius, nec flecteris super eam ulla misericordia.
then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
13 Non habebis in sacculo diversa pondera, maius et minus:
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
14 nec erit in domo tua modius maior et minor.
You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.
15 Pondus habebis iustum et verum, et modius æqualis et verus erit tibi: ut multo vivas tempore super Terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi.
You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
16 Abominatur enim Dominus tuus eum, qui facit hæc, et aversatur omnem iniustitiam.
For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
17 Memento quæ fecerit tibi Amalec in via quando egrediebaris ex Ægypto:
Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt,
18 quomodo occurrerit tibi: et extremos agminis tui, qui lassi residebant, ceciderit, quando tu eras fame et labore confectus, et non timuerit Deum.
how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.
19 Cum ergo Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi requiem, et subiecerit cunctas per circuitum nationes in Terra, quam tibi pollicitus est: delebis nomen eius sub cælo. Cave ne obliviscaris.
Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.
