Deuteronomii 25
1 Si fuerit causa inter aliquos, et interpellaverint iudices: quem iustum esse perspexerint, illi iustitiae palmam dabunt: quem impium, condemnabunt impietatis.
If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.
2 Sin autem eum, qui peccavit, dignum viderint plagis: prosternent, et coram se facient verberari. Pro mensura peccati erit et plagarum modus:
If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.
3 ita dumtaxat, ut quadragenarium numerum non excedant: ne foede laceratus ante oculos tuos abeat frater tuus.
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
4 Non ligabis os bovis terentis in area fruges tuas.
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading 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:
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
6 et primogenitum ex ea filium nomine illius appellabit, ut non deleatur nomen eius ex Israel.
The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
7 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.
But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
8 Statimque accersiri eum facient, et interrogabunt. Si responderit: Nolo eam uxorem accipere:
Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry 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 aedificat domum fratris sui.
his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
10 Et vocabitur nomen illius in Israel, Domus discalceati.
And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
11 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:
If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
12 abscindes manum illius, nec flecteris super eam ulla misericordia.
you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
13 Non habebis in sacculo diversa pondera, maius et minus:
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
14 nec erit in domo tua modius maior et minor.
You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
15 pondus habebis iustum et verum, et modius aequalis et verus erit tibi: ut multo vivas tempore super Terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi.
You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
16 abominatur enim Dominus tuus eum, qui facit haec, et aversatur omnem iniustitiam.
For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
17 Memento quae fecerit tibi Amalec in via quando egrediebaris ex Aegypto:
Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from 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 they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of 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 caelo. Cave ne obliviscaris.
When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
