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 an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.
2 Sin autem eum, qui peccavit, dignum viderint plagis: prosternent, et coram se facient verberari. Pro mensura peccati erit et plagarum modus:
And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.
3 ita dumtaxat, ut quadragenarium numerum non excedant: ne foede laceratus ante oculos tuos abeat frater tuus.
He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.
4 Non ligabis os bovis terentis in area fruges tuas.
Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
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 are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.
6 et primogenitum ex ea filium nomine illius appellabit, ut non deleatur nomen eius ex Israel.
Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in 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 says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.
8 Statimque accersiri eum facient, et interrogabunt. Si responderit: Nolo eam uxorem accipere:
Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not 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 aedificat domum fratris sui.
Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.
10 Et vocabitur nomen illius in Israel, Domus discalceati.
And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.
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 of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;
12 abscindes manum illius, nec flecteris super eam ulla misericordia.
Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.
13 Non habebis in sacculo diversa pondera, maius et minus:
Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
14 nec erit in domo tua modius maior et minor.
Or in your house different measures, a great and a 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.
But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
16 abominatur enim Dominus tuus eum, qui facit haec, et aversatur omnem iniustitiam.
For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
17 Memento quae fecerit tibi Amalec in via quando egrediebaris ex Aegypto:
Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on 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, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.
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.
So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.
