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 some legal argument between two people, they are to go to court to have the case judged, in order to justify the one who is right and condemn the one who is wrong.
2 Sin autem eum, qui peccavit, dignum viderint plagis: prosternent, et coram se facient verberari. Pro mensura peccati erit et plagarum modus:
If the person who is guilty is sentenced to be flogged, the judge shall order them to lie down and be flogged before him with the number of lashes the crime deserves.
3 ita dumtaxat, ut quadragenarium numerum non excedant: ne foede laceratus ante oculos tuos abeat frater tuus.
They are not to receive more than forty lashes. More than that would be to publicly humiliate them.
4 Non ligabis os bovis terentis in area fruges tuas.
Don't muzzle an ox when 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 two brothers live near to each other and one of them dies without having a son, the widow is not to marry a stranger outside the family. Her husband's brother is to marry her and sleep with her, fulfilling the requirements of a brother-in-law to provide her with children.
6 et primogenitum ex ea filium nomine illius appellabit, ut non deleatur nomen eius ex Israel.
The first son she has will be named after the dead brother, so that his name won't be forgotten 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.
However, if the man refuses to marry his brother's widow, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and tell them, “My husband's brother is refusing to keep his brother's name alive in Israel. He doesn't want to perform the requirements of a brother-in-law for me.”
8 Statimque accersiri eum facient, et interrogabunt. Si responderit: Nolo eam uxorem accipere:
The town elders are to summon him and talk with him. If he continues to refuse and says, “I don't 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 is to confront him in the presence of the elders, pull off his sandal, spit in his face, and announce, “This is what happens to the man who refuses to keep his brother's family name alive.”
10 Et vocabitur nomen illius in Israel, Domus discalceati.
From then on his family name in Israel will be called “The Family of the Pulled-off Sandal.”
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 one of their wives intervenes to save her husband from being beaten, and she grabs hold of the attacker's genitals,
12 abscindes manum illius, nec flecteris super eam ulla misericordia.
you are to cut her hand off. Don't show her any mercy.
13 Non habebis in sacculo diversa pondera, maius et minus:
Don't have two different measuring weights in your bag, one that's heavy and one that's light.
14 nec erit in domo tua modius maior et minor.
Don't have two different measuring containers in your house, one that's large and one that's 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.
Make sure you always use accurate and true weights and measures. In that way you will have long lives in the country the Lord your God is giving you.
16 abominatur enim Dominus tuus eum, qui facit haec, et aversatur omnem iniustitiam.
Anyone who doesn't do so and cheats like this offends the Lord your God.
17 Memento quae fecerit tibi Amalec in via quando egrediebaris ex Aegypto:
Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way 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.
The came out to confront you when you were tired and weary from your journey, and they attacked all those of you who were lagging behind. They didn't have any respect for 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.
Once the Lord your God gives you peace after fighting your enemies in the country that he's giving you to take over and own, you are to wipe out even the memory of the Amalekites from the earth. Don't forget!
