Deuteronomii 25
1 Si fuerit causa inter aliquos, et interpellaverint iudices: quem iustum esse perspexerint, illi iustitiae palmam dabunt: quem impium, condemnabunt impietatis.
When there shall be strife betweene men, and they shall come vnto iudgement, and sentence shall be giuen vpon them, and the righteous shall be iustified, and the wicked condemned,
2 Sin autem eum, qui peccavit, dignum viderint plagis: prosternent, et coram se facient verberari. Pro mensura peccati erit et plagarum modus:
Then if so be the wicked be worthy to bee beaten, the iudge shall cause him to lie downe, and to be beaten before his face, according to his trespasse, vnto a certaine nomber.
3 ita dumtaxat, ut quadragenarium numerum non excedant: ne foede laceratus ante oculos tuos abeat frater tuus.
Fortie stripes shall he cause him to haue and not past, lest if he should exceede and beate him aboue that with many stripes, thy brother should appeare despised in thy sight.
4 Non ligabis os bovis terentis in area fruges tuas.
Thou shalt not mousell the oxe that treadeth out the corne.
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 brethren dwell together, and one of them dye and haue no sonne, the wife of the dead shall not marry without: that is, vnto a stranger, but his kinseman shall goe in vnto her, and take her to wife, and doe the kinsemans office to her.
6 et primogenitum ex ea filium nomine illius appellabit, ut non deleatur nomen eius ex Israel.
And the first borne which she beareth, shall succeede in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of 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.
And if the man will not take his kinsewoman, then let his kinsewoman goe vp to the gate vnto the Elders, and say, My kinsman refuseth to rayse vp vnto his brother a name in Israel: hee will not doe the office of a kinsman vnto me.
8 Statimque accersiri eum facient, et interrogabunt. Si responderit: Nolo eam uxorem accipere:
Then the Elders of his citie shall call him, and commune with him: if he stand and say, I wil 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 shall his kinswoman come vnto him in the presence of the Elders, and loose his shooe from his foote, and spit in his face, and answere, and say, So shall it be done vnto that man, that will not buylde vp his brothers house.
10 Et vocabitur nomen illius in Israel, Domus discalceati.
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him whose shooe is put 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:
When men striue together, one with another, if the wife of the one come neere, for to ridde her husband out of the handes of him that smiteth him, and put foorth her hand, and take him by his priuities,
12 abscindes manum illius, nec flecteris super eam ulla misericordia.
Then thou shalt cut off her hande: thine eye shall not spare her.
13 Non habebis in sacculo diversa pondera, maius et minus:
Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge two maner of weightes, a great and a small,
14 nec erit in domo tua modius maior et minor.
Neither shalt thou haue in thine house diuers 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 thou shalt haue a right and iust weight: a perfite and a iust measure shalt thou haue, that thy dayes may be lengthened in the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee.
16 abominatur enim Dominus tuus eum, qui facit haec, et aversatur omnem iniustitiam.
For all that doe such things, and all that doe vnrighteously, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.
17 Memento quae fecerit tibi Amalec in via quando egrediebaris ex Aegypto:
Remember what Amalek did vnto thee by the way, when ye were come 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 thee by ye way, and smote ye hindmost of you, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast fainted and weary, and he feared not 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.
Therefore, when the Lord thy God hath giuen thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee for an inheritance to possesse it, then thou shalt put out the remembrance of Amalek from vnder heauen: forget not.
