Deuteronomy 25
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v1
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.
v2
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.
v3
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.
v4
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
v5
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 husbandโs brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husbandโs brother to her.
v6
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.
v7
If the man doesnโt want to take his brotherโs wife, then his brotherโs wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, โMy husbandโs brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husbandโs brother to me.โ
v8
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, โI donโt want to take her,โ
v9
then his brotherโs 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, โSo shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brotherโs house.โ
v10
His name shall be called in Israel, โThe house of him who had his sandal removed.โ
v11
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,
v12
then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
v13
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
v14
You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.
v15
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.
v16
For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
v17
Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt;
v18
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 didnโt fear God.
v19
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.