Deut 25
1
If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges]
judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
2
and it shall be, if the wicked man be 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.
3
Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and
beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
4
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].
5
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the
dead shall not be married without to a stranger: her husband`s brother shall go in
to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband`s brother to
her.
6
And it shall be, that the first-born that she bears shall succeed in the name of his
brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.
7
And if the man like not to take his brother`s wife, then his brother`s wife shall
go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband`s brother refuses to raise up
to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband`s brother
to me.
8
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and
say, I like not to take her;
9
then shall his brother`s wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose
his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So
shall it be done to the man that does not build up his brother`s house.
10
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him whom has his shoe loosed.
11
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver
her husband out of the hand of him whom smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes
him by the secrets;
12
then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
13
You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
14
You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.
15
A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just measure shall you have:
that your days may be long in the land which YHWH your God gives you.
16
For all that do such things, [even] all that do unrighteously, are an abomination
to YHWH your God.
17
Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;
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how he met you by the way, and smote the hindmost of you, all that were feeble behind
you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God.
19
Therefore it shall be, when YHWH your God has given you rest from all your enemies
round about, in the land which YHWH your God gives you for an inheritance to possess
it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall
not forget.