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1 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.
2 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.
3 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.
4 You
shall not muzzle
the ox when
he treads out
the grain.
5 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 husband’s
brother shall go
in to her,
and take her
as his wife, and
perform the duty
of a husband’s
brother to her.
6 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.
7 If the
man doesn’t want
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. If
he stands and
says, “I don’t
want to take
her,”
9 then
his brother’s 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, “So shall
it be done
to the man
who does not
build up
his brother’s house.”
10 His
name shall be
called in Israel,
“The house of
him who had
his sandal
removed.”
11 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,
12 then
you shall cut
off her hand.
Your eye shall
have no pity.
13 You
shall not have
in your bag diverse
weights, one heavy
and one light.
14 You
shall not have
in your
house diverse measures, one
large and one
small.
15 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 the
LORD your God
gives you.
16 For
all who do
such things, all
who do
unrighteously, are
an abomination to
the LORD your
God.
17 Remember
what Amalek did
to you by
the way as
you came out
of Egypt,
18 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 didn’t fear God.
19 Therefore
it shall be,
when the LORD
your God has
given you rest
from all
your enemies all
around, in the
land which the
LORD 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.