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Deuteronomy 25

¹If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

²And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.

³He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

⁴Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

⁵If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.

⁶Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.

⁷But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.

⁸Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;

⁹Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.

¹⁰And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.

¹¹If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;

¹²Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

¹³Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;

¹⁴Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.

¹⁵But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹⁶For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

¹⁷Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;

¹⁸How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.

¹⁹So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.

Deuteronomy 25

¹If 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;

²and 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.

³Forty 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.

⁴You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

⁵If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have 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 to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

⁶It 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.

⁷If 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."

⁸Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I do not want to take her";

⁹then his brother's wife shall 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 who does not build up his brother's house."

¹⁰His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.

¹¹When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

¹²then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

¹³You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

¹⁴You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.

¹⁵You 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.

¹⁶For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord your God.

¹⁷Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;

¹⁸how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

¹⁹Therefore 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.