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.

1If there be a controversy between men, and they resort to judgment, and they judge [their case]; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

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.

2And it shall be if the wicked man have deserved to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and be beaten before his face, according to the measure of his wickedness with a certain number [of stripes].

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

3With forty [stripes] shall they beat him; they shall not exceed, lest, if they continue to beat him with many stripes above these, thy brother become despicable in thine eyes.

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

4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].

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.

5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger abroad: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

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.

6And it shall be, that the firstborn that she beareth shall stand in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out from 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.

7But if the man like not to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel: he will not perform for me the duty of a husband's brother.

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;

8Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him; and if he stand to it and say, I like not to 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.

9then shall his brother's wife come near to him before the eyes of the elders, and draw his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that will not build up his brother's house.

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

10And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe drawn 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;

11When men fight together one with another, and the wife of the one come near to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and stretch out her hand, and seize him by his secret parts,

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

12thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare.

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

13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

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

14Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs, 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.

15A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thyGod giveth thee.

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

16For every one that doeth such things, every one that doeth unrighteousness, is an abomination to Jehovah thyGod.

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

17Remember what Amalek did unto thee on the way, when ye came forth out of 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.

18how he met thee on the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all the feeble that lagged behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary, and he feared notGod.

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.

19And it shall be, when Jehovah thyGod shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land that Jehovah thyGod giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; thou shalt not forget it.