DE-25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come
unto judgment,
that [the judges] may judge them; then they shall justify the
righteous, and
condemn the wicked.
DE-25:2 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 fault, by a certain number.
DE-25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed: lest,
[if] he should
exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy
brother should
seem vile unto thee.
DE-25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the
corn].
DE-25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and
have no child,
the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger:
her husband's
brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and
perform the
duty of an husband's brother unto her.
DE-25:6 And it shall be, [that] the firstborn which she beareth
shall succeed
in the name of his brother [which is] dead, that his name be not
put out of
Israel.
DE-25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife,
then let his
brother's wife 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 the duty of my husband's brother.
DE-25:8 Then 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;
DE-25:9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the
presence of the
elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his
face, and shall
answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not
build up his
brother's house.
DE-25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of
him that hath
his shoe loosed.
DE-25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the
wife of the one
draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him
that smiteth
him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
DE-25:12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not
pity [her].
DE-25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great
and a small.
DE-25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a
great and a
small.
DE-25:15 [But] thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a
perfect and just
measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the
land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee.
DE-25:16 For all that do such things, [and] all that do
unrighteously, [are]
an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
DE-25:17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye
were come
forth out of Egypt;
DE-25:18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of
thee, [even]
all [that were] feeble behind thee, when thou [wast] faint and
weary; and he
feared not God.
DE-25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath
given thee rest
from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD
thy God giveth
thee [for] an inheritance to possess it, [that] thou shalt blot
out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget
[it].
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