Deuteronomy 25

1 If 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.

And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and [the judges] judge, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked:

2 And 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.

then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, thou shalt lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.

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

And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if thou shouldest scourge him [with] more stripes beyond these stripes, thy brother will be disgraced before thee.

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

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.

5 If 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.

And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out [of the family] to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.

6 Then 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.

And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of Israel.

7 But 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.

And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband's brother has refused.

8 Then 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;

And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not take her:

9 Then 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.

then his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Israel.

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

And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has had his shoe loosed.

11 If 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;

And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her hand, and take hold of his private parts;

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

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

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

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

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

Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

15 But 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.

Thou shalt have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that thou mayest live long upon the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

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

For every one that does this [is] an abomination to the Lord thy God, even every one that does injustice.

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

Remember what things Amalec did to thee by the way, when thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt:

18 How, 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.

how he withstood thee in the way, and harassed thy rear, [even] those that were weary behind thee, and thou didst hunger and wast weary; and he did not fear God.

19 So 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.

And it shall come to pass whenever the Lord thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about thee, in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalec from under heaven, and shalt not forget [to do it].