Deuteronomy 25

Sundry Laws

1“1If there is a dispute between men and they go to 2court, and 3the judges decide their case, 4and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, 2then it shall be if the wicked man 56deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his 7guilt. 38He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not 9degraded in your eyes.

4“10You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

5“When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. 11Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall 12assume the name of his dead brother, so that 13his name will not be blotted out from Israel. 714But if the man does not desire 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 establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ 8Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’ 915then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and 16spit in his face; and she shall 17declare, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’ 10In Israel his name shall be called, ‘The house of him whose sandal is removed.’

11“If two men, a man and his 18countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, 12then you shall cut off her 19hand; 2021you shall not show pity.

13“22You shall not have in your bag 23differing weights, a large and a small. 14You shall not have in your house 24differing measures, a large and a small. 15You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just 25measure, 26that your days may be prolonged in the 27land which the Lord your God gives you. 16For 28everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God.

17“29Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt, 18how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he 30did not 31fear God. 19Therefore it shall come about when the Lord your God has given you 32rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance to 33possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.