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.

If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges judge them, then they will acquit 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.

If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, then the judge will make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the ordered number of blows, as was his crime.

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

The judge may give him forty blows, but he may not exceed that number; for if he should exceed that number and beat him with many more blows, then your fellow Israelite would be humiliated before your eyes.

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

You must not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

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.

If brothers live together and one of them dies, not having any son, then the wife of the dead man must not be married off to someone else outside the family. Instead, her husband's brother must sleep with her and take her to himself as a wife, and do the duty of a husband's brother to 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.

This is so that the firstborn that she bears will succeed in the name of that man's dead brother, so that his name will not perish from 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.

But if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife for himself, then his brother's wife must go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to raise up for his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'

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;

Then the elders of his city must call him and speak to him. But suppose that he insists and says, 'I do not wish to 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 must come up to him in the presence of the elders, take off his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She must answer him and say, 'This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'

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

His name will be called in Israel, 'The house of him whose sandal has been taken off.'

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;

If men fight with each other, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband out of the hand of him who struck him, and if she stretches out her hand and takes him by the private parts,

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

then you must cut off her hand; your eye must have no pity.

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

You must not have in your bag different weights, a large and a small.

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

You must not have in your house different measures, a large 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.

A perfect and just weight you must have; a perfect and just measure you must have, so that your days may be long in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.

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

For all who do such things, all that act unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

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

Call to mind what Amalek did to you on the road as you came out 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 met you on the road and attacked those of you at the rear, all who were feeble in your rear, when you were faint and weary; he did not honor 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.

Therefore, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you must not forget that you must blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.