Deuteronomy 25

1 If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.

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 they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:

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 Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.

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 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.

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

5 When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:

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 And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of 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 he will not take his brother’s wife, who by law belongeth to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up his brother’s name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.

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 And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:

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 The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother’s house:

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 name shall be called in Israel, the house of the unshod.

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

11 If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against the other, and the other’s wife willing to deliver her husband out of the hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the secrets,

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 Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.

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

13 Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:

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

14 Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.

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

15 Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall be equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

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 the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he hateth all injustice.

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

17 Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out of Egypt:

Call to mind what Amalek did to you on the road as you came out of Egypt,

18 How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he feared not God.

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 Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall have subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath promised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou forget it not.

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.