Deuteronomy 25

1 If there is some legal argument between two people, they are to go to court to have the case judged, in order to justify the one who is right and condemn the one who is wrong.

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 If the person who is guilty is sentenced to be flogged, the judge shall order them to lie down and be flogged before him with the number of lashes the crime deserves.

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 They are not to receive more than forty lashes. More than that would be to publicly humiliate them.

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 Don't muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

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

5 When two brothers live near to each other and one of them dies without having a son, the widow is not to marry a stranger outside the family. Her husband's brother is to marry her and sleep with her, fulfilling the requirements of a brother-in-law to provide her with children.

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 The first son she has will be named after the dead brother, so that his name won't be forgotten 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 However, if the man refuses to marry his brother's widow, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and tell them, “My husband's brother is refusing to keep his brother's name alive in Israel. He doesn't want to perform the requirements of a brother-in-law for me.”

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 The town elders are to summon him and talk with him. If he continues to refuse and says, “I don't want to marry 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 his brother's widow is to confront him in the presence of the elders, pull off his sandal, spit in his face, and announce, “This is what happens to the man who refuses to keep his brother's family name alive.”

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 From then on his family name in Israel will be called “The Family of the Pulled-off Sandal.”

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

11 If two men are fighting, and one of their wives intervenes to save her husband from being beaten, and she grabs hold of the attacker's genitals,

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 you are to cut her hand off. Don't show her any mercy.

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

13 Don't have two different measuring weights in your bag, one that's heavy and one that's light.

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

14 Don't have two different measuring containers in your house, one that's large and one that's small.

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

15 Make sure you always use accurate and true weights and measures. In that way you will have long lives in the country 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 Anyone who doesn't do so and cheats like this offends the Lord your God.

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

17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way out of Egypt.

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

18 The came out to confront you when you were tired and weary from your journey, and they attacked all those of you who were lagging behind. They didn't have any respect for 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 Once the Lord your God gives you peace after fighting your enemies in the country that he's giving you to take over and own, you are to wipe out even the memory of the Amalekites from the earth. Don't forget!

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.