דברים 25
| כי יהיה ריב בין אנשים ונגשו אל המשפט ושפטום והצדיקו את הצדיק והרשיעו את הרשע׃ | 1 |
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.
| והיה אם בן הכות הרשע והפילו השפט והכהו לפניו כדי רשעתו במספר׃ | 2 |
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.
| ארבעים יכנו לא יסיף פן יסיף להכתו על אלה מכה רבה ונקלה אחיך לעיניך׃ | 3 |
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.
| לא תחסם שור בדישו׃ | 4 |
You must not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
| כי ישבו אחים יחדו ומת אחד מהם ובן אין לו לא תהיה אשת המת החוצה לאיש זר יבמה יבא עליה ולקחה לו לאשה ויבמה׃ | 5 |
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.
| והיה הבכור אשר תלד יקום על שם אחיו המת ולא ימחה שמו מישראל׃ | 6 |
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.
| ואם לא יחפץ האיש לקחת את יבמתו ועלתה יבמתו השערה אל הזקנים ואמרה מאן יבמי להקים לאחיו שם בישראל לא אבה יבמי׃ | 7 |
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.'
| וקראו לו זקני עירו ודברו אליו ועמד ואמר לא חפצתי לקחתה׃ | 8 |
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.'
| ונגשה יבמתו אליו לעיני הזקנים וחלצה נעלו מעל רגלו וירקה בפניו וענתה ואמרה ככה יעשה לאיש אשר לא יבנה את בית אחיו׃ | 9 |
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.'
| ונקרא שמו בישראל בית חלוץ הנעל׃ | 10 |
His name will be called in Israel, 'The house of him whose sandal has been taken off.'
| כי ינצו אנשים יחדו איש ואחיו וקרבה אשת האחד להציל את אישה מיד מכהו ושלחה ידה והחזיקה במבשיו׃ | 11 |
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,
| וקצתה את כפה לא תחוס עינך׃ | 12 |
then you must cut off her hand; your eye must have no pity.
| לא יהיה לך בכיסך אבן ואבן גדולה וקטנה׃ | 13 |
You must not have in your bag different weights, a large and a small.
| לא יהיה לך בביתך איפה ואיפה גדולה וקטנה׃ | 14 |
You must not have in your house different measures, a large and a small.
| אבן שלמה וצדק יהיה לך איפה שלמה וצדק יהיה לך למען יאריכו ימיך על האדמה אשר יהוה אלהיך נתן לך׃ | 15 |
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.
| כי תועבת יהוה אלהיך כל עשה אלה כל עשה עול׃ | 16 |
For all who do such things, all that act unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
| זכור את אשר עשה לך עמלק בדרך בצאתכם ממצרים׃ | 17 |
Call to mind what Amalek did to you on the road as you came out of Egypt,
| אשר קרך בדרך ויזנב בך כל הנחשלים אחריך ואתה עיף ויגע ולא ירא אלהים׃ | 18 |
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.
| והיה בהניח יהוה אלהיך לך מכל איביך מסביב בארץ אשר יהוה אלהיך נתן לך נחלה לרשתה תמחה את זכר עמלק מתחת השמים לא תשכח׃ | 19 |
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.
