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.
Si fuerit causa inter aliquos, et interpellaverint judices: quem justum esse perspexerint, illi justitiæ palmam dabunt: quem impium, condemnabunt impietatis.
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.
Sin autem eum, qui peccavit, dignum viderint plagis: prosternent, et coram se facient verberari. Pro mensura peccati erit et plagarum modus:
3 He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.
ita dumtaxat, ut quadragenarium numerum non excedant: ne fœde laceratus ante oculos tuos abeat frater tuus.
4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
Non ligabis os bovis terentis in area fruges tuas.
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.
Quando habitaverint fratres simul, et unus ex eis absque liberis mortuus fuerit, uxor defuncti non nubet alteri: sed accipiet eam frater ejus, et suscitabit semen fratris sui:
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.
et primogenitum ex ea filium nomine illius appellabit, ut non deleatur nomen ejus ex Israël.
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.
Sin autem noluerit accipere uxorem fratris sui, quæ ei lege debetur, perget mulier ad portam civitatis, et interpellabit majores natu, dicetque: Non vult frater viri mei suscitare nomen fratris sui in Israël, nec me in conjugem sumere.
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;
Statimque accersiri eum facient, et interrogabunt. Si responderit: Nolo eam uxorem accipere:
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.
accedet mulier ad eum coram senioribus, et tollet calceamentum de pede ejus, spuetque in faciem illius, et dicet: Sic fiet homini, qui non ædificat domum fratris sui.
10 And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.
Et vocabitur nomen illius in Israël, Domus discalceati.
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;
Si habuerint inter se jurgium viri duo, et unus contra alterum rixari cœperit, volensque uxor alterius eruere virum suum de manu fortioris, miseritque manum, et apprehenderit verenda ejus:
12 Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.
abscides manum illius, nec flecteris super eam ulla misericordia.
13 Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
Non habebis in sacculo diversa pondera, majus et minus:
14 Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
nec erit in domo tua modius major, et minor.
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.
Pondus habebis justum et verum, et modius æqualis et verus erit tibi: ut multo vivas tempore super terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi.
16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
Abominatur enim Dominus tuus eum qui facit hæc, et aversatur omnem injustitiam.
17 Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;
Memento quæ fecerit tibi Amalec in via quando egrediebaris ex Ægypto:
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.
quomodo occurrerit tibi, et extremos agminis tui, qui lassi residebant, ceciderit, quando tu eras fame et labore confectus: et non timuerit Deum.
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.
Cum ergo Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi requiem, et subjecerit cunctas per circuitum nationes in terra, quam tibi pollicitus est: delebis nomen ejus sub cælo. Cave ne obliviscaris.
