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 case between persons, and they apply to the judges, they shall give the palm of justice to the one whom they perceive to be just, and they shall condemn of impiety the one who is impious.

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.

But if they see that the one who has sinned is worthy of stripes, they shall prostrate him and cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin, so shall the measure of the stripes be.

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

Even so, these shall not exceed the number of forty. Otherwise, your brother may depart, having been wounded shamefully before your eyes.

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

You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out your crops in the field.

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.

When brothers are living together, and one of them dies without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry another. Instead, his brother shall take her, and he shall raise up offspring for his brother.

6 The first son she has will be named after the dead brother, so that his name won't be forgotten in Israel.

And the first son from her, he shall call by his brother’s name, so that his name will not be abolished 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 he is not willing to take his brother’s wife, who by law must go to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and she shall call upon those greater by birth, and she shall say: ‘The brother of my husband is not willing to raise up his brother’s name in Israel; nor will he join with 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,”

And immediately, they shall summon him to be sent, and they shall question him. If he responds, ‘I am not willing to accept her as a wife,’

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 the woman shall approach him in the sight of the elders, and she shall remove his shoe from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall say: ‘So shall it be done to the man who was not willing to 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.”

And his name shall be called in Israel: The House of the Unshod.

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 two men have a conflict between themselves, and one begins to do violence to the other, and if the other’s wife, wanting to rescue her husband from the hand of the stronger one, extends her hand and grasps him by his private parts,

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

then you shall cut off her hand. Neither shall you weep over her with any mercy.

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

You shall not have differing weights, greater and lesser, in your bag.

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

Neither shall there be in your house a greater and a lesser measure.

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.

You shall have a just and a true weight, and your measure shall be equal and true, so that you may live for a long time upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.

16 Anyone who doesn't do so and cheats like this offends the Lord your God.

For the Lord your God abominates him who does these things, and he loathes all injustice.

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

Remember what Amalek did to you, along the way, when you were departing from 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 and cut down the stragglers of the troops, who were sitting down, exhausted, when you were consumed by hunger and hardship, and how he did not fear 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 the Lord your God will give you rest, and you will have subdued all the surrounding nations, in the land which he has promised to you, you shall delete his name from under heaven. Take care not to forget this.”