Deuteronomii 25
1 Si fuerit causa inter aliquos, et interpellaverint iudices: quem iustum esse perspexerint, illi iustitiæ palmam dabunt: quem impium, condemnabunt impietatis.
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 Sin autem eum, qui peccavit, dignum viderint plagis: prosternent, et coram se facient verberari. Pro mensura peccati erit et plagarum modus:
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 ita dumtaxat, ut quadragenarium numerum non excedant: ne fœde laceratus ante oculos tuos abeat frater tuus.
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 Non ligabis os bovis terentis in area fruges tuas.
You must not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
5 Quando habitaverint fratres simul, et unus ex eis absque liberis mortuus fuerit, uxor defuncti non nubet alteri: sed accipiet eam frater eius, et suscitabit semen fratris sui:
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 et primogenitum ex ea filium nomine illius appellabit, ut non deleatur nomen eius ex 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 Sin autem noluerit accipere uxorem fratris sui, quæ ei lege debetur, perget mulier ad portam civitatis, et interpellabit maiores natu, dicetque: Non vult frater viri mei suscitare nomen fratris sui in Israel: nec me in coniugem sumere.
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 Statimque accersiri eum facient, et interrogabunt. Si responderit: Nolo eam uxorem accipere:
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 accedet mulier ad eum coram senioribus, et tollet calceamentum de pede eius, spuetque in faciem illius, et dicet: Sic fiet homini, qui non ædificat domum fratris sui.
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 Et vocabitur nomen illius in Israel, Domus discalceati.
His name will be called in Israel, 'The house of him whose sandal has been taken off.'
11 Si habuerint inter se iurgium viri duo, et unus contra alterum rixari cœperit, volensque uxor alterius eruere virum suum de manu fortioris, miseritque manum, et apprehenderit verenda eius:
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 abscides manum illius, nec flecteris super eam ulla misericordia.
then you must cut off her hand; your eye must have no pity.
13 Non habebis in sacculo diversa pondera, maius et minus:
You must not have in your bag different weights, a large and a small.
14 nec erit in domo tua modius maior et minor.
You must not have in your house different measures, a large and a small.
15 Pondus habebis iustum et verum, et modius æqualis et verus erit tibi: ut multo vivas tempore super Terram, quam Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi.
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 Abominatur enim Dominus tuus eum, qui facit hæc, et aversatur omnem iniustitiam.
For all who do such things, all that act unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
17 Memento quæ fecerit tibi Amalec in via quando egrediebaris ex Ægypto:
Call to mind what Amalek did to you on the road as you came out of Egypt,
18 quomodo occurrerit tibi: et extremos agminis tui, qui lassi residebant, ceciderit, quando tu eras fame et labore confectus, et non timuerit Deum.
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 Cum ergo Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi requiem, et subiecerit cunctas per circuitum nationes in Terra, quam tibi pollicitus est: delebis nomen eius sub cælo. Cave ne obliviscaris.
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.
