" aIf there is a dispute
between
men
and they go
to 1court
, and 2the judges
decide
their case, band they justify
the righteous
and condemn
the wicked
,
then it shall be if the wicked
man
1 adeserves
to be beaten
, the judge
shall then make him lie
down
and be beaten
in his presence
with the number
of stripes according
to his 2guilt
.
" aHe may beat him forty
times
but no
more
, so
that he does not beat
him with many
more
stripes
than
these
and your brother
is not bdegraded
in your eyes
.
" aYou shall not muzzle the ox
while he is threshing
.
"When brothers
live
together
and one
of them dies
and has
no
son
, the wife
of the deceased
shall not be married outside
the family to a strange
man
. aHer husband's
brother
shall go
in to her and take
her to himself as wife
and perform
the duty
of a husband's
brother
to her.
"It shall be that the firstborn whom
she bears
shall 1assume
the name
of his dead
brother
, so that ahis name
will not be blotted
out from Israel
.
" aBut if the man
does not desire
to take
his brother's
wife
, then his brother's
wife
shall go
up to the gate
to the elders
and say
, `My husband's
brother
refuses
to establish
a name
for his brother
in Israel
; he is not willing
to perform
the duty
of a husband's
brother
to me.'
"Then the elders of his city
shall summon
him and speak
to him. And if he persists
and says
, `I do not desire
to take
her,'
athen his brother's wife
shall come
to him in the sight
of the elders
, and pull
his sandal
off
his foot
and bspit
in his face
; and she shall 1declare
, `Thus
it is done
to the man
who
does not build
up his brother's
house
.'
"In Israel his name
shall be called
, `The house
of him whose sandal
is removed
.'
"If two men
, a man
and his 1countryman
, are struggling
together
, and the wife
of one
comes
near
to deliver
her husband
from the hand
of the one who is striking
him, and puts
out her hand
and seizes
his genitals
,
then you shall cut off
her 1hand
; 2 ayou shall not show
pity
.
" aYou shall not have in your bag
1differing
weights
, a large
and a small
.
"You shall not have in your house
1differing
measures
, a large
and a small
.
"You shall have a full
and just
weight
; you shall have
a full
and just
1measure
, athat your days
may be prolonged
in the 2land
which
the LORD
your God
gives
you.
"For aeveryone who
does
these
things
, everyone
who acts
unjustly
is an abomination
to the LORD
your God
.
" aRemember what
Amalek
did
to you along the way
when you came
out from Egypt
,
how he met
you along the way
and attacked
among you all
the stragglers
at your rear
when you were faint
and weary
; and he adid not 1fear
God
.
"Therefore it shall come about when the LORD
your God
has given
you arest
from all
your surrounding
enemies
, in the land
which
the LORD
your God
gives
you as an inheritance
to 1possess
, you shall blot
out the memory
of Amalek
from under
heaven
; you must not forget
.