THE
BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY
Deuteronomy
Chapter 25
1
¶ If there is a controversy between men, and they take their case to court,
that the judges may decide between them; then the judges must justify
the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
2
And if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie
down, and to be beaten in his presence, with a certain number of stripes, in
proportion to his offence.
3
He may give him up to forty stripes, no more: otherwise, if he
exceeds that, and beats him with many more, your brother will seem vile to you.
4
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn.
5
¶ If brothers live together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife
of the dead brother shall not marry outside the family: her brother in
law is to take her as wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
6
And it shall be, that the firstborn that she bears will carry on in the
name of the brother who died, so his name is not blotted out of
7
And if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s
wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate
his brother’s name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s
brother.
8
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he
persists, and says, I do not want to take her;
9
Then his brother’s wife shall come up to him in the presence of the elders, and
remove his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, then she shall declare, So
shall it be done to that man who will not build up his brother’s house.
10
And his family name in Israel shall be called, The house of him who had
his shoe removed.
11
When two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one rushes in
to save her husband from the one hitting him, and reaches out with her hand,
and seizes him by the private parts:
12
Then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity her.
13
¶ You must not have two different weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
14
You shall not have in your house two different measures, one large and one
small.
15
Instead you must have an accurate and just weight, and an accurate and
just measure: that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your
God gives you.
16
For all who do such things, and all that act unrighteously, are
an abomination to the LORD your God.
17
Remember what Amalek did to you along the way, after you had come out of Egypt;
18
How he did not fear God, and met you along the way, and attacked your
stragglers, all who lagged behind, when you were faint and weary.
19
Therefore after the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies
round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess as
an inheritance, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven;
you must not forget.