Deuteronomy 25
Judges are to render fair verdicts in disputes, and if a guilty party deserves physical punishment, they are to be beaten with a number of stripes proportionate to their offense, but not exceeding 40. An ox is not to be muzzled while working in the field, and a widow's brother-in-law is to marry her if her husband dies without children, to preserve the deceased brother's name. If the brother-in-law refuses, the widow is to publicly shame him by removing his shoe and spitting in his face. In a physical altercation between two men, if a woman intervenes by grabbing one of the men's private parts, her hand is to be cut off. The use of dishonest weights and measures is forbidden, and the Israelites are to remember the treachery of Amalek and ultimately destroy them when the Lord gives them rest in the promised land.
1"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 impious2But 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 be3Even so, these shall not exceed the number of forty. Otherwise, your brother may depart, having been wounded shamefully before your eyes4You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out your crops in the field5When 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 brother6And the first son from her, he shall call by his brother’s name, so that his name will not be abolished from Israel7But 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.8And 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,9then 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.10And his name shall be called in Israel: The House of the Unshod11If 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 parts12then you shall cut off her hand. Neither shall you weep over her with any mercy13You shall not have differing weights, greater and lesser, in your bag14Neither shall there be in your house a greater and a lesser measure15You 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 you16For the Lord your God abominates him who does these things, and he loathes all injustice17Remember what Amalek did to you, along the way, when you were departing from Egypt18how 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 God19Therefore, 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.
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