1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto
judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall
justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
2 And
it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge
shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his
fault, by a certain number.
3 Forty
stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he
should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother
should seem vile unto thee.
4 Thou
shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
5 If
brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of
the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall
go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an
husband's brother unto her.
6 And
it shall be, that the
firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead,
that his name be not put out of Israel.
7 And
if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go
up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise
up unto his brother a 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 unto him: and if he
stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
9 Then
shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose
his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So
shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
10 And
his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
11 When
men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for
to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth
forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
12 Then
thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
13 Thou
shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
14 Thou
shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just
weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be
lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
16 For
all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
17 Remember
what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
18 How
he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble
behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not
God.
19 Therefore
it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies
round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of
Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
