Deuteronomy 25
1WHEN a controversy happeneth between men, and they have come to a trial, and the trial is over, and the righteous is acquitted, and the criminal known;
2in case the criminal deserve to be beaten, thou shalt make him lie down, before the judges, and they shall cause him to be beaten, in their presence, according to his wickedness.
3With the number of forty stripes they may cause him to be beaten. They shall not exceed that. If thou shouldst proceed to inflict more stripes than these, thy brother will become vile in thy sight.
4Thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn.
5When brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and hath no issue, the wife of him who died shall not marry a man abroad, who is not near of kin. The brother of her husband shall go in unto her, and take her to wife, and cohabit with her;
6and the child which she shall bear shall go by the name of him who died, so that his name shall not be blotted out from among Israel.
7And if any man decline to take his brother’s wife, the woman shall go to the gate, to the senate, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up his brother’s name in Israel. My husband’s brother hath refused.
8Thereupon the senate of his city shall send for him, and say to him, Thou must stand up, and say, I will not take her.
9Upon which his brother’s wife shall come, in the presence of the senate, and loose one shoe from his foot, and spit before his face, and addressing him, say, So shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house in Israel.
10And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who had his shoe loosed.
11When men fight together—a man with his brother, if the wife of one of them come to rescue her husband out of the hand of him who is beating him, and stretching forth her hand, take hold of his privities,
12thou shalt cut off her hand. Thine eye shall not have compassion on her.
13Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small; nor shall there be in thy house, different measures, a great and a small.
14Thou shalt have a just and true weight,
15and thou shalt have a just and true measure; that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession;
16for everyone who doth these things—everyone who committeth injustice, is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
17Remember what Amalek did to thee by the way, when thou wast coming out of the land of Egypt—
18how he rose up against thee, in the way, and smote thy rear, those who were faint behind thee. Thou indeed wast hungry, and faint, and he feared not God.
19Therefore when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies around thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Thou must not forget.