Deuteronomy 25
1 “When there is a dispute between men and they come before the court to be judged, the judges shall acquit the innocent and condemn the guilty.
2 If the guilty man deserves a whipping, the judge shall make him lie down and have him whipped in his presence, with the number of lashes his guilt deserves.
3 He may give him forty lashes, but no more. If he goes beyond that and gives him many more, your brother will be degraded in your eyes.
4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.
5 When brothers live together and one of them dies without leaving a son, the dead man’s wife must not marry outside the family to a stranger. Her brother-in-law shall take her as his wife and fulfill his duty as a brother-in-law to her.
6 The first son she bears shall carry the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be erased from Israel.
7 But the man may not want to take his brother’s wife. Then she shall go to the city gate, to the elders, and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is unwilling to fulfill his duty as a brother-in-law to me.’
8 The elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. He shall stand and say, ‘I do not want to take her.’
9 Then his brother’s wife shall approach him in the presence of the elders, remove the sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and say, ‘This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s household.’
10 His name in Israel shall be ‘The House of the Man Whose Sandal Was Removed.’”
11 “If two men are fighting with each other and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the man beating him, and she reaches out and grabs the other man’s private parts,
12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
13 Do not keep two different weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
14 Do not keep two different measures in your house, one large and one small.
15 You shall have a full and fair weight, and a full and fair measure, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
16 For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly, is detestable to the LORD your God.
17 Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you came out of Egypt.
18 He met you on the way and attacked all those lagging behind, striking your rear, when you were tired and worn out. He did not fear God.
19 When the LORD your God gives you rest from all your enemies around you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall wipe out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.”
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