Deuteronomy 25

Deu 25:1 If there is a contention between men, and they come to judgment, and they have been judged, and the righteous one is declared righteous, and the wrongdoer declared guilty;
Deu 25:2 then it shall be, if the wrongdoer is a son of stripes, the judge shall cause him to fall down. And one shall strike him before his face, enough for his wickedness, by number.
Deu 25:3 He may give him forty stripes; he shall not add more, lest, if he should exceed and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother would be dishonored before your eyes.
Deu 25:4 You shall not muzzle an ox when he is treading out grain.
Deu 25:5 If brothers live together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not go outside to a strange man; her brother-in-law shall go in to her, and take her to himself for a wife, and shall perform the duty of the levirate;
Deu 25:6 and it shall be, the first-born which she bears shall rise up for his dead brother’s name, and his name shall not be wiped out of Israel.
Deu 25:7 And if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother is refusing to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he has not been willing to perform the duty of my levirate.
Deu 25:8 And the elders of his city shall call for him and shall speak to him. And he shall stand and say, I have no desire to take her.
Deu 25:9 Then his brother’s wife shall draw near to him before the elders, and shall take his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So it shall be done to the man who will not build up the house of his brother.
Deu 25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him whose shoe was taken off.
Deu 25:11 When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one shall come near to deliver her husband from his assailant’s hand, and shall put out her hand and lay hold on his genitals,
Deu 25:12 then you shall cut off her palm; your eye shall not pity.
Deu 25:13 You shall not have in your bag a stone and a stone weight, a great and a small.
Deu 25:14 You shall not have in your house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.
Deu 25:15 You shall have a perfect and just weight; you shall have a perfect and just ephah; so that they prolong your days in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you.
Deu 25:16 For anyone doing these things is hateful to Jehovah your God, everyone doing unrighteously.
Deu 25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;
Deu 25:18 how he met you on the way and attacked your back, all the feeble ones in the rear, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.
Deu 25:19 And it shall be, when Jehovah your God gives you rest from all your enemies all around in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance to possess it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget.

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