“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].”
(Deuteronomy 25:1-19 AV)
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