25:1 When men have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.
25:2 If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and have him flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime deserves,
25:3 but he must not give him more than forty lashes. If he is flogged more than that, your brother will be degraded in your eyes.
25:4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
25:5 If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
25:6 The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
25:7 However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”
25:8 Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,”
25:9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”
25:10 That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
25:11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts,
25:12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
25:13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag–one heavy, one light.
25:14 Do not have two differing measures in your house–one large, one small.
25:15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
25:16 For the LORD your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.
25:17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt.
25:18 When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and cut off all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.
25:19 When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
25:1 If there is a dispute between men, and they approach the court, and the judges judge them, they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
25:2 And if the wicked man is worthy of beating, the judge shall make him lie down and have him beaten before him as is sufficient for his wickedness, by number.
25:3 Forty blows he may give him; he shall not exceed, lest, in exceeding, he beat him beyond these with many blows and your brother be degraded before your eyes.
25:4 You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
25:5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and he has no son, the wife of the deceased man shall not become the wife of a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in unto her and take her as his wife, and he shall do the duty of a husband’s brother for her.
25:6 And the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his deceased brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel.
25:7 And if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name in Israel to his brother; he is not willing to do the duty of a husband’s brother for me.
25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, I do not desire to take her;
25:9 Then his brother’s wife shall draw near to him in the sight of the elders and remove his sandal from off his foot, and she shall spit in his face and respond and say, Thus shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.
25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him whose sandal has been removed.
25:11 When two men fight together, a man and his brother, and the wife of the one comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and she puts forth her hand and takes hold of his private parts;
25:12 Then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.
25:13 You shall not have in your bag differing weights, one heavy and one light.
25:14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, one large and one small.
25:15 A full and righteous weight you shall have, and a full and righteous measure you shall have, in order that your days may be extended upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.
25:16 For everyone who does these things, everyone who does unrighteousness, is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you came out of Egypt,
25:18 That he met you on the way and struck you at the rear, struck all those who were worn out at your rear, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.
25:19 Therefore when Jehovah your God gives you rest from all your enemies surrounding you, in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.