“If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and
the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and
condemning the guilty, then if the guilty man deserves to be
beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his
presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.
Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should
go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be
degraded in your sight.
“You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son,
the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to
a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her
as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. And
the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead
brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. And if the
man does not wish 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 refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will
not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.’ Then the elders
of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists,
saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’ then his brother's wife shall
go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off
his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So
shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's
house.’ And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, ‘The
house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’
“When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws
near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him
and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you
shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
“You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and
a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a
large and a small. A full and fair weight you shall have, a full
and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the
land that the LORD your God is giving you. For all who do such
things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD
your God.
“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of
Egypt, how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and
weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you,
and he did not fear God. Therefore when the LORD your God has given
you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the
LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you
shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall
not forget.
