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Deuteronomy 25
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- 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.
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