Deuteronomy Chapter 25

Deuteronomy Chapter 25
1 When there shall be strife between
men, and they shall come unto judgment,
and sentence shall be given upon them,
and the righteous shall be justified, and
the wicked condemned,
2 Then if so be the wicked be worthy to
be beaten, the judge shall cause him to
lie down, and to be beaten before his
face, according to his trespass, unto a
certain number.
3 Forty stripes shall he cause him to
have and not past, lest if he should
exceed and beat him above that with
many stripes, thy brother should appear
despised in thy sight.
4 Thou shalt not mussel the ox that
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: that is,
unto a stranger, but his kinsman shall go
in unto her, and take her to wife, and do
the kinsman’s office to her. 6 And 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 will not take his
kinswoman, then let his kinswoman go
up to the gate unto the elders, and say,
My kinsman refuseth to raise up unto his
brother a name in Israel: he will not do
the office of a kinsman unto me. 8 Then
the elders of his city shall call him, and
commune with him: if he stand and say, I
will not take her,
9 Then shall his kinswoman come unto
him in the presence of the elders, and
loose his shoe from his foot, and spit in
his face, and 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 whose shoe is put off.
11 When men strive together, one with
another, if the wife of the one come near,
for to rid her husband out of the hands of
him that smiteth him, and put forth her
hand, and take him by his privities,
12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand: thine
eye shall not spare her. 13 Thou shalt not
have in thy bag two manner of weights, a
great and a small, 14 Neither shalt thou
have in thine house divers measures, a
great and a small:
15 But thou shalt have a right and just
weight: a perfect and a 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 abomination
unto the Lord thy God.
17 Remember what Amalek did unto
thee by the way, when ye were come out
of Egypt:
18 How he met thee by the way, and
smote the hindmost of you, all that were
feeble behind thee, when thou wast
fainted and weary, and he feared not
God.
19 Therefore, 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, then thou shalt
put out the remembrance of Amalek from
under heaven: forget not.