1If there is a quarrel between men, they shall present themselves at the judiciary, and
the judges will judge them, and they will justify the one in the right and condemn the one in the wrong.
2And it will be
the case, if the one in the wrong
is deserving of a beating, that the judge will make him fall down, and he will beat him in front of him, in number according to his wrongdoing.
3He may beat him with forty
strokes,
but he shall not exceed
that, so that he does not beat more than this
number – a great beating – and your brother is made light of in your sight.
4You shall not muzzle the ox when it is threshing.
5If some brothers live together and one of them dies, and he has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become
the wife of a foreigner outside.
Her brother-in-law will go in to her and take her as his wife, and he will marry her in the capacity of the deceased husband's brother.
6And it will be
the case that the firstborn whom she bears will be raised in the name of his deceased brother, so his name shall not be blotted out from Israel.
7But if the man is not willing to take his sister-in-law, then let his sister-in-law go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to raise a name in Israel to his brother – he is not willing as the deceased husband's brother to marry me.’
8Then the elders of his city will call him and speak to him, and
if he stands
his ground and says, ‘I do not wish to take her’,
9then his sister-in-law will approach him in the sight of the elders, and she will pull his shoe off his foot and spit in his face, and she will answer and say, ‘May it so be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.’
10And his name shall be known in Israel
as, ‘The house of the one with the shoe pulled off.’
11If
two men are striving together – a man and his brother – and the wife of one approaches to deliver her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she stretches out her hand and takes hold of his private parts,
12then you shall cut her hand off. Your eye shall not have pity.
13You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weight –
one large and
one small.
14You shall not have in your house two kinds of ephah,
one large and
one small.
15You shall have a full and just weight, you shall have a full and just ephah, so that your days may be prolonged on the land which the
Lord your God is giving you.
16For everyone
who does those
things is an abomination to the
Lord your God – everyone
who commits injustice.
17Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you were coming out of Egypt,
18what befell you on the way, when he attacked you in the rear – all those weak
at your rear – when you
were tired and weary, and he did not fear God.
19And it shall come to pass when the
Lord your God gives you rest from all your enemies round about in the land which the
Lord your God is giving you
as an inheritance, to take possession of it,
that you will wipe the memory of Amalek out from under the sky. You shall not forget.
Reference(s) in Chapter 25: v.4 ↔ 1 Corinthians 9:9, 1 Timothy 5:18 ● v.5 ↔ Matthew 22:24, Mark 12:19, Luke 20:28.