1 I f there is a controversy between men, and they come into court and the judges decide between them, justifying the innocent and condemning the guilty,

`When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,

2 T hen if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a certain number of stripes according to his offense.

then it hath come to pass, if the wrong-doer is to be smitten, that the judge hath caused him to fall down, and hath smitten him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrong-doing, by number;

3 F orty stripes may be given him but not more, lest, if he should be beaten with many stripes, your brother should seem low and worthless to you.

forty he doth smite him -- he is not adding, lest, he is adding to smite him above these -- many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes.

4 Y ou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

`Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.

5 I f brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, his wife 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.

`When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

6 A nd the firstborn son shall succeed to the name of the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.

7 A nd if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuses to continue his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.

`And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother;

8 T hen the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. And if he stands firm and says, I do not want to take her,

and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her;

9 T hen shall his brother’s wife come to him in the presence of the elders and pull his shoe off his foot and spit in his face and shall answer, So shall it be done to that man who does not build up his brother’s house.

`Then hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother;

10 A nd his family shall be called in Israel, The House of Him Whose Shoe Was Loosed.

and his name hath been called in Israel -- The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.

11 W hen men strive together one with another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband out of the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes the other man by the private parts,

`When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets,

12 T hen you shall cut off her hand; your eyes shall not pity her.

then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.

13 Y ou shall not have in your bag true and false weights, a large and a small.

`Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.

14 Y ou shall not have in your house true and false measures, a large and a small.

Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.

15 B ut you shall have a perfect and just weight and a perfect and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

16 F or all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord your God.

for the abomination of Jehovah thy God any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

17 R emember what Amalek did to you on the way when you had come forth from Egypt,

`Remember that which Amalek hath done to thee in the way, in your going out from Egypt,

18 H ow he did not fear God, but when you were faint and weary he attacked you along the way and cut off all the stragglers at your rear.

that he hath met thee in the way, and smiteth in all those feeble behind thee (and thou wearied and fatigued), and is not fearing God.

19 T herefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you must not forget.

And it hath been, in Jehovah thy God's giving rest to thee, from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance to possess it -- thou dost blot out the rememberance of Amalek from under the heavens -- thou dost not forget.