1 « حِينَ يَقَعُ نِزاعٌ بَينَ شَخصَينِ، فَليَذْهَبا إلَى المَحكَمَةِ. وَعَلَى القُضاةِ أنْ يَفصِلُوا بَينَهُما، فَيُحَدِّدُوا مَنِ البَريءُ وَمَنِ المُذْنِبُ.

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

2 ف َإنْ كانَ المُذْنِبُ يَستَحِقُّ الجَلدَ، يأمُرُهُ القاضِي بِأنْ يَستَلْقِي عَلَى بَطنِهِ. وَيُجلَدُ أمامَ القاضِي بِما يَتَناسَبُ مَعَ ذَنبِهِ.

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 certain number of stripes according to his offense.

3 ع َلَى ألّا يَزِيدَ عَدَدُ الجَلْداتِ عَنْ أربَعِينَ. فَإنْ جَلَدُوهُ أكثَرَ، يَكُونُ ذَلِكَ إهانَةً عَلَنِيَّةً.

Forty 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.

4 « لا تُكَمِّمْ ثَوراً وَهْوَ يَدْرُسُ القَمحَ. وَاجِبُ أخِي الزَّوجِ نَحوَ أرملة أخيه

You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

5 « حِينَ يَسكُنُ إخْوَةٌ مَعاً وَيَمُوتُ أحَدُهُمْ دُونَ أنْ يَكُونَ قَدْ أنجَبَ ابْناً، فَلا يَنبَغي أنْ تَتَزَوَّجَ أرمَلَةُ المُتَوَفِّى مِنْ رَجُلٍ خارِجَ عائِلَةِ زَوجِها. عَلَى أخِي زَوجِها أنْ يَتَزَوَّجَها وَيُعاشِرَها، وَيَقُومَ بِواجِبِ أخِي الزَّوجِ تُجاهَها.

If 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.

6 و َأوَّلُ وَلَدٍ تَلِدُهُ سَيُعتَبَرُ ابْنَ المُتَوَفَّى. وَهَكَذا لا يُمحَى اسْمُهُ مِنْ إسْرائِيلَ.

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

7 « فَإنْ رَفَضَ الرَّجُلُ أنْ يَتَزَوَّجَ مِنْ أرمَلَةِ أخِيهِ، تَذْهَبُ إلَى الشُّيُوخِ عِندَ بَوّابَةِ المَدِينَةِ وَتَقُولُ لَهُمْ: ‹يَرفُضُ أخُو زَوجِي أنْ يَبقَى اسْمُ أخِيهِ فِي إسْرائِيلَ. وَلا يُريدُ القِيامَ بِواجِبِ أخِي الزَّوجِ مَعِي.›

And 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.

8 ف َيَستَدْعِيهِ شُيُوخُ مَدِينَتِهِ وَيُكَلِّمُوهُ. فَإنْ أصَرَّ وَقالَ: ‹لا أُرِيدُ الزَّواجَ مِنها.›

Then 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,

9 ت َتَقَدَّمُ أرمَلَةُ أخِيهِ إلَيهِ أمامَ الشُّيُوخِ، وَتَنزِعُ حِذاءَهُ مِنْ رِجلِهِ، وَتَبصُقُ فِي وَجهِهِ وَتَقُولُ: ‹هَذا ما يُصْنَعُ بِرَجُلٍ لا يُرِيدُ أنْ يُعطِيَ نَسلاً لِأخِيهِ.›

Then 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.

10 و َعِندَها تُعْرَفُ عائِلَتُهُ فِي إسْرائِيلَ بِاسْمِ ‹عائِلَةِ الحافِي!› تَدَخُّلُ امْرأةٍ فِي شِجار

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

11 « إذا تَشاجَرَ رَجُلانِ، وَأتَتْ زَوجَةُ أحَدِهِما لِتُنقِذَ زَوجَها مِنَ الرَّجُلِ الَّذِي كانَ يَضرِبُهُ، وَمَدَّتْ يَدَها وَأمسَكَتْ بِعُضْوِهِ،

When 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,

12 ف اقطَعُوا يَدَها، وَلا تُظهِرُوا شَفَقَةً عَلَيها. فِي التِّجارَة

Then you shall cut off her hand; your eyes shall not pity her.

13 « لا تَحتَفِظْ فِي كِيسِكَ بِمِعيارٍ ثَقِيلٍ وَآخَرَ خَفِيفٍ.

You shall not have in your bag true and false weights, a large and a small.

14 و َلا يَكُنْ فِي بَيتِكَ مِكيالٌ كَبِيرٌ وَآخَرَ صَغِيرٌ.

You shall not have in your house true and false measures, a large and a small.

15 ب َلْ لِيَكُنْ لَكَ مِعيارٌ سَلِيمٌ وَكامِلٌ، وَمِكيالٌ سَلِيمٌ وَكامِلٌ، لِتَحيا طَوِيلاً فِي الأرْضِ الَّتِي سَيُعطِيها إلَهُكَ لَكَ.

But 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.

16 ل ِأنَّ كُلَّ مَنْ يَفعَلُ هَذِهِ الأُمُورَ وَيَغِشُّ بِمَعايِيرَ وَمَكايِيلَ مَغْشُوشَةٍ، مَمْقُوتٌ مِنَ إلَهِكُمْ. عَمالِيق

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

17 « اذْكُرُوا ما عَمِلَهُ شَعبُ عَمالِيقَ بِكُمْ فِي رِحلَتِكُمْ عِنْدَ خُرُوجِكُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ،

Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you had come forth from Egypt,

18 ك َيفَ أتَوْا عَلَيكُمْ فَجأةً فِي الطَّرِيقِ، وَقَضَوْا عَلَى كُلِّ المُتَأخِّرِينَ فِي الخَلفِ؟ فَقَدْ كُنتُمْ ضُعَفاءَ وَمُنهَكِينَ، وَهُمْ لَمْ يَخافُوا اللهَ.

How 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.

19 ف َحِينَ يُرِيحُكُمْ إلَهُكُمْ مِنْ كُلِّ أعدائِكُمْ مِنْ كُلِّ الجِهاتِ فِي الأرْضِ الَّتِي يُعطِيها إلَهُكُمْ لَكُمْ لِتمتَلِكُوها، امحُوا شَعبَ عَمالِيقَ مِنَ الأرْضِ. لا تَنسَوا ذَلِكَ!

Therefore 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.