1 ¶ If there is a controversy between persons and they come unto judgment and they are judged, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

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 A nd it shall be if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten in his presence, according to his fault, by a certain number.

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 F orty 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 be despised before thee.

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 T hou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

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

5 ¶ When brethren dwell together and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside unto a stranger; her husband’s brother shall go in unto her and take her to him to wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her.

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 A nd it shall be that the firstborn which she bears shall be raised up in the name of his brother who is dead that his name be not blotted out of Israel.

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

7 A nd if the man does not desire 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 refuses to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.

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 T hen the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him, and if he stands and says, I desire not to take her;

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 t hen 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.

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 A nd his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that is barefoot.

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

11 W hen men strive together one with another and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him and puts forth her hand and takes him by his secret parts;

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 t hen thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not pity her.

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

13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag different weights, a great and a small.

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

14 T hou shalt not have in thy house different measures, a great and a small.

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

15 B ut 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 gives thee.

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 F or all that do such things and all that do unrighteously are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

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

17 R emember what Amalek did unto thee by the way when ye were come forth out of Egypt,

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

18 h ow 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 did not fear God.

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 T herefore it shall be when the LORD thy God has given thee rest from all thine enemies round about in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

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.