1 “ If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

2 t hen it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.

and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

3 H e may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.

Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

4 “ You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the grain.

5 “ When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without 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.

6 I t shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.

7 B ut if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother unto me.

8 T hen the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;

9 t hen his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

then 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 she shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.

10 I n Israel his name shall be called, ‘The house of him whose sandal is removed.’

And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

11 “ If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

12 t hen you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

13 “ You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

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

Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.

15 Y ou shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

16 F or everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God.

For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

17 “ Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt;

18 h ow he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

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

Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.