1 “ If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may 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, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows.

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 fault, by a certain number.

3 F orty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight.

Forty 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 seem vile unto thee.

4 “ You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. Marriage Duty of the Surviving Brother

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

5 “ If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry 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 an husband’s brother unto her.

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

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

7 B ut 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 raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’

And if the man like not 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 refuseth to raise up unto his brother a 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 to him. But if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to take her,’

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

9 t hen his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will 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 shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house.

10 A nd his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’ Miscellaneous Laws

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

11 “ If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals,

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for 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; your eye shall not pity her.

then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

13 “ You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers 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 thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

15 Y ou shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

But 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 giveth thee.

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

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

17 “ Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt,

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

18 h ow he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.

how 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 feared not God.

19 T herefore it shall be, when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.

Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord 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 it.