The Bible

Deuteronomy Chapter 25

¹If there is a controversy between people, and they approach justice and a judgement [is made], then [you must] justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. ²If the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, the judge is to get him to lie down and be beaten before his face, as many [lashes] in proportion to his wickedness. ³[He may sentence him no more than] forty lashes. [If he were to exceed this and beat him] more with many lashes, then your brother would be degraded in your sight.

⁴Don't muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].

⁵If brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead one is not [to be married] outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother is to go in to her, and have her [as his] wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. ⁶The firstborn son that she bears will succeed in the name of his dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out from Israel.

⁷If the man doesn't want to have his brother's wife, then his brother's wife will go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up for his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me." ⁸Then the elders of his city are to call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, "I don't want to take her," ⁹then his brother's wife is to come to him in the presence of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot, and spit in his face. She'll answer and say, "That's what will be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house." ¹⁰[From then on] his name will be called in Israel, 'The house of him who had his sandal removed'.

¹¹When men struggle against each other, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts, ¹²then cut off her hand. Your eye is to have no pity.

¹³Don't have in your bag [two sets of] weights, one heavy and one light. ¹⁴Don't have in your house [two sets of] measures, one large and one small. ¹⁵Have a full and just weight, and a full and just measure, so that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you. ¹⁶For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

¹⁷Remember what Amalek did to you on the journey as you came from Egypt, ¹⁸how he met you on the journey, and struck the tail of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn't fear God. ¹⁹So when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, wipe the memory of Amalek from under the sky. Don't forget [to do it].