1“If there is a dispute between men, and they come to 25:1 Lit. the judgmentcourt, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

2then 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.

3Forty 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.

4“You shall not muzzle an ox while it 25:4 threshestreads out the grain.

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.

6And 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.

7But 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.’

8Then 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,’

9then 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.’

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

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,

12then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.

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

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

15You 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.

16For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are 25:16 detestablean abomination to the Lord your God.

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

18how 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.

19Therefore 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.