1If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judges (court) for judgment, then they shall justify the right, and condemn the wrong.
2And it shall be, if the wrong man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten in his presence, with the number of lashes being in accordance with his offense.
3A maximum of forty stripes may he give him; so that your brother (fellow Israelite) should seem degraded to onlookers.
4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
5If brethren dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside the family to 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.
6And it shall be, that the first-born whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
7And if the man desire not 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 to his brother a name 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; and if he stand to it, and say, “I desire not to take her”,
9Then shall his brother's wife come to 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”.
10And his name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him that has his shoe loosed”.
11When men strive one with another, and the wife of the one draws near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets,
12Then you must cut off her hand, you shall show her no pity.
13 You shall not have in your bag different weights, one heavy and one light.
14Nor shall you have in your house different measures, one large and one small.
15But you shall have accurate and just weights; honest and just measures shall you have, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
16For the LORD detests all that do such wicked things; they are an abomination unto the LORD your God.
17Remember what Amalek (the Amalekites) did to you as you came forth out of Egypt;
18How he met you by the way, and attacked those that were in rear - the weak, faint, weary and feeble behind you; they had no fear of God.
19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all the enemies around you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it. Easy Reader Bible: Purple Letter Edition © 2023 by Jim Musser. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. Bible Hub |
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