Deuteronomy 25 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 “If there is a case between persons, and they apply to the judges, they shall give the palm of justice to the one whom they perceive to be just, and they shall condemn of impiety the one who is impious. “If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty, When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.
2 But if they see that the one who has sinned is worthy of stripes, they shall prostrate him and cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin, so shall the measure of the stripes be. then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense. If the guilty person deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make them lie down and have them flogged in his presence with the number of lashes the crime deserves,
3 Even so, these shall not exceed the number of forty. Otherwise, your brother may depart, having been wounded shamefully before your eyes. Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight. but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes. If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.
4 You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out your crops in the field. “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain. Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
5 When brothers are living together, and one of them dies without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry another. Instead, his brother shall take her, and he shall raise up offspring for his brother. “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
6 And the first son from her, he shall call by his brother’s name, so that his name will not be abolished from Israel. And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
7 But if he is not willing to take his brother’s wife, who by law must go to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and she shall call upon those greater by birth, and she shall say: ‘The brother of my husband is not willing to raise up his brother’s name in Israel; nor will he join with me.’ And if the man does not wish 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 perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”
8 And immediately, they shall summon him to be sent, and they shall question him. If he responds, ‘I am not willing to accept her as a wife,’ Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’ Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,”
9 then the woman shall approach him in the sight of the elders, and she shall remove his shoe from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall say: ‘So shall it be done to the man who was not willing to build up his brother’s house.’ then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’ his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”
10 And his name shall be called in Israel: The House of the Unshod. And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’ That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
11 If two men have a conflict between themselves, and one begins to do violence to the other, and if the other’s wife, wanting to rescue her husband from the hand of the stronger one, extends her hand and grasps him by his private parts, “When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts,
12 then you shall cut off her hand. Neither shall you weep over her with any mercy. then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity. you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
13 You shall not have differing weights, greater and lesser, in your bag. “You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light.
14 Neither shall there be in your house a greater and a lesser measure. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small.
15 You shall have a just and a true weight, and your measure shall be equal and true, so that you may live for a long time upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you. A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
16 For the Lord your God abominates him who does these things, and he loathes all injustice. For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God. For the LORD your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.
17 Remember what Amalek did to you, along the way, when you were departing from Egypt: “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt.
18 how he met you and cut down the stragglers of the troops, who were sitting down, exhausted, when you were consumed by hunger and hardship, and how he did not fear God. how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.
19 Therefore, when the Lord your God will give you rest, and you will have subdued all the surrounding nations, in the land which he has promised to you, you shall delete his name from under heaven. Take care not to forget this.” Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget. When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
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