Deuteronomy 25:7-19 ▼

7 And if the man does not delight to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife has gone up to the gate, to the elderly, and said, My husband’s brother is refusing to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he has not been willing to perform the duty of my husband’s brother;

8 and [the] elderly of his city have called for him, and spoken to him, and he has stood and said, I have no desire to take her.

9 Then his brother’s wife has drawn near to him before the eyes of the elderly, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who does not build up the house of his brother;

10 and his name has been called in Israel, The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.

11 When men strive together with one another, and the wife of one has drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his striker, and has put forth her hand, and laid hold on his private parts,

12 then you have cut off her hand; your eye does not spare.

13 You do not have [both] a great stone and a small stone in your bag.

14 You do not have a great ephah and a small ephah in your house.

15 You have a complete and just stone, [and] you have a complete and just ephah, so that they prolong your days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you;

16 for anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH.

17 Remember that which Amalek has done to you in the way in your going out from Egypt,

18 that he has met you in the way, and strikes among you all those feeble behind you (when you [were] weary and fatigued), and is not fearing God.

19 And it has been, in your God YHWH giving rest to you from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you [for] an inheritance to possess it, you blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens—you do not forget.”