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Deuteronomy 25

Deuteronomy 25

Deuteronomy 25:1 ^
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
Deuteronomy 25:1 ^
If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.
Deuteronomy 25:2 ^
and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
Deuteronomy 25:2 ^
And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.
Deuteronomy 25:3 ^
Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Deuteronomy 25:3 ^
He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.
Deuteronomy 25:4 ^
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the grain].
Deuteronomy 25:4 ^
Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
Deuteronomy 25:5 ^
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto 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.
Deuteronomy 25:5 ^
If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.
Deuteronomy 25:6 ^
And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.
Deuteronomy 25:6 ^
Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.
Deuteronomy 25:7 ^
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother unto me.
Deuteronomy 25:7 ^
But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.
Deuteronomy 25:8 ^
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;
Deuteronomy 25:8 ^
Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;
Deuteronomy 25:9 ^
then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.
Deuteronomy 25:9 ^
Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.
Deuteronomy 25:10 ^
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
Deuteronomy 25:10 ^
And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.
Deuteronomy 25:11 ^
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;
Deuteronomy 25:11 ^
If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;
Deuteronomy 25:12 ^
then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.
Deuteronomy 25:12 ^
Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.
Deuteronomy 25:13 ^
Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy 25:13 ^
Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
Deuteronomy 25:14 ^
Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy 25:14 ^
Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
Deuteronomy 25:15 ^
A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Deuteronomy 25:15 ^
But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 25:16 ^
For all that do such things, [even] all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 25:16 ^
For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 25:17 ^
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 25:17 ^
Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;
Deuteronomy 25:18 ^
how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
Deuteronomy 25:18 ^
How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.
Deuteronomy 25:19 ^
Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.
Deuteronomy 25:19 ^
So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.
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