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Chapter 25
1 If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.
2 And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:
3 Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest your brother depart shamefully torn before your eyes.
4 You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out your corn on the floor.
5 When brethren dwell together, and one of them dies without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:
6 And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.
7 But if he will not take his brother's wife, who by law belongs to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband's brother refuses to raise up his brother's name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.
8 And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:
9 The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother's house:
10 And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of the unshod.
11 If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against the other, and the other's wife willing to deliver her husband out of the hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the secrets,
12 You shall cut off her hand, neither shall you be moved with any pity in her regard.
13 You shall not have divers weights in your bag, a greater and a less:
14 Neither shall there be in your house a greater bushel and a less.
15 You shall have a just and a true weight, and your bushel shall be equal and true: that you may live a long time upon the land which the Lord your God shall give you.
16 For the Lord your God abhors him that does these things, and he hates all injustice.
17 Remember what Amalec did to you in the way when you came out of Egypt:
18 How he met you: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down, being weary, when you were spent with hunger and labour, and he feared not God.
19 Therefore when the Lord your God shall give you rest, and shall have subdued all the nations round about in the land which he has promised you: you shall blot out his name from under heaven. See you forget it not.