CHAPTER 25
If
there is
a dispute
between
men,
they are to go
to
court
to be judged,
so that the innocent
may be acquitted
and the guilty
condemned.
If
the guilty man
deserves to be beaten,
the judge
shall have him lie down
and be flogged
in his presence
with the number
of lashes
his crime deserves.
He may receive
no
more
than forty lashes,
lest
your brother
be beaten
any more
than
that
and be degraded
in your sight.
When
brothers
dwell
together
and one
of them
dies
without
a son,
the widow
must not
marry
outside the family.
Her husband’s brother
is to take her
as his
wife
and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law
The first son
she bears
will carry
on
the name
of the dead
brother,
so that his name
will not
be blotted out
from Israel.
But if
the man
does not
want
to marry
his brother’s widow,
she
is to go
to
the elders
at the city gate
and say,
“My husband’s brother
refuses
to preserve
his brother’s
name
in Israel.
He is not
willing
to perform the duty of a brother-in-law
Then the elders
of his city
shall summon
him
and speak
with him.
If he persists
and says,
“I do not
want
to marry her,”
his brother’s widow
shall go up
to him
in the presence
of the elders,
remove
his sandal,
spit
in his face,
and declare,
“This is what
is done
to the man
who
will not
maintain
his brother’s
line.”
If
two men
are fighting,
and the wife
of one
steps in
to rescue
her husband
from
the one striking him,
and she reaches out
her hand
and grabs
his genitals,
You must maintain
accurate
and honest
weights
and
measures,
so that
you may live long
in
the land
the LORD
your God
is giving you.
For
everyone
who behaves
dishonestly
in regard to these things
is detestable
to the LORD
your God.
how
they met you
on your journey
when you
were tired
and weary,
and they attacked
all
your stragglers;
they had no
fear
of God.
When the LORD
your God
gives you rest
from
the enemies
all around you
in the land
He
is giving
you to possess
as an inheritance,
you are to blot out
the memory
of Amalek
from under
heaven.
Do not
forget!