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đź“šIf there is a controversy between men, and they come for judgment, the judges are to decide between them, and they are to justify the righteous and condemn the guilty. 2 đź“šThen it shall be like this: if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down, and be beaten in his presence, with a certain number of lashes in accordance with his fault. 3 đź“šHe may give him forty lashes, but must not exceed that. If he exceeds that and beats him with more lashes than these, then your brother might seem degraded to you. 4 đź“šYou must not muzzle the ox when he tramples out the grain.
Regarding remarriage of widows
5 📚If brothers live together, and one of them dies and has no child, the wife of the dead one must not go out to marry 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. 6 📚And it shall come about that the firstborn whom she bears shall carry the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
7 📚And if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go out to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel. He will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother”. 8 📚Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stands firm and says, “I do not want to marry her”, 9 📚then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to that man who will not build up his brother’s house”. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who has a removed sandal”.
11 đź“šWhen men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one of them comes near to deliver her husband out of the hand of the one hitting him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, 12 đź“šthen you must cut off her hand; your eye must not pity her.
13 đź“šYou must not have two different weights in your bag, a large and a small. 14 You must not have two different measures in your house, a large and a small. 15 đź“šBut you must have a perfect and just weight; you must have a perfect and just measure, so that you may live a long time in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 16 đź“šFor everyone who does such things, and everyone who acts unjustly, is an abomination to the LORD your God.
17 đź“šRemember what Amalek did to you along the way, when you had come out of Egypt; 18 đź“šhow he met you along the way and attacked those of you lagging behind in the rear, all who were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.
19 đź“šTherefore it must be like this when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess it: blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!