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Deuteronomy 25

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Justice With Limits

Chapter 25.

If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty, then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes his offense deserves. He may give him forty lashes, but no more, so that if he continued to beat him with many more lashes than these, your brother would be degraded before you.

You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.

Levirate Marriage

If brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man must not be married to an outsider. Her husband's brother shall take her as his wife, sleep with her, and fulfill his duty as her brother-in-law. And the first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out of Israel.

But if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel; he will not fulfill his duty as my brother-in-law." Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, "I do not wish to take her," then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, and spit in his face. And she shall declare, "So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house." And his family shall be called in Israel "The house of him whose sandal was pulled off."

A Woman's Desperate Act

If two men fight with one another, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the man striking him, and reaches out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Show no pity.

Honest Weights, Honest Measures

You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small. You shall have a full and honest weight, and a full and honest measure, so that your days may be long in the land your Father is giving you. For everyone who does such things, everyone who acts dishonestly, is detestable to your Father.

Remember Amalek

Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, how he met you on the way and struck down all the stragglers at your rear, when you were faint and weary; and he had no fear of our Father. Therefore, when your Father gives you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land your Father is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.

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