Bible, King James Version
Deuteronomy
Deut.25
[1] If there be a controversy between men, and they come
unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall
justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
[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 fault, by a certain
number.
[3] Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest,
if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes,
then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
[4] Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the
corn.
[5] If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and
have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry 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 an husband's brother
unto her.
[6] And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth
shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his
name be not put out of Israel.
[7] And if the man like not to take his brother's wife,
then let his brother's wife 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 my
husband's brother.
[8] Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak
unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take
her;
[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 shall answer and say, So shall it be done
unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
[10] And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of
him that hath his shoe loosed.
[11] When men strive together one with another, and the
wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of
the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and
taketh him by the secrets:
[12] Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not
pity her.
[13] Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a
great and a small.
[14] Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a
great and a small.
[15] But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a
perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be
lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
[16] For all that do such things, and all that do
unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
[17] Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when
ye were come forth out of Egypt;
[18] How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of
thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint
and weary; and he feared not God.
[19] Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath
given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land
which the LORD 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 it.
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