Deuteronomy 25

¹ In case there should come to be a contention between men, and they come close for judgment, and they judge them, then they will justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. ² And it will come to be: should the wicked be a son of smiting, then the judge will cause him to fall down and have him smitten in his presence with the number of lashes sufficient for his wickedness. ³ Up to forty lashes may he smite him; he shall not add more, lest, if he should add to his smiting many smitings over these, your brother be dishonored in your eyes. ⁴ You shall not muzzle a bull when it threshes. ⁵ In case brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and he has no son, the wife of the dead one shall not come to the outside, to an alien man. Her brother-in-law shall come to her, and he will take her to himself as his wife and perform the levirate for her. ⁶ Then it will come to be: the firstborn whom she bears shall carry on the name of his father's dead brother so that his name may not be wiped out from Israel. ⁷ But should the man not be inclined to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law will go up to the elders at the gate and say: My brother-in-law refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the levirate for me. ⁸ Then the elders of his city will call to him and speak to him. But if he persists and says: I am not inclined to take her, ⁹ then his sister-in-law will come close to him before the eyes of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face and answer and say: Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house. ¹⁰ And his name will be called in Israel, House of the Pulled-off Sandal. ¹¹ In case two men should strive together, a man and his brother, and the wife of one comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one smiting him, and she puts forth her hand and holds fast onto his genitals, ¹² then you will cut away her palm. Your eye shall not commiserate over her. ¹³ You shall not come to have in your purse a stone and another stone, a large and a small. ¹⁴ You shall not come to have in your house an ephah and another ephah, a large and a small. ¹⁵ You shall come to have a standard weight equitable and just; you shall come to have an ephah equitable and just, that your days may be prolonged on the ground that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you. ¹⁶ For anyone doing these things, anyone doing iniquity, is an abhorrence to Yahweh your Elohim. ¹⁷ You are to remember what Amalek did to you along the main road when you came forth from Egypt, ¹⁸ that he met you on the road and curtailed from you all the stragglers behind you when you were faint and weary; and he was not fearful of Elohim. ¹⁹ It will come to be when Yahweh your Elohim gives rest to you from all your enemies around in the land that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to you as an allotment to tenant it, you shall wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens. You shall not forget.