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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.
02 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.
03 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.
04 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth
out the corn.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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;
09 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.
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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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