Deuteronomy 25

NEW JERUSALEM	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 'If people fal out, they must go to court for judgement; the judges must declare the one who is right tobe in the right, the one who is wrong to be in the wrong.	1 "When men have a dispute and bring it to court, and a decision is handed down to them acquitting the innocent party and condemning the guilty party,
2 If the one who is in the wrong deserves a flogging, the judge must have him laid on the ground andflogged in his presence, the number of strokes proportionate to his offence.	2 if the latter deserves stripes, the judge shall have him lie down and in his presence receive the number of stripes his guilt deserves.
3 He may impose forty strokes but no more; otherwise, by the infliction of more, serious injury may becaused and your brother be humiliated before you.	3 Forty stripes may be given him, but no more; lest, if he were beaten with more stripes than these, your kinsman should be looked upon as disgraced because of the severity of the beating.
4 'You must not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the corn.	4 "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out grain.
5 'If brothers live together and one of them dies childless, the dead man's wife may not marry a strangeroutside the family. Her husband's brother must come to her and, exercising his duty as brother, make her hiswife,	5 "When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the deceased shall not marry anyone outside the family; but her husband's brother shall go to her and perform the duty of a brother-in-law by marrying her.
6 and the first son she bears must assume the dead brother's name; by this means his name wil not beobliterated from Israel.	6 The first-born son she bears shall continue the line of the deceased brother, that his name may not be blotted out from Israel.
7 But if the man declines to take his brother's wife, she must go to the elders at the gate and say, "Ihave no brother-in-law willing to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he declines to exercise his duty asbrother in my favour."	7 If, however, a man does not care to marry his brother's wife, she shall go up to the elders at the gate and declare, 'My brother-in-law does not intend to perform his duty toward me and refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel.'
8 The elders of the town must summon the man and talk to him. If, on appearing before them, he says,"I refuse to take her,"	8 Thereupon the elders of his city shall summon him and admonish him. If he persists in saying, 'I am not willing to marry her,'
9 then the woman to whom he owes duty as brother must go up to him in the presence of the elders,take the sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and pronounce the fol owing words, "This is what is done to the manwho refuses to restore his brother's house,"	9 his sister-in-law, in the presence of the elders, shall go up to him and strip his sandal from his foot and spit in his face, saying publicly, 'This is how one should be treated who will not build up his brother's family!'
10 and his family must henceforth be known in Israel as House of the Unshod.	10 And his lineage shall be spoken of in Israel as 'the family of the man stripped of his sandal.'
11 'If, when two men are fighting, the wife of one intervenes to protect her husband from the other'sblows by reaching out and seizing the other by his private parts,	11 "When two men are fighting and the wife of one intervenes to save her husband from the blows of his opponent, if she stretches out her hand and seizes the latter by his private parts,
12 you must cut off her hand and show no pity.	12 you shall chop off her hand without pity.
13 'You must not keep two different weights in your bag, one heavy, one light.	13 "You shall not keep two differing weights in your bag, one large and the other small;
14 You must not keep two different measures in your house, one large, one smal .	14 nor shall you keep two different measures in your house, one large and the other small.
15 You must keep one weight, ful and accurate, so that you may have long life in the country given youby Yahweh your God.	15 But use a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that you may have a long life on the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you.
16 For anyone who does things of this kind and acts dishonestly is detestable to Yahweh your God.	16 Everyone who is dishonest in any of these matters is an abomination to the LORD, your God.
17 'Remember how Amalek treated you when you were on your way out of Egypt.	17 "Bear in mind what Amalek did to you on the journey after you left Egypt,
18 He met you on your way and, after you had gone by, he fel on you from the rear and cut off thestragglers; when you were faint and weary, he had no fear of God.	18 how without fear of any god he harassed you along the way, weak and weary as you were, and cut off at the rear all those who lagged behind.
19 When Yahweh your God has granted you peace from al the enemies surrounding you, in the countrygiven you by Yahweh your God to own as your heritage, you must blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven.Do not forget.'	19 Therefore, when the LORD, your God, gives you rest from all your enemies round about in the land which he is giving you to occupy as your heritage, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget!