Deuteronomy 25

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 “If there is a case between persons, and they apply to the judges, they shall give the palm of justice to the one whom they perceive to be just, and they shall condemn of impiety the one who is impious.	1 "If there is a dispute between men, and they come into court, and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
2 But if they see that the one who has sinned is worthy of stripes, they shall prostrate him and cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin, so shall the measure of the stripes be.	2 then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.
3 Even so, these shall not exceed the number of forty. Otherwise, your brother may depart, having been wounded shamefully before your eyes.	3 Forty stripes may be given him, but not more; lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.
4 You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out your crops in the field.	4 "You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.
5 When brothers are living together, and one of them dies without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry another. Instead, his brother shall take her, and he shall raise up offspring for his brother.	5 "If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside the family to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
6 And the first son from her, he shall call by his brother’s name, so that his name will not be abolished from Israel.	6 And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
7 But if he is not willing to take his brother’s wife, who by law must go to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and she shall call upon those greater by birth, and she shall say: ‘The brother of my husband is not willing to raise up his brother’s name in Israel; nor will he join with me.’	7 And 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 perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
8 And immediately, they shall summon him to be sent, and they shall question him. If he responds, ‘I am not willing to accept her as a wife,’	8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he persists, saying, 'I do not wish to take her,'
9 then the woman shall approach him in the sight of the elders, and she shall remove his shoe from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall say: ‘So shall it be done to the man who was not willing to build up his brother’s house.’	9 then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, 'So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'
10 And his name shall be called in Israel: The House of the Unshod.	10 And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, The house of him that had his sandal pulled off.
11 If two men have a conflict between themselves, and one begins to do violence to the other, and if the other’s wife, wanting to rescue her husband from the hand of the stronger one, extends her hand and grasps him by his private parts,	11 "When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,
12 then you shall cut off her hand. Neither shall you weep over her with any mercy.	12 then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity.
13 You shall not have differing weights, greater and lesser, in your bag.	13 "You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
14 Neither shall there be in your house a greater and a lesser measure.	14 You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.
15 You shall have a just and a true weight, and your measure shall be equal and true, so that you may live for a long time upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.	15 A full and just weight you shall have, a full and just measure you shall have; that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
16 For the Lord your God abominates him who does these things, and he loathes all injustice.	16 For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
17 Remember what Amalek did to you, along the way, when you were departing from Egypt:	17 "Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt,
18 how he met you and cut down the stragglers of the troops, who were sitting down, exhausted, when you were consumed by hunger and hardship, and how he did not fear God.	18 how he attacked you on the way, when you were faint and weary, and cut off at your rear all who lagged behind you; and he did not fear God.
19 Therefore, when the Lord your God will give you rest, and you will have subdued all the surrounding nations, in the land which he has promised to you, you shall delete his name from under heaven. Take care not to forget this.”	19 Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.