Deuteronomy 25

¹When a dispute arises between men and they draw near to the court for judgment, and the judges judge them, they shall acquit the righteous and condemn the wicked.

²Then, if the guilty one is deserving of blows, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence, according to the measure of his wickedness, by number.

³Forty blows he may give him; he shall not add more, lest he add in striking him above these with a great blow, and your brother be degraded in your eyes.

⁴You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.

⁵When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not marry outside to a stranger; her brother-in-law shall go in to her, and take her to himself as his wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

⁶The firstborn whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his deceased brother, so that his name may not be blotted out from Israel.

⁷And if the man does not desire to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and shall say, 'My brother-in-law refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to act as brother-in-law to me.'

⁸Then the elders of his city shall call to him and speak to him; and he shall stand and say, 'I do not wish to take her.'

⁹then his sister-in-law shall come forward to him before the eyes of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face and declare, 'Thus is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'

¹⁰His name shall be called in Israel: "the house of him whose sandal was removed."

¹¹When men fight together, a man and his brother, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of his assailant, and she stretches out her hand and seizes him by his genitals,

¹²then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.

¹³You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights — a large and a small.

¹⁴You shall not have in your house two differing measures, a large and a small.

¹⁵A full and just weight you shall have; a full and just measure you shall have, so that your days may be prolonged in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

¹⁶For an abomination to the LORD your God is everyone who does these things, everyone who acts with injustice.

¹⁷Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you came out of Egypt:

¹⁸how he met you on the way and cut off your rear -- all who were lagging behind you, when you were faint and weary -- and he did not fear God.

¹⁹And it shall be, when the LORD your God gives you rest from all your enemies around you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens; do not forget.