1“If there is a controversy between men, and they come to court for judgment, then the judges shall decide which is right, and which is wrong. 2And if the wrong man deserves to be beaten, then the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten in the presence of the judge, with the number of lashes being in accordance with his offense. 3A maximum of forty stripes may he give him; so that your fellow Israelite does not seem degraded to onlookers. 4“You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain. 5“If brothers live together, and one of them dies with no children, the widow of the dead shall not marry a stranger outside the family; her husband's brother shall take her to him as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. 6And the first-born whom she bears to him shall succeed in the name of his dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel. 7And if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.’ 8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not desire to take her’, 9Then his brother's widow shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall say, ‘So shall it be done to any man that will not provide children for his brother's house.’ 10And he shall be known in Israel, “The house (family) of him that has his shoe loosed.” 11“When two men are fighting, and the wife come near to rescue her husband, and grabs the genitals of the other man, 12Then you must cut off her hand; you shall show her no pity. 13“You must not keep in your bag different weights, one heavy and one light. 14Nor must you have in your house different measures, one large and one small. 15But you shall have accurate, honest, and just weights and measures, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 16For the LORD detests all that do such wicked things; they are an abomination to the LORD your God. 17“Remember what Amalek (the Amalekites) did to you as you came on your way out of Egypt; 18How, when you were weary and exhausted, he attacked those that were in rear - the weak, faint, and feeble; the Amalekites had no fear of God. 19Therefore, when the LORD your God has given you rest from the enemies all around you, in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget it. Reader-Friendly Bible: Purple Letter Edition © 2024 by Jim Musser. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. Bible Hub |