﻿Deuteronomy.
Chapter 25.
If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, the judges shall judge them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty. 
If the guilty man deserves a beating, the judge shall make him lie down and have him beaten in his presence, with a number of blows according to his guilt. 
He may give him forty blows, but no more, lest he go beyond these and beat him with many blows, and your brother be degraded in your eyes. 
You shall not muzzle an ox while it threshes. 
If brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not marry outside the family, to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 
The firstborn she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel. 
But if the man does not desire 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 raise up a name for his brother in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ 
The elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. If he stands and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’ 
then his brother’s wife shall approach him in the sight of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall declare, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house.’ 
His name in Israel shall be called, ‘The house of the man whose sandal was removed.’ 
If men fight with one another, and the wife of one approaches to deliver her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and seizes his genitals, 
then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall not pity. 
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large one and a small one. 
You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large one and a small one. 
You shall have a full and just weight, and you shall have a full and just measure, so that your days may be prolonged on the land the LORD your God is giving you. 
For everyone who does these things, everyone who does injustice, is an abomination to the LORD your God. 
Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you came out of Egypt, 
how he met you on the way and attacked all the weak stragglers at your rear while you were faint and weary. He did not fear God. 
When the LORD your God gives you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget. 
