1 “ADeut 17:8-13; 19:17If there is a dispute between men and they go to 1Lit the judgmentcourt, and 2Lit they judge themthe judges decide their case, BDeut 1:16, 17and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, 2 then it shall be if the wicked man 1Lit is a son of beatingAProv 19:29; Luke 12:48deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his 2Or wickednessguilt. 3  “A2 Cor 11:24He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not BJob 18:3degraded in your eyes.

4 “AProv 12:10; 1 Cor 9:9; 1 Tim 5:18You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

5 “When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. AMatt 22:24; Mark 12:19; Luke 20:28Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6  “It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall 1Lit stand onassume the name of his dead brother, so that ARuth 4:5, 10his name will not be blotted out from Israel. 7  “ARuth 4:5, 6But 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 establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ 8  “Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’ 9 ARuth 4:7, 8then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and BNum 12:14spit in his face; and she shall 1Lit answer and saydeclare, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’ 10  “In Israel his name shall be called, ‘The house of him whose sandal is removed.’

11 “If two men, a man and his 1Lit brothercountryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, 12 then you shall cut off her 1Lit palmhand; 2Lit your eyeADeut 7:2; 19:13you shall not show pity.

13 “ALev 19:35-37; Prov 11:1; 20:23; Ezek 45:10; Mic 6:11You shall not have in your bag 1Lit a stone and a stonediffering weights, a large and a small. 14  “You shall not have in your house 1Lit an ephah and an ephahdiffering measures, a large and a small. 15  “You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just 1Lit ephahmeasure, AEx 20:12that your days may be prolonged in the 2Lit groundland which the Loʀᴅ your God gives you. 16  “For AProv 11:1everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Loʀᴅ your God.

17 “AEx 17:8-16Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt, 18 how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he APs 36:1; Rom 3:18did not 1Or reverencefear God. 19  “Therefore it shall come about when the Loʀᴅ your God has given you ADeut 12:9rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the Loʀᴅ your God gives you as an inheritance to 1Lit possess itpossess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.