Deuteronomy 25
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Deut 25:1
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"If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,
Deut 25:2
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then it shall be if the wicked man deserves 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 guilt.
Deut 25:3
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~"He 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 degraded in your eyes.
Deut 25:4
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"You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.
Deut 25:5
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"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. Her 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.
Deut 25:6
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~"It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
Deut 25:7
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~"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 establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
Deut 25:8
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~"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,'
Deut 25:9
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then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, `Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'
Deut 25:10
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~"In Israel his name shall be called, `The house of him whose sandal is removed.'
Deut 25:11
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"If {two} men, a man and his countryman, 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,
Deut 25:12
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then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.
Deut 25:13
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"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
Deut 25:14
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~"You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
Deut 25:15
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~"You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Deut 25:16
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~"For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the LORD your God.
Deut 25:17
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"Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,
Deut 25:18
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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 did not (Or {reverence}) fear God.
Deut 25:19
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~"Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.
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