KJ3 Literal Translation
Deuteronomy 25
Stripes must not exceed forty. 4 The ox is not to be muzzled. 5 Of being with a brother's wife. 11 Of the immodest woman. 13 Of unjust weights.
1If there is a contention between men, and they come to judgment, and they judge them, and declare the one being righteous the righteous one, and declare the wicked one guilty;
2and it shall be, if the wicked one is a son of stripes, the judge shall cause him to fall down. And one shall strike him before his face, enough for his wickedness, by number.
3He may give him forty stripes; he shall not add more, lest, if he should exceed and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother would be dishonored before your eyes.
4You shall not muzzle an ox when he is treading out grain.
5If brothers live together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the one who died shall not go outside to a man, a stranger; her brother-in-law shall go in to her, and take her to himself for a wife, and shall perform the duty of the levirate;
6and it shall be, the first-born which she bears shall rise up for his dead brother's name, and his name shall not be wiped out of Israel.
7And 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 is refusing to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he has not been willing to perform the duty of my levirate.
8And the elders of his city shall call for him and shall speak to him. And he shall stand and say, I have no desire to take her.
9And his brother's wife shall draw near to him before the elders, and shall draw off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So it shall be done to the man who will not build up the house of his brother.
10And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him whose shoe was drawn off.
11When men fight with one another, and the wife of the one shall come near to deliver her husband from the hand of his striker, and shall put out her hand and lay hold on his genitals,
12then you shall cut off her palm; your eye shall not pity.
13You shall not have in your bag a stone and a stone weight, a great and a small.
14You shall not have in your house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.
15You shall have a perfect and just weight; you shall have a perfect and just ephah; so that they prolong your days in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you;
16for anyone doing these things is a disgusting thing to Jehovah your God, everyone doing injustice.
17Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;
18how he met you on the way and attacked your back, all the feeble ones in the rear, when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.
19And it shall be, when Jehovah your God gives you rest from all your enemies round about in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance to possess it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget.
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