Deuteronomy 25

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.

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Deuteronomy 25:2

If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

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Deuteronomy 25:3

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

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Deuteronomy 25:4

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

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shalt not In Judea , as well as in Egypt , Greece , and Italy , they made use of beeves to tread out the corn; and the same mode of threshing still obtains in Arabia , Barbary , and other eastern countries , to the present day. The sheaves lie open and expanded on the threshing floors , and the cattle continually move round them , and thus tread out the grain. The natives of Aleppo still religiously observe the ancient humane practice , inculcated by this law , of permitting the oxen to remain unmuzzled when treading out the corn.

Deuteronomy 25:5

When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

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Deuteronomy 25:6

The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

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Deuteronomy 25:7

But if the man does not want to marry his brother's widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me."

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Deuteronomy 25:8

Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, "I do not want to marry her,"

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Deuteronomy 25:9

his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, "This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother's line."

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Deuteronomy 25:11

If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

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Deuteronomy 25:12

you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

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Deuteronomy 25:13

You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

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divers weights Heb. a stone and a stone , Aivenwaaiven; because weights were anciently made of stone. Hence the expression , a stone weight , which is still in use , though the matter of which it is made be lead or iron , and the name itself shews us that a stone of a certain weight was formerly used.

Deuteronomy 25:14

You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.

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Deuteronomy 25:15

You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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Deuteronomy 25:16

For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

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Deuteronomy 25:17

Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,

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Deuteronomy 25:18

how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

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Deuteronomy 25:19

When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

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