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Deuteronomy
Chapter 25
1
If there be a controversy between men,
and
they come unto judgment,
that
the judges may judge them;
then
they shall justify the righteous,
and
condemn the wicked.
2
And it shall be,
if
the wicked man be worthy to be beaten,
that
the judge shall cause him to lie down,
and
to be beaten before his face,
according
to his fault,
by
a certain number.
3
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.
Lest,
if he should exceed,
and
beat him above these with many stripes,
then
your brother should seem vile unto you.
4
You shall not muzzle the ox
when
he treads out the corn.
{Note:
This is quoted in the New Testament. When Paul uses the analogy to
pastors who teach faithfully the Word of God.}
5
If brethren dwell together,
and
one of them die,
and
have no child,
the
wife of the dead
shall
not marry without unto a stranger.
Her
husband's brother shall go in unto her,
and
take her to him to wife,
and
perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
{clearly means to impregnate her}
6
And it shall be,
that
the firstborn which she bears
shall
succeed in the name of his brother which is dead,
that
his name be not put out of Israel.
7
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife,
then
let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders,
and
say, My husband's brother
refuses
to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel,
he
will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
8
Then the elders of his city shall call him,
and
speak unto him.
And
if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; 9
then
shall his brother's wife come unto him
in
the presence of the elders,
and
loose his shoe from off his foot,
and
spit in his face, and shall answer and say,
So
shall it be done unto that man
that
will not build up his brother's house.
10
And his name shall be called in Israel,
The
house of him who has his shoe loosed.
11
When men strive together one with another,
and
the wife of the one draws near
for
to deliver her husband
out
of the hand of him who smites him,
and
put forth her hand,
and
takes him by the secrets.
12
Then you shall cut off her hand,
your
eye shall not pity her.
13
You shall not have in your bag divers weights,
a
great and a small.
14
You shall not have in your house divers measures,
a
great and a small.
15
But you shall have a perfect and just weight,
a
perfect and just measure shall you have . . .
that
your days may be lengthened
in
the land which Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead
gives
you.
16
For all that do such things,
and
all that do unrighteously,
are
an abomination
unto
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead.
17
Remember what Amalek
did
unto you by the way,
when
you were come forth out of Egypt.
18
How he met you by the way,
and
smote the hindmost of you,
even
all that were feeble behind you,
when
you were faint and weary;
and
he feared not Elohiym/Godhead.
19
Therefore it shall be,
when
Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead
has
given you rest from all your enemies round about,
in
the land which Jehovah/God your Elohiym/Godhead
gives
you for an inheritance to possess it,
that
you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek
from
under heaven;
you
shall not forget it.
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