25:1 And if there should be a dispute
between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and [the judges]
judge, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked:
25:2 then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of
stripes, thou shalt lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge
him before them according to his iniquity.
25:3 And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not
inflict more; for if thou shouldest scourge him [with] more stripes beyond
these stripes, thy brother will be disgraced before thee.
25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.
25:5 And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and
should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out [of the
family] to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and
shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.
25:6 And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be
named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of
Israel.
25:7 And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then
shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My
husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my
husband's brother has refused.
25:8 And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he
stand and say, I will not take her:
25:9 then his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall
loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall
answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his
brother's house in Israel.
25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has had
his shoe loosed.
25:11 And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the
wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of
him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her hand, and take hold of
his private parts;
25:12 thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare her.
25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a
small.
25:15 Thou shalt have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure,
that thou mayest live long upon the land which the Lord thy God gives thee
for an inheritance.
25:16 For every one that does this [is] an abomination to the Lord thy God,
even every one that does injustice.
25:17 Remember what things Amalec did to thee by the way, when thou wentest
forth out of the land of Egypt:
25:18 how he withstood thee in the way, and harassed thy rear, [even] those
that were weary behind thee, and thou didst hunger and wast weary; and he
did not fear God.
25:19 And it shall come to pass whenever the Lord thy God shall have given
thee rest from all thine enemies round about thee, in the land which the
Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalec
from under heaven, and shalt not forget [to do it]. |
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.
25:2 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.
25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should
exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should
seem vile unto thee.
25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
25:5 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.
25:6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in
the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of
Israel.
25:7 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 refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not
perform the duty of my husband's brother.
25:8 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;
25:9 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.
25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his
shoe loosed.
25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one
draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth
him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
25:12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
25:13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
25:14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a
small.
25:15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just
measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee.
25:16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
25:17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth
out of Egypt;
25:18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all
that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared
not God.
25:19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from
all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. |