Deuteronomy Chapter 25
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Deuteronomy
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Deuteronomy Chapter 25

Laws of Human Relations
1   If there is 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 more  than  these  with  many stripes, then your brother should seem degraded unto you.
4   You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.
5   If brethren dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry outside unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as  wife,  and  perform  the  duty of a husband's brother unto her.
6   And it shall be, that the firstborn that she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
7   And if the man desires 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 stands to it, and says, I desire 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 that 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 that smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by his private parts:
12   Then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity her.
13   You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
14   You shall not have in your house differing 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 the LORD your God gives you.
16   For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously,   are   an   abomination   unto   the LORD your God.

Blot Out Amalek
17   Remember what Amalek did unto you by the way, when you came forth out of Egypt;
18   How he met you by the way, and attacked those  behind  you,  even  all  that  were  feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God.
19   Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which the LORD your God 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.