25:1 Should controversy arise between people¹⁵ and they go to the court for judgment and the judges¹⁶ judge them, they shall exonerate¹⁷ the just but condemn¹⁸ the evil. 25:2 Then¹⁹ if the evil one be considered deserving of a beating,²⁰ the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence according to the extent of his wickedness, by number. 25:3 Forty blows he may administer²¹ but no more lest, having struck him with more than these, your brother might be viewed by you with contempt. 25:4 You must not muzzle your²² ox when it is treading grain.

25:5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry to an outside stranger; her brother-in-law must go to her, take her as wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.²³ 25:6 Then²⁴ the first born she bears will succeed in the name of the²⁵ dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel. 25:7 If the man does not want to marry his sister-in-law, then she²⁶ shall go to the elders at the gate and say, “My brother-in-law refuses to preserve²⁷ his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me.” 25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call out and speak to him. If he stands up and says, “I do not want to marry her,” 25:9 then his sister-in-law will approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face.²⁸ She will then respond, “Thus may it be done to any man who does not do the duty of a brother-in-law on behalf of his brother’s house.” 25:10 His family name will be recorded²⁹ in Israel as “the house of the de-sandaled one.” 25:11 Should men get into a hand-to-hand fight,³⁰ and the wife of one of them should get close in order to help her husband against his attacker, and she should reach out her hand and grab his genitals,³¹ 25:12 then you shall cut off her hand—do not pity her. 25:13 You must not have³² in your bag different stone weights, a large and a small. 25:14 You must not have in your house different ephahs,³³ a large and a small. 25:15 You must have an accurate³⁴ and correct³⁵ stone and an accurate and correct ephah, so that your life might be extended upon the land that the LORD your God is about to give you. 25:16 For anyone who does these things is detestable³⁶ to the LORD your God, anyone at all doing an injustice.

25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt, 25:18 how he met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and spent; and he was unafraid of God.³⁷ 25:19 When, therefore, the LORD your God has brought you rest from all your surrounding enemies in the land he³⁸ is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you must wipe the remembrance of Amalek from beneath the heavens—do not forget!³⁹