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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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4 | Thou shalt not muzzle the
ox when he treadeth out the corn. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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; |
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| 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. |
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10 | And his name shall be called in
Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. |
| 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: |
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12 | Then thou shalt cut off
her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. |
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13 | Thou shalt not have in thy
bag divers weights, a great and a small. |
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14 | Thou shalt not have in
thine house divers measures, a great and a small. |
| 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. |
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For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously,
are an abomination unto the LORD thy God. |
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17 | Remember what Amalek did
unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; |
| 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. |
| 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. |
