Dual Panel1If there be a controversy <07379> between men <0582>_, and they come <05066> (8738) unto judgment <04941>_, that [the judges] may judge <08199> (8804) them; then they shall justify <06663> (8689) the righteous <06662>_, and condemn <07561> (8689) the wicked <07563>_.
2And it shall be, if the wicked man <07563> [be] worthy <01121> to be beaten <05221> (8687)_, that the judge <08199> (8802) shall cause him to lie down <05307> (8689)_, and to be beaten <05221> (8689) before his face <06440>_, according <01767> to his fault <07564>_, by a certain number <04557>_.
3Forty <0705> stripes <05221> (8686) he may give him, [and] not exceed <03254> (8686)_: lest, [if] he should exceed <03254> (8686)_, and beat <05221> (8687) him above these with many <07227> stripes <04347>_, then thy brother <0251> should seem vile <07034> (8738) <05869> unto thee.
4Thou shalt not muzzle <02629> (8799) the ox <07794> when he treadeth out <01778> (8800) [the corn]. {treadeth...: Heb. thresheth}
5If brethren <0251> dwell <03427> (8799) together <03162>_, and one <0259> of them die <04191> (8804)_, and have no child <01121>_, the wife <0802> of the dead <04191> (8801) shall not marry without <02351> unto a stranger <0376> <02114> (8801)_: her husband's brother <02993> shall go in <0935> (8799) unto her, and take <03947> (8804) her to him to wife <0802>_, and perform the duty of an husband's brother <02992> (8762) unto her. {her husband's...: or, her next kinsman}
6And it shall be, [that] the firstborn <01060> which she beareth <03205> (8799) shall succeed <06965> (8799) in the name <08034> of his brother <0251> [which is] dead <04191> (8801)_, that his name <08034> be not put out <04229> (8735) of Israel <03478>_.
7And if the man <0376> like <02654> (8799) not to take <03947> (8800) his brother's wife <02994>_, then let his brother's wife <02994> go up <05927> (8804) to the gate <08179> unto the elders <02205>_, and say <0559> (8804)_, My husband's brother <02993> refuseth <03985> (8765) to raise up <06965> (8687) unto his brother <0251> a name <08034> in Israel <03478>_, he will <014> (8804) not perform the duty of my husband's brother <02992> (8763)_. {brother's: or, next kinsman's}
8Then the elders <02205> of his city <05892> shall call <07121> (8804) him, and speak <01696> (8765) unto him: and [if] he stand <05975> (8804) [to it], and say <0559> (8804)_, I like <02654> (8804) not to take <03947> (8800) her;
9Then shall his brother's wife <02994> come <05066> (8738) unto him in the presence <05869> of the elders <02205>_, and loose <02502> (8804) his shoe <05275> from off his foot <07272>_, and spit <03417> (8804) in his face <06440>_, and shall answer <06030> (8804) and say <0559> (8804)_, So shall it be done <06213> (8735) unto that man <0376> that will not build up <01129> (8799) his brother's <0251> house <01004>_.
10And his name <08034> shall be called <07121> (8738) in Israel <03478>_, The house <01004> of him that hath his shoe <05275> loosed <02502> (8803)_.
11When men <0582> strive <05327> (8735) together <03162> one with another <0251> <0376>_, and the wife <0802> of the one <0259> draweth near <07126> (8804) for to deliver <05337> (8687) her husband <0376> out of the hand <03027> of him that smiteth <05221> (8688) him, and putteth forth <07971> (8804) her hand <03027>_, and taketh <02388> (8689) him by the secrets <04016>_:
12Then thou shalt cut off <07112> (8804) her hand <03709>_, thine eye <05869> shall not pity <02347> (8799) [her].
13Thou shalt not have in thy bag <03599> divers weights <068> <068>_, a great <01419> and a small <06996>_. {divers...: Heb. a stone and a stone}
14Thou shalt not have in thine house <01004> divers measures <0374> <0374>_, a great <01419> and a small <06996>_. {divers...: Heb. an ephah and an ephah}
15[But] thou shalt have a perfect <08003> and just <06664> weight <068>_, a perfect <08003> and just <06664> measure <0374> shalt thou have: that thy days <03117> may be lengthened <0748> (8686) in the land <0127> which the LORD <03068> thy God <0430> giveth <05414> (8802) thee.
16For all that do <06213> (8802) such things <0428>_, [and] all that do <06213> (8802) unrighteously <05766>_, [are] an abomination <08441> unto the LORD <03068> thy God <0430>_.
17Remember <02142> (8800) what Amalek <06002> did <06213> (8804) unto thee by the way <01870>_, when ye were come forth <03318> (8800) out of Egypt <04714>_;
18How he met <07136> (8804) thee by the way <01870>_, and smote the hindmost <02179> (8762) of thee, [even] all [that were] feeble <02826> (8737) behind <0310> thee, when thou [wast] faint <05889> and weary <03023>_; and he feared <03373> not God <0430>_.
19Therefore it shall be, when the LORD <03068> thy God <0430> hath given thee rest <05117> (8687) from all thine enemies <0341> (8802) round about <05439>_, in the land <0776> which the LORD <03068> thy God <0430> giveth <05414> (8802) thee [for] an inheritance <05159> to possess <03423> (8800) it, [that] thou shalt blot out <04229> (8799) the remembrance <02143> of Amalek <06002> from under heaven <08064>_; thou shalt not forget <07911> (8799) [it].