Dual Panel1When two go to law and present themselves for judgement, the judges are to try the case; they must acquit the innocent and condemn the guilty.
2If the guilty party is sentenced to be flogged, the judge is to have him lie down and be beaten in his presence; the number of lashes will correspond to the gravity of the offence.
3They may give him forty strokes, but not more; otherwise, if they go farther and exceed this number, your fellow-countryman will have been publicly degraded.
4You are not to muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
5When brothers live together and one of them dies without leaving a son, his widow is not to marry outside the family. Her husband's brother is to have intercourse with her; he should take her in marriage and do his duty by her as her husband's brother.
6The first son she bears will perpetuate the dead brother's name so that it may not be blotted out from Israel.
7But if the man is unwilling to take his brother's wife, she must go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not do his duty by me.”
8At this the elders of the town should summon him and reason with him. If he still stands his ground and says, “I refuse to take her,”
9his brother's widow must go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and declare: “Thus we requite the man who will not build up his brother's family.”
10His family will be known in Israel as the house of the unsandalled man.
11When two men are fighting and the wife of one of them intervenes to drag her husband clear of his opponent, if she puts out her hand and catches hold of the man by the genitals,
12you must cut off her hand and show her no mercy.
13You must not have unequal weights in your bag, one heavy, the other light.
14You must not have unequal measures in your house, one large, the other small.
15You must have true and correct weights and true and correct measures, so that you may enjoy long life in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.
16All who do such things, all who deal dishonestly, are abominable to the LORD your God.
17Bear in mind what the Amalekites did to you on your journey from Egypt,
18how they fell on you on the road when you were faint and weary and cut off those at the rear, all who were lagging behind exhausted: they showed no fear of God.
19When the LORD your God gives you peace from your enemies on every side, in the land which he is giving you to occupy as your holding, you must without fail blot out all memory of Amalek from under heaven.