Deuteronomy 25

ki-yihyeh riv ben anashim veniggeshu el-hammishpat ushefatum vehitsdiqu et-hatsaddiq vehirshi'u et-harasha

When there is a dispute between two parties and they take it to court, and a decision is rendered declaring the one in the right and the other in the wrong—

vehayah im-bin hakkot harasha vehippilo hashofet vehikkahu lefanayw kede rishato bemispar

if the guilty one is to be flogged, the magistrate shall have them lie down and shall supervise the giving of lashes, by count, as warranted by the offense.

arba'im yakkennu lo yosif pen-yosif lehakkoto al-elleh makkah rabbah veniqlah akhikha le'enekha

They may be given up to forty lashes, but not more, lest being flogged further, to excess, your peer be degraded before your eyes.

lo-takhsom shor bedisho

You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.

ki-yeshevu akhim yakhdav umet akhad mehem uven en-lo lo-tihyeh eshet-hammet hakhutsah le'ish zar yevamah yavo aleha uleqakhah lo le'isha veyibbemah

When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and leaves no offspring, the wife of the deceased shall not be married to a stranger, outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall unite with her: he shall take her as his wife and perform the levir’s duty.

vehayah habbekhor asher teled yaqum al-shem akhiv hammet velo-yimmakheh shemo miyyisra'el

The first child that she bears shall be accounted to the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out in Israel.

ve'im-lo yakhpots ha'ish laqakhat et-yevimto ve'aletah yevimto hasharah el-hazzeqenim ve'amerah me'en yevami lehaqim le'akhiv shem beyisra'el lo avah yabbemi

But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, his brother’s widow shall appear before the elders in the gate and declare, “My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name in Israel for his brother; he will not perform the duty of a levir.”

veqare'u-lo ziqne-iro vedibberu elayw ve'amad ve'amar lo khafatsti leqakhtah

The elders of his town shall then summon him and talk to him. If he insists, saying, “I do not want to marry her,”

veniggeshah yevimto elayw le'ene hazzeqenim vekhaletsah na'alo me'al raglo veyareqah befanayw ve'anetah ve'amerah kakhah ye'aseh la'ish asher lo-yivneh et-bet akhiv

his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull the sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and make this declaration: Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house!

veniqra shemo beyisra'el bet khaluts hanna'al

And he shall go in Israel by the name of “the family of the unsandaled one.”

ki-yinnatsu anashim yakhdav ish ve'akhiv veqarevah eshet ha'ekhad lehatsil et-ishah miyyad makkehu veshalekhah yadah vehekheziqah bimvushayw

If two parties are fighting—one man with another—and the wife of one comes up to save her husband from his antagonist and puts out her hand and seizes him by his genitals,

veqatsotah et-kappah lo takhos enekha

you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

lo-yihyeh lekha bekhisekha even va'aven gedolah uqetannah

You shall not have in your pouch alternate weights, larger and smaller.

lo-yihyeh lekha bevetekha efah ve'efah gedolah uqetannah

You shall not have in your house alternate measures, a larger and a smaller.

even shelemah vatsedeq yihyeh-llakh efah shelemah vatsedeq yihyeh-llakh lema'an ya'arikhu yamekha al ha'adamah asher-Adonai elohekha noten lakh

You must have completely honest weights and completely honest measures, if you are to endure long on the soil that the ETERNAL your God is giving you.

ki to'avat Adonai elohekha kol-oseh elleh kol oseh avel

For everyone who does those things, everyone who deals dishonestly, is abhorrent to the ETERNAL your God.

zakhor et asher-asah lekha amaleq badderekh betsetekhem mimmitsrayim

Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt—

asher qarekha badderekh vayezannev bekha kol-hannekheshalim akharekha ve'attah ayef veyagea velo yare elohim

how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear.

vehayah behaniakh Adonai elohekha lekha mikkol-oyevekha missaviv ba'arets asher Adonaielohekha noten lekha nakhalah lerishtah timkheh et-zekher amaleq mittakhat hashamayim lo tishkakh

Therefore, when the ETERNAL your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!