1If two men have a dispute and come to court, the judges will judge them. They must declare the one in the right to be righteous, and condemn the one who is guilty.
2If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge will make him lie down. He will be beaten in front of the judge with the number of blows his offence deserves.
3He may be given forty blows, but no more. If he is given more blows than these, your brother would seem worthless in your eyes.
4You must not muzzle the ox while it treads out the grain.
5If brothers live together and one of them dies with no child, the dead man's wife must not marry outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother must go in to her and take her as his wife. He must do for her the duty of a husband's brother.
6The firstborn son she bears will carry on the name of the brother who died, so that his name is not blotted out from Israel.
7If the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel. He will not do for me the duty of a husband's brother."
8Then the elders of his city will call him and speak to him. If he stands by his refusal and says, "I do not want to take her,"
9then his brother's wife will come to him in front of the elders. She will pull his shoe off his foot and spit in his face, and she will say, "This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's house."
10And in Israel his family will be called, "The house of him whose shoe was pulled off."
11When two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one of them comes near to rescue her husband from the man who is hitting him, and she reaches out her hand and takes hold of his private parts,
12then you must cut off her hand. Your eye must not pity her.
13You must not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a heavy one and a light one.
14You must not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large one and a small one.
15You must have a weight that is true and honest, and a measure that is true and honest. Then you will live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
16For everyone who does such things, everyone who acts dishonestly, is detestable to the LORD your God.
17Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you came out of Egypt.
18He met you on the way and attacked those at the back, all the weak ones who lagged behind you, when you were tired and worn out. And he did not fear God.
19So when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance to possess, you must blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.