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And if there should be a dispute between men, and they should come forward to judgment, and judge, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked:
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then it shall come to pass, if the unrighteous should be worthy of stripes, thou shalt lay him down before the judges, and they shall scourge him before them according to his iniquity.
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And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if thou shouldest scourge him more stripes beyond these stripes, thy brother will be disgraced before thee.
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Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn.
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And if brethren should live together, and one of them should die, and should not have seed, the wife of the deceased shall not marry out to a man not related: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and shall take her to himself for a wife, and shall dwell with her.
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And it shall come to pass that the child which she shall bear, shall be named by the name of the deceased, and his name shall not be blotted out of Israel.
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And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband's brother has refused.
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And the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him; and if he stand and say, I will not take her:
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then his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Israel.
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And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has had his shoe loosed.