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1 When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.
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`When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,
2 If the guilty person deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make them lie down and have them flogged in his presence with the number of lashes the crime deserves,
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then it hath come to pass, if the wrong-doer is to be smitten, that the judge hath caused him to fall down, and [one] hath smitten him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrong-doing, by number;
3 but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes. If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.
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forty [times] he doth smite him -- he is not adding, lest, he is adding to smite him above these -- many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes.
4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
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`Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.
5 If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
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`When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;
6 The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
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and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.
7 However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”
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`And if the man doth not delight to take his brother's wife, then hath his brother's wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband's brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband's brother;
8 Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,”
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and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her;
9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”
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`Then hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother;
10 That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
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and his name hath been called in Israel -- The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.
11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts,
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`When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets,
12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
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then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.
13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light.
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`Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.
14 Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small.
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Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.
15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;
16 For the LORD your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.
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for the abomination of Jehovah thy God [is] any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.
17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt.
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`Remember that which Amalek hath done to thee in the way, in your going out from Egypt,
18 When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.
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that he hath met thee in the way, and smiteth in all those feeble behind thee (and thou wearied and fatigued), and is not fearing God.
19 When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
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And it hath been, in Jehovah thy God's giving rest to thee, from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance to possess it -- thou dost blot out the rememberance of Amalek from under the heavens -- thou dost not forget.
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