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1 If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.
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Suppose two persons have a dispute and enter into litigation, and the judges decide between them, declaring one to be in the right and the other to be in the wrong.
2 And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:
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If the one in the wrong deserves to be flogged, the judge shall make that person lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes proportionate to the offense.
3 Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.
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Forty lashes may be given but not more; if more lashes than these are given, your neighbor will be degraded in your sight.
4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.
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You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
5 When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:
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When brothers reside together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her, taking her in marriage, and performing the duty of a husband's brother to her,
6 And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.
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and the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed to the name of the deceased brother, so that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
7 But if he will not take his brother’s wife, who by law belongeth to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up his brother’s name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.
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But if the man has no desire to marry his brother's widow, then his brother's widow shall go up to the elders at the gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me."
8 And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:
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Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, "I have no desire to marry her,"
9 The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother’s house:
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then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and declare, "This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house."
10 And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of the unshod.
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Throughout Israel his family shall be known as "the house of him whose sandal was pulled off."
11 If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against the other, and the other’s wife willing to deliver her husband out of the hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the secrets,
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If men get into a fight with one another, and the wife of one intervenes to rescue her husband from the grip of his opponent by reaching out and seizing his genitals,
12 Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.
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you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.
13 Thou shalt not have divers weights in thy bag, a greater and a less:
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You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, large and small.
14 Neither shall there be in thy house a greater bushel and a less.
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You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, large and small.
15 Thou shalt have a just and a true weight, and thy bushel shall be equal and true: that thou mayest live a long time upon the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee.
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You shall have only a full and honest weight; you shall have only a full and honest measure, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
16 For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he hateth all injustice.
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For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are abhorrent to the Lord your God.
17 Remember what Amalec did to thee in the way when thou camest out of Egypt:
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Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey out of Egypt,
18 How he met thee: and slew the hindmost of the army, who sat down, being weary, when thou wast spent with hunger and labour, and he feared not God.
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how he attacked you on the way, when you were faint and weary, and struck down all who lagged behind you; he did not fear God.
19 Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall have subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath promised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou forget it not.
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Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies on every hand, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; do not forget.
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