¹If there is a controversy between men , and they come to judgment and the judges judge them , then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked .

²It shall be , if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten , that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face , according to his wickedness , by number .

³He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes . He shall not give more , lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes , then your brother will be degraded in your sight .

⁴You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

⁵If brothers dwell together , and one of them dies and has no son , the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger . Her husband’s brother shall go in to her , and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her .

⁶It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead , that his name not be blotted out of Israel .

⁷If the man doesn’t want to take his brother ’s wife , then his brother ’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders , and say , “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel . He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me .”

⁸Then the elders of his city shall call him , and speak to him . If he stands and says , “I don’t want to take her ,”

⁹then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders , and loose his sandal from off his foot , and spit in his face . She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house .”

¹⁰His name shall be called in Israel , “The house of him who had his sandal removed .”

¹¹When men strive against each other , and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him , and puts out her hand , and grabs him by his private parts ,

¹²then you shall cut off her hand . Your eye shall have no pity .

¹³You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

¹⁴You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small .

¹⁵You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you .

¹⁶For all who do such things , all who do unrighteously , are an abomination to the LORD your God .

¹⁷Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt ,

¹⁸how he met you by the way , and struck the rearmost of you , all who were feeble behind you , when you were faint and weary ; and he didn’t fear God .

¹⁹Therefore it shall be , when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around , in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it , that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky . You shall not forget .