Deuteronomy 25
25
1Two people may have an argument. They should go to the court. And the judges will decide the case. They will declare one person to be right. And they will punish the one who is guilty. 2The guilty person might have to be punished with a beating. If so, the judge will make him lie down. They will beat him in front of the judge. The number of lashes should match the crime. 3But don’t hit him more than 40 times. If he is beaten more than that, it would disgrace him before others.
4When an ox is working in the grain, do not cover its mouth to keep it from eating.
5Two brothers might be living together. One of them might die without having a son. His widow must not marry someone outside her husband’s family. Her husband’s brother must marry her. This is his duty for her as a brother-in-law. 6The first son she has must be named for the dead brother. Then his name will not be forgotten in Israel.
7But a man might not want to marry his brother’s widow. Then she should go to the elders at the town gate. And she should say, “My brother-in-law will not carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He refuses to do his duty for me.”
8Then the elders of the town must call for the man and talk to him. But he might be stubborn and say, “I don’t want to marry her.”
9If he does, the woman must go up to him in front of the elders. She must take off one of his sandals. She must spit in his face and say, “This is for the man who won’t continue his brother’s family!” 10Then that man’s family shall be known in Israel as the Family of the Unsandaled.
11Two men might be fighting. And one man’s wife comes to save her husband from his attacker. And she grabs the attacker by his sex organs. 12You must cut off her hand. Give her no mercy.
13Don’t carry two sets of weights with you, one heavy and one light. 14Don’t have two different sets of measures in your house, one large and one small. 15You must have true and honest weights and measures. Then you will live a long time in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 16The Lord your God hates anyone who is dishonest and uses dishonest measures.
17Remember what the Amalekites did to you when you came out of Egypt. 18You were tired and worn out. And they met you on the road. They killed all those lagging behind. They were not afraid of God. 19The Lord your God will give you rest from all the enemies around you. It will be in the land he is giving you to own. Then you shall destroy any memory of the Amalekites on the earth. Do not forget!
Currently Selected:
Deuteronomy 25: ICB
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
Copyright © 2015 by Tommy Nelson™, a Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Deuteronomy 25
25
1 "If there is a case between persons, and they apply to the judges, they shall give the palm of justice to the one whom they perceive to be just, and they shall condemn of impiety the one who is impious.
2 But if they see that the one who has sinned is worthy of stripes, they shall prostrate him and cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin, so shall the measure of the stripes be.
3 Even so, these shall not exceed the number of forty. Otherwise, your brother may depart, having been wounded shamefully before your eyes.
4 You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out your crops in the field.
5 When brothers are living together, and one of them dies without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry another. Instead, his brother shall take her, and he shall raise up offspring for his brother.
6 And the first son from her, he shall call by his brother's name, so that his name will not be abolished from Israel.
7 But if he is not willing to take his brother's wife, who by law must go to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and she shall call upon those greater by birth, and she shall say: 'The brother of my husband is not willing to raise up his brother's name in Israel; nor will he join with me.'
8 And immediately, they shall summon him to be sent, and they shall question him. If he responds, 'I am not willing to accept her as a wife,'
9 then the woman shall approach him in the sight of the elders, and she shall remove his shoe from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall say: 'So shall it be done to the man who was not willing to build up his brother's house.'
10 And his name shall be called in Israel: The House of the Unshod.
11 If two men have a conflict between themselves, and one begins to do violence to the other, and if the other's wife, wanting to rescue her husband from the hand of the stronger one, extends her hand and grasps him by his private parts,
12 then you shall cut off her hand. Neither shall you weep over her with any mercy.
13 You shall not have differing weights, greater and lesser, in your bag.
14 Neither shall there be in your house a greater and a lesser measure.
15 You shall have a just and a true weight, and your measure shall be equal and true, so that you may live for a long time upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
16 For the Lord your God abominates him who does these things, and he loathes all injustice.
17 Remember what Amalek did to you, along the way, when you were departing from Egypt:
18 how he met you and cut down the stragglers of the troops, who were sitting down, exhausted, when you were consumed by hunger and hardship, and how he did not fear God.
19 Therefore, when the Lord your God will give you rest, and you will have subdued all the surrounding nations, in the land which he has promised to you, you shall delete his name from under heaven. Take care not to forget this."
Currently Selected:
:
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in