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1 If there be a con­tro­ver­sy be­tween men, and they come unto judg­ment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall jus­ti­fy the righ­teous, and con­demn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be wor­thy to be beat­en, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beat­en be­fore his face, ac­cord­ing to his fault, by a cer­tain num­ber. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not ex­ceed: lest, if he should ex­ceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy broth­er should seem vile unto thee. 4 Thou shalt not muz­zle the ox when he tread­eth out the corn. 5 If brethren dwell to­geth­er, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not mar­ry with­out unto a stranger: her husband's broth­er shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and per­form the duty of an husband's broth­er unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the first­born which she beareth shall suc­ceed in the name of his broth­er which is dead, that his name be not put out of Is­rael. 7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the el­ders, and say, My husband's broth­er re­fuseth to raise up unto his broth­er a name in Is­rael, he will not per­form the duty of my husband's broth­er. 8 Then the el­ders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand ­to it, and say, I like not to take her; 9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the pres­ence of the el­ders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall an­swer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. 10 And his name shall be called in Is­rael, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. 11 When men strive to­geth­er one with an­oth­er, and the wife of the one draweth near for to de­liv­er her hus­band out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and put­teth forth her hand, and taketh him by the se­crets: 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. 13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers mea­sures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a per­fect and just weight, a per­fect and just mea­sure shalt thou have: that thy days may be length­ened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do un­righ­teous­ly, are an abom­i­na­tion unto the LORD thy God. 17 Re­mem­ber what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; 18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hind­most of thee, even all that were fee­ble be­hind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. 19 There­fore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath giv­en thee rest from all thine en­e­mies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an in­her­i­tance to pos­sess it, that thou shalt blot out the re­mem­brance of Amalek from un­der heav­en; thou shalt not for­get it.