Open English Translation DEU Chapter 25

25 If two parties have a dispute, they can request a judgement and the judges will decide who’s right and wrong. 2 If the guilty person is deserving of punishment, the judge will order him to lie on the ground where he’ll be whipped in front of the judge as the crime deserves. 3 He may not receive more than forty lashes because that would be too degrading.

4 Don’t cover your cow’s mouth when it’s pulling the grain threshing sledge.[ref]

5 If some brothers live on the same property and one of them dies without leaving a son, then the widow mustn’t marry outside of the family. Her brother-in-law must take her as a wife for himself and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.[ref] 6 If she gives birth to a son in due course, he’ll be considered as the son of the brother who died, so that his family name won’t disappear from Yisrael. 7 But if the dead man’s brother doesn’t want to marry the widow, she must go to the elders at the city gate and explain that her brother-in-law is refusing to do his duty to preserve the dead brother’s family name in Yisrael.[ref] 8 Then those elders must summon the brother and talk to him. However, if he really doesn’t want to marry her, 9 then his late brother’s wife must go up to him in front of those elders, and take his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. Then she must say, ‘That’s what happens to a man who won’t strengthen his brother’s family.’ 10 After that, the brother will be known in Yisrael as the man who had his sandal taken off.

11 If two men are fighting each other, and one man’s wife comes to help her husband, and reaches out and grabs the other man’s private parts, 12 then you must cut her hand off. Don’t pity her.

13 Don’t keep two stone weights in your bag—a lighter one and a heavier one for when you’re buying and selling.[ref] 14 Don’t keep two measuring containers in your house—a smaller one and a larger one. 15 You must use exact stone weights and measuring containers so that your god Yahweh will prolong your time in the country that he’s giving you—16 he can’t stand people who cheat others.

17 Don’t forget what the Amalekites did to you people when you came out of Egypt.[ref] 18 They met you on the road, then attacked you from behind—getting the stragglers who were weak and exhausted. They had no fear of God. 19 At some point in the future when your god Yahweh has given you the land to occupy as an inheritance, and you’re no longer being attacked by your enemies, you must eliminate the Amalekites so they won’t be remembered anymore. Don’t forget to do that.