1 If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court for judgment, the judges shall justify the innocent and condemn the guilty.

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 If the guilty one deserves to be beaten, the judge will have him lie down and be struck before him, according to the severity of his crime, with a number of blows.

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 He may be given up to forty lashes but no more, so that the punishment does not exceed this, and your brother is not degraded in your sight by excessive beating.

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 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the dead man's wife must not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

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 The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out of Israel.

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 But if the man does not wish to marry his brother's widow, she shall go to the elders at the city gate and say, 'My brother-in-law is refusing to perform his duty to preserve his brother's name in Israel. He is unwilling to marry me.'

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 summon him and speak to him. If he persists and says, 'I do not want to marry her,'

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 his brother's widow shall approach him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and declare, 'This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line.'

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 His family shall be known in Israel as 'The Family of the Unsandaled.'

And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

11 If two men fight with each other, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs him by his private parts,

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 you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag, a heavy one and a light one.

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

14 Do not have two differing measures in your house, a large one and a small one.

Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

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 anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly, is detestable to the LORD your God.

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

17 Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey out of Egypt,

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

18 how he met you on the road, attacked all who were lagging behind you when you were tired and weary, and he did not fear God.

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, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you in the land He is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

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.