1 When two men have a dispute and go to court, the judges are to hear their case, pronouncing the righteous man righteous and the wicked man guilty.
2 If the guilty man deserves a beating, the judge is to have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his offense calls for.
3 He may receive forty lashes, but no more. If he is flogged with more lashes than that, your brother would be disgraced before your eyes.
4 Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain.
5 When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the dead man's wife must not marry outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother is to go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
6 The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name is not wiped out from Israel.
7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother's widow, she is to go up to the elders at the gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to keep his brother's name alive in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me."
8 The elders of his town are then to summon him and talk with him. If he persists and says, "I do not want to marry her,"
9 his brother's widow is to approach him in front of the elders, pull his sandal off 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."
10 From then on his family will be known in Israel as "the house of the man whose sandal was pulled off."
11 If two men are fighting, a man and his brother, and the wife of one of them comes up to rescue her husband from the man who is beating him, and she reaches out and grabs the other man by his genitals,
12 cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
13 Do not carry two different weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
14 Do not keep two different measures in your house, a large ephah and a small one.
15 Your weights must be full and honest, and your ephah must be full and honest, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
16 For everyone who does such things, everyone who deals dishonestly, is detestable to the LORD your God.
17 Remember what Amalek did to you along the way as you came out of Egypt,
18 how he met you on the road when you were tired and worn out, and cut off all the stragglers at your rear. He had no fear of God.
19 So when the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, wipe out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!