Deuteronomy 25 · Parashat Ki Teitzei

If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and he shall be beaten in his presence, according to his fault, by a certain number.

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 shall be thus made vile before thee.

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

If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry abroad to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not wiped out in Yisra᾽el.

And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Yisra᾽el, he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother.

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and he shall stand, and say, I do not wish to take her;

then shall his brother’s wife approach 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, Thus shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother’s house.

And his name shall be called in Yisra᾽el, The house of him that had his shoe loosed.

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and putting out her hand, she takes hold of his private parts:

then thou shalt cut off her hand, thy eye shall not pity her.

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

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

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 gives thee.

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

Remember what ῾Amaleq did to thee by the way, when you were come out of Miżrayim:

how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God has given thee rest from all thy enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of ῾Amaleq from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.