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¹If a cause is betwixt any men, and they ask judges, they shall give the victory of rightwiseness to him, whom they perceive to be just or rightwise, and they shall condemn him of wicked-ness, whom they perceive to be wicked.

²And if they see him that hath sinned, worthy of beatings, they shall cast him down, and they shall make him to be beaten before them; and the manner of the beatings shall be for the measure of the sin,

³so only that they pass not the number of forty strokes, lest thy brother be rent vilely before thine eyes, and go then away.

⁴Thou shalt not bind the mouth of the ox treading thy fruits in the corn-floor.

⁵When brethren dwell together, and one of them is dead without free children, the wife of the dead brother shall not be wedded to another man, but his brother shall take her, and he shall raise the seed of his brother.

⁶And he shall call her first begotten son by his name, that is, of the dead brother, that his name be not done away from Israel.

⁷And if he will not take the wife of his brother, which is due to him by law, the woman shall go to the gate of the city; and she shall ask the greater men in birth, and she shall say to them, My husband’s brother will not raise the seed of his brother in Israel, neither he will take me into marriage.

⁸And anon they shall make him to be called, and they shall ask him. If he answer, and say, I will not take her to wife;

⁹the woman shall go to him before the elder men of Israel, and she shall take his shoe off from his foot, and she shall spit into his face, and she shall say to them, Thus it shall be done to the man, that buildeth not his brother’s house;

¹⁰and his name shall be called in Israel, The house of the man unshod.

¹¹If two men have strife betwixt themselves, and one beginneth to strive against another, and the wife of the one man will deliver her husband from the hand of the stronger man, and she putteth forth her hand, and holdeth him by his privy members,

¹²thou shalt cut off her hand, neither thou shalt be bowed on her with any mercy.

¹³Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a greater to buy with, and a lesser to sell with,

¹⁴neither a bushel more and a bushel less shall be in thine house.

¹⁵Thou shalt have a just weight and true, and an even bushel and true shall be to thee, that thou live in much time on the land which thy Lord God shall give to thee.

¹⁶For the Lord shall have him abominable that doeth these things, and he loatheth, either curseth, all unrightfulness or unrightwiseness.

¹⁷Have mind what things Amalek did to thee in the way, when thou wentest out of Egypt;

¹⁸how he came to thee, and killed the last men of thine host, that sat behind weary, when thou were dis-eased with hunger and travail, and he dreaded not God.

¹⁹Therefore when thy Lord God hath given rest to thee, and hath made subject to thee all nations about, in the land that he promised to thee, thou shalt do away Amalek’s name from under heaven; be thou ware lest thou forget this.