25Deuteronomy 25

CHAP. XXV. / 1 Stripes must not exceed fortie. 4 The Oxe is not to be musled. 5 Of raising seed vnto a brother. 11 Of the immodest woman. 13 Of vniust weights. 17 The memorie of Amalek is to be blotte

1If there bee a controuersie betweene men, and they come vnto iudgment, that the Iudges may iudge them, then they shall iustifie the righteous, and condemne the wicked.Select Deuteronomy 25:1

2And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the Iudge shall cause him to lie downe, and to bee beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certaine number.Select Deuteronomy 25:2

3Fourtie stripes he may giue him, and not exceed: lest if he should exceede, and beate him aboue these, with many stripes, then thy brother should seeme vile vnto thee.Select Deuteronomy 25:3

4Thou shalt not mussell the oxe when he treadeth out the corne.Select Deuteronomy 25:4

5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and haue no child, the wife of the dead shall not marrie without, vnto a stranger: her husbands brother shall go in vnto her, and take her to him to wife, and performe the duetie of an husbands brother vnto her.Select Deuteronomy 25:5

6And it shall be, that the first borne which she beareth, shall succeede in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.Select Deuteronomy 25:6

7And if the man like not to take his brothers wife, then let his brothers wife go vp to the gate, vnto the Elders, and say, My husbands brother refuseth to raise vp vnto his brother a name in Israel: he will not performe the dutie of my husbands brother.Select Deuteronomy 25:7

8Then the Elders of his citie shall call him and speake vnto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her:Select Deuteronomy 25:8

9Then shal his brothers wife come vnto him in the presence of the Elders, and loose his shooe from off his foote, and spit in his face, and shall answere, and say, So shall it bee done vnto that man that will not build vp his brothers house.Select Deuteronomy 25:9

10And his name shall bee called in Israel, the house of him that hath his shooe loosed.Select Deuteronomy 25:10

11When men striue together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth neere, for to deliuer her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth foorth her hand and taketh him by the secrets:Select Deuteronomy 25:11

12Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pitie her.Select Deuteronomy 25:12

13Thou shalt not haue in thy bagge diuers weights, a great, and a small.Select Deuteronomy 25:13

14Thou shalt not haue in thine house diuers measures, a great, and a small.Select Deuteronomy 25:14

15But thou shalt haue a perfect and iust weight, a perfect and iust measure shalt thou haue: that thy dayes may bee lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee.Select Deuteronomy 25:15

16For all that doe such things, and all that doe vnrighteously, are an abomination vnto the Lord thy God.Select Deuteronomy 25:16

17Remember what Amalek did vnto thee by the way, when ye were come foorth out of Egypt:Select Deuteronomy 25:17

18How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, euen all that were feeble behinde thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.Select Deuteronomy 25:18

19Therefore it shall bee when the Lord thy God hath giuen thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee for an inheritance to possesse it; that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from vnder heauen: thou shalt not forget it.Select Deuteronomy 25:19