Deuteronomy:25
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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 .
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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 .
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Forty stripes he may give him ,
and not exceed :
lest ,
if he should exceed ,
and beat him above these with many stripes ,
then your brother should seem vile unto you .
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You shall not suppress the ox when he treads out the corn .
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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 .
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And it shall be ,
that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead ,
that his name be not put out of Israel .
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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 refuses to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel ,
he will not perform the duty of my husband '
s brother .
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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 ;
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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 .
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And his name shall be called in Israel ,
The house of him that has his shoe loosed .
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When men strive together one with another ,
and the wife of the one draws near in order to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that strikes him ,
and puts forth her hand ,
and takes him by the secrets :
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Then you shall cut off her hand ,
yours eye shall not pity her .
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You shall not have in your bag divers weights ,
a great and a small .
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You shall not have in yours house divers measures ,
a great and a small .
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But you shall have a perfect and just weight ,
a perfect and just measure shall you have :
that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God gives you .
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For all that do such things ,
and all that do unrighteously ,
are an abomination unto the LORD your God .
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Remember what Amalek did unto you by the way ,
when all of you were come forth out of Egypt ;
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How he met you by the way ,
and stroke the hindmost of you ,
even all that were feeble behind you ,
when you were faint and weary ;
and he feared not God .
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Therefore it shall be ,
when the LORD your God has given you rest from all yours enemies round about ,
in the land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it ,
that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;
you shall not forget it .