1   When two men go to law and present themselves for judgement, the judges shall try the case; they shall acquit the innocent and condemn the guilty. 2   If the guilty man is sentenced to be flogged, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence; the number of strokes shall correspond to the gravity of the offence. 3   They may give him forty strokes, but not more; otherwise, if they go further and exceed this number, your fellow-countryman will have been publicly degraded.

4   You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the corn.

God's laws delivered by Moses

5   When brothers live together and one of them dies without leaving a son, his widow shall not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall have intercourse with her; he shall take her in marriage and do his duty by her as her husband's brother. 6   The first son she bears shall perpetuate the dead brother's name so that it may not be blotted out from Israel. 7   But if the man is unwilling to take his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, ‘My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not do his duty by me.’ 8   At this the elders of the town shall summon him and reason with him. If he still stands his ground and says, ‘I will not take her’, 9   his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders; she shall pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face and declare: ‘Thus we requite the man who will not build up his brother's family.’ 10   His family shall be known in Israel as the House of the Unsandalled Man.

11   When two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes near to drag her husband clear of his opponent, if she puts out her hand and catches hold of the man's genitals, 12   you shall cut off her hand and show her no mercy.

13   You shall not have unequal weights in your bag, one heavy, the other light. 14   You shall not have unequal measures ^note in your house, one large, the other small. 15   You shall have true and correct weights and true and correct measures, so that you may live long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 16   All who commit these offences, all who deal dishonestly, are abominable to the Lord.

17   Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way out of Egypt, 18   how they met you on the road when you were faint and weary and cut off your rear, which was lagging behind exhausted: they showed no fear of God. 19   When the Lord your God gives you peace from your enemies on every side, in the land which he is giving you to occupy as your patrimony, you shall not fail to blot out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven.

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