Flogging limited, an ox unmuzzled
1If there is a dispute between people, and they go to court, and the judges decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty, 2then if the guilty one deserves to be flogged, the judge is to make him lie down and be beaten in his presence, with the number of lashes matching the severity of his crime. 3He may be given forty lashes but no more, or if more lashes are added beyond these, your brother will be degraded in your sight. 4Do not muzzle an ox while it is threshing grain.
The brother-in-law’s duty
5If brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the dead man must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her and marry her, fulfilling the duty of a brother-in-law. 6The first son she bears is to carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out from Israel. 7But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.” 8Then the elders of his city are to summon him and speak to him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,” 9his brother’s widow is to go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.” 10And his family line will be known in Israel as “The Family of the Unsandaled.” 11If two men are fighting each other, and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his attacker, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 12you are to cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
Honest weights and measures
13Do not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. 14Do not have two differing ephahs in your house, one large and one small. 15You are to have full and honest weights, and a full and honest ephah, so that you may live long in the land Yahweh your God is giving you. 16For everyone who does these things, everyone who deals dishonestly, is detestable to Yahweh your God.
Remember what Amalek did
17Remember what Amalek did to you on the journey after you came out of Egypt — 18how he met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind, when you were weary and worn out, and he had no fear of God. 19So when Yahweh your God gives you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land Yahweh your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.
