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25 「人與人若有爭訟,要求審判,當宣判義人為義,惡人有罪的時候, 惡人若該受責打,審判官就要叫他當着面,伏在地上,按他的罪照數責打。 只能打四十下,不可加多;多過這數目就是在你眼中作賤你的弟兄了。

「牛在踹穀的時候,不可籠住牠的嘴。」

為去世的兄弟傳宗接代

「兄弟住在一起,若其中一個死了,沒有兒子,死者的妻子就不可出去嫁給陌生人。她丈夫的兄弟應當盡兄弟的本分,娶她為妻,與她同房。 婦人生的長子要歸在已故兄弟的名下,免得他的名在以色列中塗去了。 那人若不情願娶他兄弟的妻子,他兄弟的妻子就要上到城門長老那裏,說:『我丈夫的兄弟拒絕在以色列中為他的兄弟留名,不願意為我盡兄弟的本分。』 本城的長老就要召那人來,跟他談話。若他堅持說:『我不情願娶她。』 他兄弟的妻子就要在長老眼前來到那人跟前,脫下他腳上的鞋,吐唾沫在他臉上,回應說:『凡不為兄弟建立家室的都要這樣待他。』 10 以色列中,他要以『脫鞋之家』聞名。」

其他條例

11 「若有人和弟兄爭鬥,其中一人的妻子近前去,為了救丈夫脫離那打丈夫之人的手,伸手抓住那人的下體, 12 你就要砍斷婦人的手,你的眼不可顧惜。

13 「你袋中不可有一大一小兩樣的法碼。 14 你家裏不可有一大一小兩樣的伊法[a] 15 當用準確公正的法碼和伊法,好使你的日子在耶和華—你 神所賜你的地上得以長久。 16 因為行這一切不義之事的人都是耶和華—你 神所憎惡的。」

命令消滅亞瑪力人

17 「你要記得你們出埃及的時候,亞瑪力在路上怎樣對待你, 18 在路上迎擊你,趁你疲乏困倦時擊殺所有在你後面軟弱的人;並不敬畏 神。 19 所以,當耶和華—你的 神使你不被四圍一切仇敵擾亂,在耶和華—你 神賜你為業的地上得享平靜的時候,你要把亞瑪力的名從天下塗去;你不可忘記這事。」

Footnotes

  1. 25.14 「伊法」是量固體的量器或單位;下同。

25 When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges(A) will decide the case,(B) acquitting(C) the innocent and condemning the guilty.(D) If the guilty person deserves to be beaten,(E) the judge shall make them lie down and have them flogged in his presence with the number of lashes the crime deserves, but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes.(F) If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.(G)

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.(H)

If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.(I) The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.(J)

However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife,(K) she shall go to the elders at the town gate(L) and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”(M) Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,” his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals,(N) spit in his face(O) and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.” 10 That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.

11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.(P)

13 Do not have two differing weights in your bag—one heavy, one light.(Q) 14 Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. 15 You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long(R) in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 16 For the Lord your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.(S)

17 Remember what the Amalekites(T) did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. 18 When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.(U) 19 When the Lord your God gives you rest(V) from all the enemies(W) around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek(X) from under heaven. Do not forget!

25 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.

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.

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

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.

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

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 refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

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;

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.

10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

19 Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.