Fairness and Mercy 1 UDB "If two Israelites have a dispute and they go to a court, the judge will probably decide that one is innocent and that the other one is guilty. BSB BSB: If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.
2 UDB If the judge says that the guilty person must be punished, he shall command him to lie with his face on the ground and be whipped. The number of times he is struck with a whip will depend on what kind of crime he committed. BSB BSB: If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.
3 UDB It is permitted that he be struck as many as forty times, but no more than that. If he is struck more than forty times, he would be humiliated publicly. BSB BSB: He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
4 UDB When your ox is walking on the grain to separate it from the chaff, do not prevent it from eating some of grain. BSB BSB: Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Widowhood and Marriage 5 UDB If two brothers live on the same property, and one of them who has no son dies, the man's widow should not marry someone who is not a member of his family. The dead man's brother must marry her and sleep with her. It is his duty to do that. BSB BSB: When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
6 UDB If she later gives birth to a son, that son is to be considered the son of the man who died, in order that the dead man's name will not disappear from Israel. BSB BSB: The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
7 UDB But if the dead man's brother does not want to marry that woman, she must stand at the city gate. She must say to the city leaders, 'My husband's brother refuses to marry me in order that I may give birth to a son who will prevent the dead man's name from disappearing in Israel.' BSB BSB: But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
8 UDB Then the elders must summon that man and talk to him. Perhaps he will still refuse to marry that widow. BSB BSB: Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
9 UDB In that case, she must go up to him while the elders are watching, and take off one of his sandals to symbolize that he would not receive any of her property, spit in his face, and say to him, 'This is what happens to the man who refuses to do what is needed to allow his dead brother to have a son in order that our family name does not disappear.' BSB BSB: his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
10 UDB After that happens, that man's family will be known as 'the family of the man whose sandal was pulled off.' BSB BSB: And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
11 UDB When two men are fighting with each other, and the one man's wife comes up to help her husband by grabbing hold of the other man's private parts, BSB BSB: If two men are fighting, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
12 UDB do not act mercifully toward her; cut off her hand. BSB BSB: you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
Standard Weights and Measures (Proverbs 11:1–3; Ezekiel 45:10–12)
13 UDB When you are buying or selling things, do not try to cheat people by having two kinds of weights, one that you use when you buy something and one that you use when you sell something; or two kinds of measuring baskets, one that you use when you buy something and one that you use when you sell something. BSB BSB: You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
15 UDB Always use correct weights and correct measuring baskets, in order that Yahweh our God will allow you to live a long time in the land that he is giving to you. BSB BSB: You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
16 UDB Yahweh hates all those who act dishonestly, and he will punish them. BSB BSB: For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Revenge on the Amalekites 17 UDB Continue to remember what the Amalek people did to your ancestors when they were coming out of Egypt. BSB BSB: Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
18 UDB They attacked your ancestors as they were traveling, when they were weak and exhausted. Those people were not afraid of God at all, so they attacked your ancestors from the rear and killed all those who were unable to walk as fast as the others. BSB BSB: how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.
19 UDB Therefore, when Yahweh our God has given you the land that he promised to give you, and when he has enabled you to rest from fighting all your enemies around you, kill all the Amalek people, with the result that no one will remember them anymore. Do not forget to do this! BSB BSB: When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
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