Fairness and Mercy 1 ULT If there is a dispute between men and they go to the judgment, and they judge them, then they shall declare the righteous as just and declare the wicked as unjust. 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 ULT And if the wicked is a son of striking, then the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten to his face as{ is} enough in number{ for} his wickedness. 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 ULT He shall not add to his 40 blows, lest he add his striking of him{ with} many{ more} blows than these, and your brother is humiliated before your eyes. 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 ULT You shall not muzzle an ox in his threshing. BSB BSB: Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Widowhood and Marriage 5 ULT If brothers live together and one of them dies, and he does not have a son, the wife of the dead man shall not be for a strange man from outside. Her brother- in- law shall go in to her and take her for himself as a wife, and{ be} her brother- in- law. 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 ULT And it will happen, the firstborn that she bears will rise up upon the name of his brother who died, and his name will not be wiped out 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 ULT But if the man does not delight in taking his brother’ s wife, then his brother’ s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say,‘My brother- in- law refuses to raise up for his brother a name in Israel; he is not willing{ to be} my brother- in- law.’ 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 ULT And the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. If he stands and says,‘I do not delight in taking her.’ 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 ULT Then his brother’ s wife shall come to him before the eyes of the elders and take off his sandal from his foot and spit in his face. And she shall respond and say,‘Thus is done to the man who does not build up the house of his brother.’ 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 ULT And his name will be called in Israel,‘The house of the sandal taken off.’ BSB BSB: And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
11 ULT If men fight with each other, a man and his brother, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker, and she stretches out her hand and seizes him by his genitals, 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 ULT then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity. 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 ULT You shall not have in your bag a stone and a stone, a large and a small. BSB BSB: You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
14 ULT You shall not have in your house an ephah and an ephah, a large and a small. BSB BSB: You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
15 ULT A perfect and just stone you shall have; a perfect and just ephah you shall have, so that your days will be long in the land that Yahweh your God 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 ULT For all who do these, all who do injustice{ are} an abomination{ to} Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Revenge on the Amalekites 17 ULT Remember what Amalek did to you on the road as you came out from Egypt, BSB BSB: Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
18 ULT how he met you on the road and attacked you from behind, all the stragglers following you, and you{ were} faint and weary; and he did not fear God. 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 ULT And it will happen, when Yahweh your God has given to you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to possess{ as} an inheritance, you shall wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget. 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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