Deuteronomy 25 :: King James Version (KJV)

Sundry Laws

Deu 25:1If 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.

Deu 25:2

Deu 25:2And 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.

Deu 25:3

Deu 25:3Forty 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.

Deu 25:4

Deu 25:4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

Deu 25:5

Deu 25:5If 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.

Deu 25:6

Deu 25:6And 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.

Deu 25:7

Deu 25:7And 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.

Deu 25:8

Deu 25:8Then 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;

Deu 25:9

Deu 25:9Then 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.

Deu 25:10

Deu 25:10And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

Deu 25:11

Deu 25:11When 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:

Deu 25:12

Deu 25:12Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

Deu 25:13

Deu 25:13Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

Deu 25:14

Deu 25:14Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

Deu 25:15

Deu 25:15But 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.

Deu 25:16

Deu 25:16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Deu 25:17

Deu 25:17Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

Deu 25:18

Deu 25:18How 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.

Deu 25:19

Deu 25:19Therefore 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.

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Deuteronomy 25 :: King James Version (KJV)

Sundry Laws

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