Deuteronomy 25 (NET)

Deuteronomy 25:1¹If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:2²Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:3³The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:4⁴You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:5⁵If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:6⁶Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:7⁷But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:8⁸Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, “I don’t want to marry her,”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:9⁹then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then respond, “Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:10¹⁰His family name will be referred to in Israel as “the family of the one whose sandal was removed.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:11¹¹If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his private parts,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:12¹²then you must cut off her hand—do not pity her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:13¹³You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:14¹⁴You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:15¹⁵You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:16¹⁶For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:17¹⁷Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:18¹⁸how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 25:19¹⁹So when the Lord your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he is giving you as an inheritance, you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven —do not forget!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s