1If there is a dispute between people and they go to court, the judges must declare the innocent person not guilty and the guilty person guilty.
2If the guilty person deserves to be beaten, the judge must make them lie down and be beaten in his presence, giving them a specific number of lashes according to how bad their crime was.
3The judge may give them no more than forty lashes. If they give more, then your fellow Israelite would be publicly disgraced in your eyes.
4Do not tie up the mouth of an ox while it is crushing grain.
5If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, his widow must not marry an outsider. Her husband’s brother must marry her and fulfill the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
6The first son she has will carry on the name of his deceased brother, so that his name will not be forgotten in Israel.
7But if the man refuses to marry his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife must go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to continue his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
8Then the elders of his city will call for him and speak to him. If he stands there and says, “I don’t want to marry her”;
9then his brother’s wife will come to him in front of the elders. She will take his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. She will declare, “This is what happens to the man who refuses to build up his brother’s family.”
10His family will be known in Israel as “The house of the man whose sandal was removed.”
11When two men are fighting and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one who is hitting him, and she reaches out and grabs him by his private parts,
12then you must cut off her hand. Show no pity.
13You must not carry two different sets of weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
14You must not have two different sets of measures in your house, one large and one small.
15You must have accurate and fair weights. You must have accurate and fair measures, so that you may live long in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.
16For Yahweh your God detests everyone who does these things, all who act dishonestly.
17Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your journey after you left Egypt.
18They met you on the way and attacked all the stragglers at the rear, those who were weak and weary, when you were tired and worn out; and they did not fear God.
19So when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you must wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget this.