Deuteronomy 25 - New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)

Sundry Laws

25 “(A)If there is a dispute between men and they go to [a]court, and [b]the judges decide their case, (B)and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, 2 then it shall be if the wicked man [c](C)deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his [d]guilt. 3 (D)He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not (E)degraded in your eyes.

4 “(F)You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

5 “When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. (G)Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall [e]assume the name of his dead brother, so that (H)his name will not be blotted out from Israel. 7 (I)But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ 8 Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’ 9 (J)then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and (K)spit in his face; and she shall [f]declare, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’ 10 In Israel his name shall be called, ‘The house of him whose sandal is removed.’

11 “If two men, a man and his [g]countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, 12 then you shall cut off her [h]hand; [i](L)you shall not show pity.

13 “(M)You shall not have in your bag [j]differing weights, a large and a small. 14 You shall not have in your house [k]differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just [l]measure, (N)that your days may be prolonged in the [m]land which the Lord your God gives you. 16 For (O)everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God.

17 “(P)Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt, 18 how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he (Q)did not [n]fear God. 19 Therefore it shall come about when the Lord your God has given you (R)rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance to [o]possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 25:1 Lit the judgment
  2. Deuteronomy 25:1 Lit they judge them
  3. Deuteronomy 25:2 Lit is a son of beating
  4. Deuteronomy 25:2 Or wickedness
  5. Deuteronomy 25:6 Lit stand on
  6. Deuteronomy 25:9 Lit answer and say
  7. Deuteronomy 25:11 Lit brother
  8. Deuteronomy 25:12 Lit palm
  9. Deuteronomy 25:12 Lit your eye
  10. Deuteronomy 25:13 Lit a stone and a stone
  11. Deuteronomy 25:14 Lit an ephah and an ephah
  12. Deuteronomy 25:15 Lit ephah
  13. Deuteronomy 25:15 Lit ground
  14. Deuteronomy 25:18 Or reverence
  15. Deuteronomy 25:19 Lit possess it

Cross references

  1. Deuteronomy 25:1 : Deut 17:8-13; 19:17
  2. Deuteronomy 25:1 : Deut 1:16, 17
  3. Deuteronomy 25:2 : Prov 19:29; Luke 12:48
  4. Deuteronomy 25:3 : 2 Cor 11:24
  5. Deuteronomy 25:3 : Job 18:3
  6. Deuteronomy 25:4 : Prov 12:10; 1 Cor 9:9; 1 Tim 5:18
  7. Deuteronomy 25:5 : Matt 22:24; Mark 12:19; Luke 20:28
  8. Deuteronomy 25:6 : Ruth 4:5, 10
  9. Deuteronomy 25:7 : Ruth 4:5, 6
  10. Deuteronomy 25:9 : Ruth 4:7, 8
  11. Deuteronomy 25:9 : Num 12:14
  12. Deuteronomy 25:12 : Deut 7:2; 19:13
  13. Deuteronomy 25:13 : Lev 19:35-37; Prov 11:1; 20:23; Ezek 45:10; Mic 6:11
  14. Deuteronomy 25:15 : Ex 20:12
  15. Deuteronomy 25:16 : Prov 11:1
  16. Deuteronomy 25:17 : Ex 17:8-16
  17. Deuteronomy 25:18 : Ps 36:1; Rom 3:18
  18. Deuteronomy 25:19 : Deut 12:9

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