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Deuteronomy 25
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| 25:1 If 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. |
 (25:1-3) "The judge shall cause him to lie down, and be
beaten."
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are needed. Those found guilty will be beaten with 40 stripes.
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| 25:2
And 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.
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| 25:3 Forty 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.
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| 25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. |
"Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn."
Let the animal eat while it works.
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| 25:5
If 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. |
(25:5-10) If a man dies before his wife has a child,
then the widow must marry her husband's brother -- whether she likes him or not,
and whether she wants to or not. If the he refuses to "go in unto" his dead brother's wife, the
she must loosen his shoe and spit in his face.
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| 25:6
And 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.
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| 25:7
And 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. |
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| 25:8
Then 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; |
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| 25:9
Then 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. |
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| 25:10
And his name shall be
called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. |
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| 25:11
When 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: |
(25:11-12) "Thine eye shall not pity her."
If two men fight and the wife of one
grabs the "secrets" of the other, "then thou shalt cut off her
hand" and "thine eye shall not pity her."
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| 25:12
Then thou shalt cut
off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
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| 25:13
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
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| 25:14
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
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| 25:15
But 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. |
(25:13-15)
"Thou shalt have a perfect and just weight."
Be honest when you deal with others. Don't cheat.
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| 25:16
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an
abomination unto the LORD thy God. |
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| 25:17
Remember what Amalek
did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; |
(24:17-19) God hates Amalekites
God tells the Israelites to "remember what Amalek did unto thee" and to
"blot out the rembrance of Amalek from under heaven." A few hundred years later
God orders Saul to kill of the Amalekites "both man and woman, infant and
suckling." (1 Sam.15:2-3)
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| 25:18
How 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.
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| 25:19
Therefore 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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