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. 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. 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.
4 ¶ Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn .
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. 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. 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. 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; 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. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
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: 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her .
13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. 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. 16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
17 ¶ Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; 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. 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 .
1 Kad vīri ķildojas, tad lai tos atved uz tiesu un iztiesā, – taisno tu attaisno, bet negantnieku sodi. 2 Ja negantnieks pelnījis sitienus, tad lai tiesnesis viņu nogulda un sit viņu pēc viņa nodarījuma. 3 Četrdesmit sitienus var sist un ne vairāk, vairāk gan lai nesit, ka ar daudziem sitieniem tavs brālis netiek apkaunots tavā priekšā.
4 Neaizsien purnu vērsim, kad tas min tavu klonu!
Brāļa dzimtas turpināšana
5 Ja brāļi dzīvo kopā un viens no tiem nomirst, un tam nav bijis dēla, tad mirušā sieva lai neiziet pie sveša vīra, bet lai tās vīrabrālis iet pie viņas un ņem viņu sev par sievu, lai dara to, kas vīrabrālim pienākas! 6 Pirmdzimtajam, ko viņa dzemdēs, lai dod vārdu pēc tā brāļa, kas miris, lai no Israēla netiktu izdzēsts viņa vārds. 7 Bet, ja tas negrib ņemt savu brāļasievu, tad lai viņa brāļasieva iet pie vecajiem vārtos un saka: mans vīrabrālis liedzas nostiprināt Israēlā sava brāļa vārdu un negrib man darīt to, kas vīrabrālim pienākas! 8 Tad lai pilsētas vecajie sauc viņu un runā ar viņu, bet, ja viņš pastāv uz savu un saka: es negribu viņu ņemt! – 9 tad lai viņa brāļasieva vecajo priekšā pienāk tam klāt, novelk viņam no kājas sandali, iespļauj viņam sejā un liecina pret viņu: tā tiek darīts vīram, kas neuzceļ sava brāļa namu! 10 Viņa vārds Israēlā lai tiek saukts: baskāja nams!
Nepieļaut apkaunojumu
11 Kad divi vīri kaujas un kāda sieva nāk glābt savu vīru no sitēja, izstiepj savu roku un sagrābj vienu aiz pautiem, 12 tad nocērt tai plaukstu, lai tev nav žēl!
Par divējādu mēru un svaru
13 Lai tavā namā nav divu dažādu svaru – lielu un mazu! 14 Lai tavā namā nav divu dažādu tilpuma mēru – lielu un mazu! 15 Lai tev ir pareizi un taisnīgi svari, lai tev ir pareizs un taisnīgs tilpuma mērs, tad būs ilgas tavas dienas zemē, ko Kungs, tavs Dievs, tev dod. 16 Kungam, tavam Dievam, ir pretīgi visi, kas tā dara, visi, kas dara netaisni!
Par amālēkiešiem
17 Atceries, ko tev darīja Amālēks, kad jūs iznācāt no Ēģiptes, 18 kā viņš ceļā tev nāca pretī, kā nokāva visus, kas bija palikuši iepakaļ, jo tu biji noguris un nomocījies, viņš Dieva nebijās! 19 Un tādēļ, kad Kungs, tavs Dievs, dos tev mieru no visiem taviem ienaidniekiem visapkārt – zemē, ko Kungs, tavs Dievs, dos tev mantojumā, – izdzēs Amālēka piemiņu zem debesīm, neaizmirsti to!
