Darby Bible Translation

New American Standard Bible

Laws of Fairness

If there be a controversy between men, and they resort to judgment, and they judge [their case]; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

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Sundry Laws

“If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

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And it shall be if the wicked man have deserved to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and be beaten before his face, according to the measure of his wickedness with a certain number [of stripes].

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then it shall be if the wicked man 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 guilt.

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With forty [stripes] shall they beat him; they shall not exceed, lest, if they continue to beat him with many stripes above these, thy brother become despicable in thine eyes.

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“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 degraded in your eyes.

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Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].

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“You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

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Widowhood and Marriage

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger abroad: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

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“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. 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.

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And it shall be, that the firstborn that she beareth shall stand in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out from Israel.

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“It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

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But if the man like not to take his brother's wife, his brother's wife shall 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 for me the duty of a husband's brother.

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“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.’

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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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“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,’

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then shall his brother's wife come near to him before the eyes of the elders, and draw his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that will not build up his brother's house.

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then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

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And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe drawn off.

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“In Israel his name shall be called, ‘The house of him whose sandal is removed.’

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When men fight together one with another, and the wife of the one come near to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and stretch out her hand, and seize him by his secret parts,

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“If two men, a man and his 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,

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thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare.

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then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

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Standard Weights and Measures

Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

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“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

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Thou shalt not have in thy house divers ephahs, a great and a small.

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“You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

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A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just ephah shalt thou have; that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

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“You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

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For every one that doeth such things, every one that doeth unrighteousness, is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

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“For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the LORD your God.

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Blot Out Amalek

Remember what Amalek did unto thee on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt;

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“Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

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how he met thee on the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all the feeble that lagged behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary, and he feared not God.

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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 did not fear God.

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And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall have given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; thou shalt not forget it.

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“Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

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Deuteronomy 25

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