Fairness and Mercy

1If there is a dispute between men, and they come to the court, they are to be judged, and the righteous shall be declared righteous, and the wicked condemned.

2And it shall come to pass, if a son—the wicked man—deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and to be struck in his presence according to his wrongdoing, by number. 3Forty times he shall strike him—no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him above these with many blows, and your brother be humiliated in your eyes.

4You shall not muzzle an ox in its threshing.†

Widowhood and Marriage

5If brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son to him, the widow of the dead man shall not be outside to a sojourner. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of her husband's brother.† 6And it shall come to pass that the firstborn son that she bears will rise up upon the name of the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out from Israel.

7But if the man does not want to take his brother’s widow, let his brother’s widow go up to the gate to the elders and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up for his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my brother-in-law.”

8And the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. And if he stands firm and says, “I do not want to take her,” 9his brother’s widow shall come to him before the eyes of the elders, and remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face, and answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who will not build up the house of his brother.” 10And his name shall be called in Israel, “The house of the removed sandal.”

11If men fight with each other, a man and his brother, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and she puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals, 12then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall not pity her.

Standard Weights and Measures
(Proverbs 11:1–3; Ezekiel 45:10–12)

13You shall not have in your bag a stone and a stone, a large and a small. 14You shall not have in your house an ephah and an ephah, a large and a small.

15And you shall have a complete and just stone, and you shall have a complete and just ephah, so that your days may be prolonged in the land that YHWH your God is giving to you. 16For an abomination to YHWH your God is anyone doing these things—anyone doing iniquity.

Revenge on the Amalekites

17Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, as you⁺ were coming out of Egypt, 18how he met you on the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear; and you were tired and weary, and he did not fear God.

19And it will come to pass, when YHWH your God has given rest to you from your enemies all around, in the land that YHWH your God is giving to you as an inheritance to possess, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget.