Deuteronomy · Bible in Basic English
Deuteronomy 25 Bible in Basic English
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1 If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.
1 CUANDO hubiere pleito entre algunos, y vinieren á juicio, y los juzgaren, y absolvieren al justo y condenaren al inicuo,
2 And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.
2 Será que, si el delincuente mereciere ser azotado, entonces el juez lo hará echar en tierra, y harále azotar delante de sí, según su delito, por cuenta.
3 He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.
3 Harále dar cuarenta azotes, no más: no sea que, si lo hiriere con muchos azotes á más de éstos, se envilezca tu hermano delante de tus ojos.
4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
4 No pondrás bozal al buey cuando trillare.
5 If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.
5 Cuando hermanos estuvieren juntos, y muriere alguno de ellos, y no tuviere hijo, la mujer del muerto no se casará fuera con hombre extraño: su cuñado entrará á ella, y la tomará por su mujer, y hará con ella parentesco.
6 Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.
6 Y será que el primogénito que pariere ella, se levantará en nombre de su hermano el muerto, porque el nombre de éste no sea raído de Israel.
7 But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.
7 Y si el hombre no quisiere tomar á su cuñada, irá entonces la cuñada suya á la puerta á los ancianos, y dirá: Mi cuñado no quiere suscitar nombre en Israel á su hermano; no quiere emparentar conmigo.
8 Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;
8 Entonces los ancianos de aquella ciudad lo harán venir, y hablarán con él: y si él se levantare, y dijere, No quiero tomarla,
9 Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.
9 Llegaráse entonces su cuñada á él delante de los ancianos, y le descalzará el zapato de su pie, y escupirále en el rostro, y hablará y dirá: Así será hecho al varón que no edificare la casa de su hermano.
10 And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.
10 Y su nombre será llamado en Israel: La casa del descalzado.
11 If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;
11 Cuando algunos riñeren juntos el uno con el otro, y llegare la mujer del uno para librar á su marido de mano del que le hiriere, y metiere su mano y le trabare de sus vergüenzas;
12 Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.
12 La cortarás entonces la mano, no [la] perdonará tu ojo.
13 Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
13 No tendrás en tu bolsa pesa grande y pesa chica.
14 Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.
14 No tendrás en tu casa epha grande y epha pequeño.
15 But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
15 Pesas cumplidas y justas tendrás; epha cabal y justo tendrás: para que tus días sean prolongados sobre la tierra que Jehová tu Dios te da.
16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
16 Porque abominación es á Jehová tu Dios cualquiera que hace esto, cualquiera que hace agravio.
17 Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;
17 Acuérdate de lo que te hizo Amalec en el camino, cuando salisteis de Egipto:
18 How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.
18 Que te salió al camino, y te desbarató la retaguardia de todos los flacos que [iban] detrás de ti, cuando tú estabas cansado y trabajado; y no temió á Dios.
19 So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.
19 Será pues, cuando Jehová tu Dios te hubiere dado reposo de tus enemigos alrededor, en la tierra que Jehová tu Dios te da por heredad para que la poseas, que raerás la memoria de Amalec de debajo del cielo: no te olvides.
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Proverbs 17:15; Deuteronomy 1:16–17; Deuteronomy 17:8–9; Deuteronomy 19:17–19; Malachi 3:18
- 2 Luke 12:47–48; 1 Peter 2:20; Matthew 10:17; 1 Peter 2:24; Acts 5:40
- 3 Job 18:3; James 2:2–3; 2 Corinthians 11:24–25; Luke 15:30; Luke 18:9–12
- 4 1 Timothy 5:17–18; 1 Corinthians 9:9–10; Proverbs 12:10; Hosea 10:11; Isaiah 28:27
- 5 Luke 20:28; Matthew 22:24; Mark 12:19; Genesis 38:8–9; Ruth 1:12–13
- 6 Deuteronomy 21:19; Psalm 109:13; Psalm 9:5; Genesis 28:8–10; Ruth 4:1–7
- 7 Ruth 4:1–2; Ruth 4:5–6
- 8 Ruth 4:6
- 9 Ruth 4:7–8; Numbers 12:14; Isaiah 20:2; Isaiah 50:6; Mark 10:34
- 12 Deuteronomy 19:13; Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 19:21
- 13 Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11; Leviticus 19:35–37; Amos 8:5; Ezekiel 45:10–11
- 15 Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 5:33; Deuteronomy 11:9; Ephesians 6:3
- 16 Proverbs 11:1; Revelation 21:27; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Deuteronomy 22:5; Deuteronomy 18:12
- 17 Exodus 17:8–16; Numbers 25:17–18; Numbers 24:20
- 18 Psalm 36:1; Romans 3:18; Nehemiah 5:15; Proverbs 16:6; Nehemiah 5:9
- 19 Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 9:14; 1 Samuel 14:48; Exodus 17:16; Psalm 83:7–17
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And even if we were born from the brother of Him that is dead, yet are we named after the name of Him who is dead. We were begotten by the one, but begotten to the other.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
… illustrations from common things, and had said, "Who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk thereof?" then he brings in the Scriptures also, saying, "It is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn;" and again, "Even so hath the Lord ordained, that they which preach the gospel should …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
One ought also to observe this, that the law was that when a man died without seed, this man's brother should take to wife the wife of the dead man and raise up seed to his brother.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
The Apostle hath said, that of the preachers of the Gospel must be understood that which hath been written, "Of the ox treading out corn the mouth thou shalt not muzzle. Doth God care for oxen?" Therefore great are those rams, great the oxen.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
The wife of him that died childless was to be given to his brother. For since death was an incurable ill, and all was contrived for life's sake; He makes a law that the living brother should marry her, and should call the child that is born by the name of the dead, so that his house should not utterly …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)