Deuteronomy · Free Bible Version
Deuteronomy 25 Free Bible Version
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1 If there is some legal argument between two people, they are to go to court to have the case judged, in order to justify the one who is right and condemn the one who is wrong.
1 If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
2 If the person who is guilty is sentenced to be flogged, the judge shall order them to lie down and be flogged before him with the number of lashes the crime deserves.
2 It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
3 They are not to receive more than forty lashes. More than that would be to publicly humiliate them.
3 He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.
4 Don't muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
5 When two brothers live near to each other and one of them dies without having a son, the widow is not to marry a stranger outside the family. Her husband's brother is to marry her and sleep with her, fulfilling the requirements of a brother-in-law to provide her with children.
5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
6 The first son she has will be named after the dead brother, so that his name won't be forgotten in Israel.
6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
7 However, if the man refuses to marry his brother's widow, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and tell them, “My husband's brother is refusing to keep his brother's name alive in Israel. He doesn't want to perform the requirements of a brother-in-law for me.”
7 If the man doesn’t want 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 raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
8 The town elders are to summon him and talk with him. If he continues to refuse and says, “I don't want to marry her,”
8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
9 his brother's widow is to confront him in the presence of the elders, pull off his sandal, spit in his face, and announce, “This is what happens to the man who refuses to keep his brother's family name alive.”
9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”
10 From then on his family name in Israel will be called “The Family of the Pulled-off Sandal.”
10 His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.”
11 If two men are fighting, and one of their wives intervenes to save her husband from being beaten, and she grabs hold of the attacker's genitals,
11 When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts,
12 you are to cut her hand off. Don't show her any mercy.
12 then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
13 Don't have two different measuring weights in your bag, one that's heavy and one that's light.
13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.
14 Don't have two different measuring containers in your house, one that's large and one that's small.
14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.
15 Make sure you always use accurate and true weights and measures. In that way you will have long lives in the country the Lord your God is giving you.
15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
16 Anyone who doesn't do so and cheats like this offends the Lord your God.
16 For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way out of Egypt.
17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt,
18 They came out to confront you when you were tired and weary from your journey, and they attacked all those of you who were lagging behind. They didn't have any respect for God.
18 how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.
19 Once the Lord your God gives you peace after fighting your enemies in the country that he's giving you to take over and own, you are to wipe out even the memory of the Amalekites from the earth. Don't forget!
19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.
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)