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Deuteronomy 25:1 (show verse)
If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.
Deuteronomy 25:2 (show verse)
Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.
Deuteronomy 25:3 (show verse)
The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.
Beating » As a punishment
Forty » Stripes » Administered in punishing criminals
Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging
Punishments » Beating
Punishments » Stripes » Mutilations » Forty
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Scourging
Scourging » 40 stripes
The Nation » Punishment » Beating
Forty » Stripes » Administered in punishing criminals
Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging
Punishments » Beating
Punishments » Stripes » Mutilations » Forty
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Scourging
Scourging » 40 stripes
The Nation » Punishment » Beating
Deuteronomy 25:4 (show verse)
You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Threshing
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
Animals » God's care of
Animals » Laws concerning
Beasts » Domestic » To be taken care of
Bullock (ox) » Laws concerning » Not to be muzzled, when treading grain
Bullock (ox) » Uses of » For treading out grain
Oxen » Laws respecting » Not to be muzzled when treading out the corn
Threshing » Cattle employed in, not to be muzzled
Threshing » By treading
Agriculture or husbandry » Beasts used in » Oxen
Animals » God's care of
Animals » Laws concerning
Beasts » Domestic » To be taken care of
Bullock (ox) » Laws concerning » Not to be muzzled, when treading grain
Bullock (ox) » Uses of » For treading out grain
Oxen » Laws respecting » Not to be muzzled when treading out the corn
Threshing » Cattle employed in, not to be muzzled
Threshing » By treading
Deuteronomy 25:5 (show verse)
If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man's wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband's brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
Brother » Brother's widow. » Law concerning levirate marriage of
the First-born » Privileges of » In case of death the next brother to raise up seed to
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Marriage » Of kinsman's widow
Marriage » The jews » Obliged to contract with a brother's wife who died without seed
Strangers » Marriage with, forbidden
Widow's » Laws respecting » When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin
the First-born » Privileges of » In case of death the next brother to raise up seed to
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Marriage » Of kinsman's widow
Marriage » The jews » Obliged to contract with a brother's wife who died without seed
Strangers » Marriage with, forbidden
Widow's » Laws respecting » When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin
Deuteronomy 25:6 (show verse)
Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.
Brother » Brother's widow. » Law concerning levirate marriage of
the First-born » Privileges of » In case of death the next brother to raise up seed to
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Widow's » Laws respecting » When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin
the First-born » Privileges of » In case of death the next brother to raise up seed to
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Widow's » Laws respecting » When left childless, to be married by their husband's nearest of kin
Deuteronomy 25:7 (show verse)
But if the man does not want to marry his brother's widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!"
Brother » Brother's widow. » Law concerning levirate marriage of
Court » Civil » The gates of cities
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Places of holding courts
Courts of justice » Judges of » Called elders
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Court » Civil » The gates of cities
Courts » Miscellaneous topics relating to courts and judicial procedure » Places of holding courts
Courts of justice » Judges of » Called elders
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Deuteronomy 25:8 (show verse)
Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, "I don't want to marry her,"
Deuteronomy 25:9 (show verse)
then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then respond, "Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother's family line!"
Brother » Brother's widow. » Law concerning levirate marriage of
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Shoe » Loosened as a sign of refusal to observe the levirate marriage
Shoes » Customs connected with » A man who refused to marry a deceased brother's wife disgraced by pulling off his shoes
Spitting » In the face, as an indignity
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Shoe » Loosened as a sign of refusal to observe the levirate marriage
Shoes » Customs connected with » A man who refused to marry a deceased brother's wife disgraced by pulling off his shoes
Spitting » In the face, as an indignity
Deuteronomy 25:10 (show verse)
His family name will be referred to in Israel as "the family of the one whose sandal was removed."
Brother » Brother's widow. » Law concerning levirate marriage of
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Shoes » Customs connected with » A man who refused to marry a deceased brother's wife disgraced by pulling off his shoes
Inheritance » Provisions for inheritance under levirate marriages
Marriage » Levirate (the brother required to marry a brother's widow)
Shoes » Customs connected with » A man who refused to marry a deceased brother's wife disgraced by pulling off his shoes
Deuteronomy 25:11 (show verse)
If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
Deuteronomy 25:12 (show verse)
then you must cut off her hand -- do not pity her.
Deuteronomy 25:13 (show verse)
You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Unjust weights and measures
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Dishonesty » Condemned
Measure » Must be just
Measures » Just weights
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Weights » Must be just
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
Business life » Dishonesty » Condemned
Business life » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Dishonesty » Condemned
Measure » Must be just
Measures » Just weights
Social duties » Mercifulness » Of giving just weights
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
Virtues » Fidelity » Giving of just weights
Weights » Troy weights a gerah = 1/50 oz » 10 gerahs = 1 bekah = 1/5 oz
Weights » Must be just
Weights » The jews » Forbidden to have divers
Deuteronomy 25:14 (show verse)
You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.
Deuteronomy 25:15 (show verse)
You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Unjust weights and measures
Business life » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Honesty » In business encouraged
Justice » To be done » In buying and selling
Measure » Must be just
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
Social duties » Fidelity in business » Honesty in business, encouraged
Virtues » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Weights » Must be just
Business life » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Honesty » In business encouraged
Justice » To be done » In buying and selling
Measure » Must be just
Measures » The jews not to be unjust in
Social duties » Fidelity in business » Honesty in business, encouraged
Virtues » Fidelity » Honesty, encouraged
Weights » Must be just
Deuteronomy 25:16 (show verse)
For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 25:17 (show verse)
Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt,
Deuteronomy 25:18 (show verse)
how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.
Deuteronomy 25:19 (show verse)
So when the Lord your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he is giving you as an inheritance, you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven -- do not forget!