Deuteronomy 25-26New King James Version (NKJV)
25 “If there is a dispute between men, and they
come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they
justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, 2 then
it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause
him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a
certain number of blows. 3 Forty blows he may give
him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with
many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight.
4 “You shall not muzzle an ox while
it treads out the grain.
Marriage Duty of the Surviving Brother
5 “If brothers dwell together, and
one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to
a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go
in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to
her. 6 And it shall be that the
firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother,
that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. 7 But
if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s
wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to
raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my
husband’s brother.’ 8 Then the elders of his city
shall call him and speak to him. But if he stands firm and
says, ‘I do not want to take her,’ 9 then his
brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his
sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be
done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house.’ 10 And
his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal
removed.’
Miscellaneous Laws
11 “If two men fight
together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of
the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the
genitals, 12 then you shall cut off her hand; your
eye shall not pity her.
13 “You shall not have in your bag
differing weights, a heavy and a light. 14 You
shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You
shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your
days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord your God is giving
you. 16 For all who do such things, all who behave
unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord your
God.
Destroy the Amalekites
17 “Remember what Amalek did to you
on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, 18 how
he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your
rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear
God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when
the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in
the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an
inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek
from under heaven. You shall not forget.
Offerings of Firstfruits and Tithes
26 “And it shall be, when you come into the land
which the Lord your God is giving you as an
inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, 2 that
you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you
shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and
put it in a basket and go to the place where
the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. 3 And
you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I declare
today to the Lord your[a] God that I have come
to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’
4 “Then the priest shall take the
basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of
the Lord your God. 5 And you shall answer
and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was a
Syrian,[b] about to perish, and
he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a
nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6 But the
Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. 7 Then
we cried out to the Lord God of our fathers, and
the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor
and our oppression. 8 So the Lord brought
us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great
terror and with signs and wonders. 9 He has brought
us to this place and has given us this land, “a land flowing with milk and
honey”;[c] 10 and
now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land which you, O Lord,
have given me.’
“Then you shall set it before the Lord your God,
and worship before the Lord your God. 11 So
you shall rejoice in every good thing which
the Lord your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite
and the stranger who is among you.
12 “When you have finished laying
aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year—the year of tithing—and
have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and
the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled, 13 then
you shall say before the Lord your God: ‘I have removed the
holy tithe from my house, and also have given
them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to
all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your
commandments, nor have I forgotten them. 14 I
have not eaten any of it when in mourning, nor have I removed any of
it for an unclean use, nor given any of it
for the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and have
done according to all that You have commanded me. 15 Look
down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and
the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, “a land
flowing with milk and honey.”’[d]
A Special People of God
16 “This day the Lord your
God commands you to observe these statutes and judgments; therefore you shall
be careful to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 Today
you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk
in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and
that you will obey His voice. 18 Also today
the Lord has proclaimed you to be His special people, just as He
promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, 19 and
that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in
name, and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to
the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”
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