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, 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. 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. You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. 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 family.
Her husband's brother shall go into her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and it shall be 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. But if the man does not want to take his brother's wife and 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. Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, but he stands firm and says, I do not want to take her, and 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 it shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house.
And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of him who had his sandal removed. His 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. He shall cut off her hand, and your eyes shall not pitier. He shall not have in your bag different weights, a heavy weight, and a light.
He shall not have in your house different measures, a large and small. He 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. For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are in abomination to the Lord your God. Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, 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.
Therefore, shall be, when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, and the land which the Lord your God is giving you is inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget. And it shall be, when you come into the land which the Lord your God has given you is inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, 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 the basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to make his name abide. And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days and say to him, I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.
And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God. And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God, my Father was Assyrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and to out there few in number. And there he became a nation, great, mighty and populous. But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.
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. 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. He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and now behold, I brought the first fruits 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.
So you shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you, in your house, you, and the Levite, and the stranger who is among you. When you finish 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. 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, would you have commanded me? I have not transgressed your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.
I have not eaten any of it, when in the morning, nor have I removed any of it for an unclean use, nor have I 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. Look down from your holy habitation from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and all the land which you have given us, just as your sword to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey. 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.
Today you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways to keep his statutes, his commandments, and his judgments, and that you will obey his voice. Also today the Lord has proclaimed you to be his special people, just as he promises you that you that you should keep all his commandments, 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. Now Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people saying, keep all the commandments which I command you today, and it shall be on the day when you cross over the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, that you shall set up for yourselves large stones and whitewashed them with lime. You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have crossed over, that you may enter the land which the Lord your God is giving you, the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord God of your fathers promised you.
There forth shall be when you have crossed over the Jordan, that on Mount of all you shall set up these stones which I command you today, and you shall whitewashed them with lime. And there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God and altar of stones. You shall not use an iron tool on them. You shall build with whole stones on the altar of the Lord your God, and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.
You shall offer peace offerings, and shall eat there and rejoice before the Lord your God. You shall write very plainly on the stones all the words of this law. Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel saying, take heed and listen, O Israel, this day you have become the people of the Lord your God. Therefore you shall obey the voice of the Lord your God, and observe his commandments and his statutes which I command you today.
And Moses commanded the people on the same day saying, You shall stand on Mount Gerazim to bless the people when you have crossed over the Jordan. And the Levite, Judah, Isekar, Joseph, and Benjamin. And these shall stand on Mount Evolve to curse, Ruben, Gad, Asher, Zebulon, Dan, and Naphtali. And the Levite shall speak with a loud voice and say to all the men of Israel, Curse is the one who makes a carved or molded image and abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsmen, and sets it up in secret.
And all the people shall say, Amen. Curse is the one who treats his father or mother with contempt, and all the people shall say, Amen. Curse is the one who moves his neighbor's landmark, and all the people shall say, Amen. Curse is the one who makes a blind to wander off the road, and all the people shall say, Amen.
Curse is the one who perverts the justice to do the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. Curse is the one who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's bed. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Curse is the one who lies with any kind of animal. And all the people shall say, Amen. Curse is the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Curse is the one who lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen. Curse is the one who attacks his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Curse is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. Curse is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law by observing them. And all the people shall say, Amen.