Deuteronomy Chapter 25

Controversy between men

25:1 If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, so that [the judges ] may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
25:2 And it shall be, if the wicked man [be] worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, [and] not exceed unless, [if] he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to y’all .
25:4 You will not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].

Married man dies without child


25:5 If brothers stay together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother to her.
25:6 And it shall be, [that] the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother [which is] dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
25:7 And if the man like not 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 to his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.
25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him and [if] he stand [to it], and say, I like not to take her;
25:9 Then shall his brother’s wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother’s house.
25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has his shoe loosed.

The immodest woman

25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets
25:12 Then you will cut off her hand, your eye shall not pity [her].

Unjust weights

25:13 You will not have in your bag several weights, a great and a small.
25:14 You will not have in your house several measures, a great and a small.
25:15 [But] you will have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure will you have that your days may be lengthened in the land which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
gives y’all .
25:16 For all that do such things, [and] all that do unrighteously, [are] an abomination to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
.
25:17 Remember what Amalek (meaning dweller in a valley) did to you on the roadבַּדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: deh’-rek way, road, distance, journey, manner For more info click here
, when y’all were coming out of Egypt ;
25:18 How he met y’all on the roadדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration: dereḵ Pronunciation: deh’-rek way, road, distance, journey, manner For more info click here
, and struck y’all from behind, [even] all [that were] feeble behind y’all , when you [were] faint and weary ; and he didn’t fear Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here
.
25:19 Then it shall be, when YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
has given y’all rest from your enemies all around , in the land that YAHWEH יְהֹוָה
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here
your Elohim אֱלֹהֶיךָ
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Construct root word Elohim for more info on the word click here
gives y’all [for] an inheritance to possess it, [that] you will erase the memory of Amalek from under the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִם
Pronunciation: hah’-shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here
; you will not forget [it].

 

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