## Deuteronomy Chapter 25

###### Deuteronomy 25:1
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כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה רִיב֙ בֵּ֣ין אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְנִגְּשׁ֥וּ אֶל־הַמִּשְׁפָּ֖ט וּשְׁפָט֑וּם וְהִצְדִּ֙יקוּ֙ אֶת־הַצַּדִּ֔יק וְהִרְשִׁ֖יעוּ אֶת־הָרָשָֽׁע׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
If a quarrel should occur among men and they bring it to court and they judge them and they determine who is righteous and they convict the villain.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If there be a controversy between men, and
				they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If there be a quarrel among men, and they draw near to judgment, [as, in the end, they will be constrained to do, peace not resulting from a quarrel], and they judge them, and they vindicate the righteous one, and they incriminate the wicked one,


###### Deuteronomy 25:2
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וְהָיָ֛ה אִם־בִּ֥ן הַכּ֖וֹת הָרָשָׁ֑ע וְהִפִּיל֤וֹ הַשֹּׁפֵט֙ וְהִכָּ֣הוּ לְפָנָ֔יו כְּדֵ֥י רִשְׁעָת֖וֹ בְּמִסְפָּֽר׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Should the wicked one deserve flogging, the judge shall incline him and have him flogged before him in the amount befitting his crime, with the number near.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and he shall be beaten in his presence, according to his fault, by a certain number.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then it shall be, if the wicked one is liable to stripes [(as he is when he is in violation of a negative commandment which is unlinked to a (remedial) positive commandment, (like 4)], that the judge shall bend him down [(he receives stripes neither standing nor sitting, but bent over)] and he shall smite him on his front according to his (one) wickedness [i.e., one third of thirty-nine (and, on his back, two thirds)] in number (leading to)


###### Deuteronomy 25:3
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אַרְבָּעִ֥ים יַכֶּ֖נּוּ לֹ֣א יֹסִ֑יף פֶּן־יֹסִ֨יף לְהַכֹּת֤וֹ עַל־אֵ֙לֶּה֙ מַכָּ֣ה רַבָּ֔ה וְנִקְלָ֥ה אָחִ֖יךָ לְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Forty is he to have him flogged, he may not add; lest he additionally flog him over these, a great flogging, when your brother will be slighted before you.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother shall be thus made vile before thee.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
forty [i.e., thirty-nine] shall he smite him, and not more [(an exhortation against striking one's neighbor)]; lest he smite him more than these, a great blow, and your brother be demeaned before your eyes. [All the day he is called "wicked"; once he has been smitten, he is called "your brother."]


###### Deuteronomy 25:4
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לֹא־תַחְסֹ֥ם שׁ֖וֹר בְּדִישֽׁוֹ׃{ס}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
You may not muzzle an ox while it threshes.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You shall not muzzle an ox [or any other beast, animal, or bird being worked where food obtains. (A man is not included in the interdict against muzzling)] in its threshing [(All like "threshing" is included, thus excluding foods which do not grow from the ground, etc.)]


###### Deuteronomy 25:5
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כִּֽי־יֵשְׁב֨וּ אַחִ֜ים יַחְדָּ֗ו וּמֵ֨ת אַחַ֤ד מֵהֶם֙ וּבֵ֣ן אֵֽין־ל֔וֹ לֹֽא־תִהְיֶ֧ה אֵֽשֶׁת־הַמֵּ֛ת הַח֖וּצָה לְאִ֣ישׁ זָ֑ר יְבָמָהּ֙ יָבֹ֣א עָלֶ֔יהָ וּלְקָחָ֥הּ ל֛וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֖ה וְיִבְּמָֽהּ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
If brothers reside together, and one of them dies having no son, let the wife of the dead man not marry outside [the family] to a strange man; her brother-in-law will consummate with her thus marrying her to be his wife, and perform levirate marriage with her.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry abroad to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
When brothers dwell together [i.e., when they had dwelt concurrently in the world (This excludes from yibum (levirate marriage) the wife of one's brother who had never been "in his world"). They must also be "together" vis-à-vis inheritance (This excludes from yibum the wife of one's maternal brother)], and one of them dies, and he has no son [or daughter, or son of a son or daughter of a son, or son of a daughter or daughter of a daughter], then the wife of the dead one shall not be outside to a strange man. Her levir (her husband's brother) shall come upon her and take her for himself as a wife, and he shall have her in levirate marriage.


###### Deuteronomy 25:6
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וְהָיָ֗ה הַבְּכוֹר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֵּלֵ֔ד יָק֕וּם עַל־שֵׁ֥ם אָחִ֖יו הַמֵּ֑ת וְלֹֽא־יִמָּחֶ֥ה שְׁמ֖וֹ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
It shall be that the firstborn, when she is capable of bearing children, shall be established in place of his deceased brother, so that his name may not be obliterated from Yisroel.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not wiped out in Yisra᾽el.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And it shall be, the first-born [i.e., the eldest of the brothers] (in an instance) where she can bear [(a woman who cannot bear is excluded from yibum)], he shall be invested in the name of his dead brother [with the latter's inheritance in his father's property], and his name shall not be wiped out of Israel. [(This excludes from yibum the wife of a saris (one who is impotent), whose name is already "wiped out.")


###### Deuteronomy 25:7
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וְאִם־לֹ֤א יַחְפֹּץ֙ הָאִ֔ישׁ לָקַ֖חַת אֶת־יְבִמְתּ֑וֹ וְעָלְתָה֩ יְבִמְתּ֨וֹ הַשַּׁ֜עְרָה אֶל־הַזְּקֵנִ֗ים וְאָֽמְרָה֙ מֵאֵ֨ן יְבָמִ֜י לְהָקִ֨ים לְאָחִ֥יו שֵׁם֙ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א אָבָ֖ה יַבְּמִֽי׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
But if the man will not want to marry his sister-in-law; his sister-in-law must go up to the portal, to the judges, and say, ‘‘My brother-in-law refuses to establish for his brother a name in Yisroel; he is unwilling to do perform levirate marriage with me.’’

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
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 Yisra᾽el, he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And if the man does not desire to take his yevamah, then his yevamah shall go up to the gate [of beth-din] to the elders, and she shall say: My yavam does not desire to invest for his brother a name in Israel; he does not desire to have me in yibum.


###### Deuteronomy 25:8
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וְקָֽרְאוּ־ל֥וֹ זִקְנֵי־עִיר֖וֹ וְדִבְּר֣וּ אֵלָ֑יו וְעָמַ֣ד וְאָמַ֔ר לֹ֥א חָפַ֖צְתִּי לְקַחְתָּֽהּ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
The judges of his city will call him and converse with him. He shall stand and say, ‘‘I do not want to marry her.’’

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and he shall stand, and say, I do not wish to take her;

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then the elders of his city shall call to him and they shall speak to him; and he shall stand up and say [in the holy tongue]: I did not desire to take her.


###### Deuteronomy 25:9
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וְנִגְּשָׁ֨ה יְבִמְתּ֣וֹ אֵלָיו֮ לְעֵינֵ֣י הַזְּקֵנִים֒ וְחָלְצָ֤ה נַעֲלוֹ֙ מֵעַ֣ל רַגְל֔וֹ וְיָרְקָ֖ה בְּפָנָ֑יו וְעָֽנְתָה֙ וְאָ֣מְרָ֔ה כָּ֚כָה יֵעָשֶׂ֣ה לָאִ֔ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יִבְנֶ֖ה אֶת־בֵּ֥ית אָחִֽיו׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
And his sister-in-law will approach him in the sight of the judges, and she will remove his shoe from upon his foot, and spit before him; and she will say aloud, ‘‘This is done to the man who will not build his brother’s family.’’

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
then shall his brother’s wife approach 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, Thus shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother’s house.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then his yevamah shall draw near to him before the eyes of the elders, and she shall remove his shoe from his foot, and she shall spit before his face [on the ground], and she shall answer and say [in the holy tongue]: Thus shall it be done with the man who will not build [(he may not perform yibum at a later date)] the house of his brother.


###### Deuteronomy 25:10
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וְנִקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל בֵּ֖ית חֲל֥וּץ הַנָּֽעַל׃{ס}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
And it will be entitled in Yisroel, the house of the divestiture of the shoe.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
And his name shall be called in Yisra᾽el, The house of him that had his shoe loosed.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And his name shall be called in Israel: "the house (of him) chalutz hana'al" ("whose shoe was removed"). [It is a mitzvah for all who are standing there to say: "chalutz hana'al."]


###### Deuteronomy 25:11
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כִּֽי־יִנָּצ֨וּ אֲנָשִׁ֤ים יַחְדָּו֙ אִ֣ישׁ וְאָחִ֔יו וְקָֽרְבָה֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת הָֽאֶחָ֔ד לְהַצִּ֥יל אֶת־אִישָׁ֖הּ מִיַּ֣ד מַכֵּ֑הוּ וְשָׁלְחָ֣ה יָדָ֔הּ וְהֶחֱזִ֖יקָה בִּמְבֻשָֽׁיו׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
If men engage in an altercation—a man and his brother—and the wife of one approaches to save her husband from his assailant, and she puts out her hand and grasps his genitals,

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and putting out her hand, she takes hold of his private parts:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
If men strive together, a man and his brother, and the wife of one draw near to rescue her husband from his assailant [(They are bound to come to blows — peace does not result from strife)], and she send forth her hand and seize his privy parts,


###### Deuteronomy 25:12
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וְקַצֹּתָ֖ה אֶת־כַּפָּ֑הּ לֹ֥א תָח֖וֹס עֵינֶֽךָ׃{ס}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
You shall sever her hand; you are not to have compassion.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
then thou shalt cut off her hand, thy eye shall not pity her.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Then you shall "cut off her hand" [(monetary compensation (relative to the one shaming and the one shamed)]; you shall not have pity.


###### Deuteronomy 25:13
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לֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֛ בְּכִֽיסְךָ֖ אֶ֣בֶן וָאָ֑בֶן גְּדוֹלָ֖ה וּקְטַנָּֽה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
You are not to have for yourself in your pouch varying weight-stones, large and small.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You shall not have [(If you have false weights, "you shall not have" anything!)] in your bag a stone and a stone [i.e., weights], a large and a small, [the large "contradicting" the small (buying with the large and selling with the small)].


###### Deuteronomy 25:14
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לֹא־יִהְיֶ֥ה לְךָ֛ בְּבֵיתְךָ֖ אֵיפָ֣ה וְאֵיפָ֑ה גְּדוֹלָ֖ה וּקְטַנָּֽה׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
You shall not have in your house varying measures, large and small.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a great and a small.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
You shall not have in your house a measure and a measure, large and small.


###### Deuteronomy 25:15
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אֶ֣בֶן שְׁלֵמָ֤ה וָצֶ֙דֶק֙ יִֽהְיֶה־לָּ֔ךְ אֵיפָ֧ה שְׁלֵמָ֛ה וָצֶ֖דֶק יִֽהְיֶה־לָּ֑ךְ לְמַ֙עַן֙ יַאֲרִ֣יכוּ יָמֶ֔יךָ עַ֚ל הָֽאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לָֽךְ׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
A fully accurate, just weight, you shall have, you are to have whole and honest measures; in order that you live long on the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
[If you have] a whole and just stone, you shall have [much]; a whole and just measure, you shall have, so that your days be prolonged on the land that the L-rd your G-d gives to you.


###### Deuteronomy 25:16
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כִּ֧י תוֹעֲבַ֛ת יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ כׇּל־עֹ֣שֵׂה אֵ֑לֶּה כֹּ֖ל עֹ֥שֵׂה עָֽוֶל׃{פ}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Because Adonoy, your God’s abomination, are all who do these [things]; all who do falsehood.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
For the abomination of the L-rd your G-d are all who do these, all who do wrong.


###### Deuteronomy 25:17
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זָכ֕וֹר אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֥ה לְךָ֖ עֲמָלֵ֑ק בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ בְּצֵאתְכֶ֥ם מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
Remember what Amalek perpetrated against you on the way when you were going out of Egypt.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Remember what ῾Amaleq did to thee by the way, when you were come out of Miżrayim:

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Remember what Amalek did to you on the way when you went out of Egypt [(If you falsify weights and measures, apprehend the onset of the foe.)]


###### Deuteronomy 25:18
[Deuteronomy 25:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/25:18)

אֲשֶׁ֨ר קָֽרְךָ֜ בַּדֶּ֗רֶךְ וַיְזַנֵּ֤ב בְּךָ֙ כׇּל־הַנֶּחֱשָׁלִ֣ים אַֽחֲרֶ֔יךָ וְאַתָּ֖ה עָיֵ֣ף וְיָגֵ֑עַ וְלֹ֥א יָרֵ֖א אֱלֹהִֽים׃

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
When they chanced upon you en route struck down your appendage—all the feeble ones behind you—and you were exhausted and wearied, and they had no fear of God.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
Who chanced upon you on the way and cut off [the membrums] from you [and cast them heavenwards], (of) all who were faint [from sin] behind you, [the clouds of glory having rejected them], and you were faint [from thirst] and weary [with traveling], and he [Amalek] did not fear G-d [to desist from attacking you].


###### Deuteronomy 25:19
[Deuteronomy 25:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Deuteronomy/r/25:19)

וְהָיָ֡ה בְּהָנִ֣יחַ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֣יךָ׀לְ֠ךָ֠ מִכׇּל־אֹ֨יְבֶ֜יךָ מִסָּבִ֗יב בָּאָ֙רֶץ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְהֹוָה־אֱ֠לֹהֶ֠יךָ נֹתֵ֨ן לְךָ֤ נַחֲלָה֙ לְרִשְׁתָּ֔הּ תִּמְחֶה֙ אֶת־זֵ֣כֶר עֲמָלֵ֔ק מִתַּ֖חַת הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם לֹ֖א תִּשְׁכָּֽח׃{פ}

**Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
When Adonoy, your God, has given you repose from all your enemies around, in the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you as territory to inherit, you shall obliterate the memory of Amalek from beneath the sky; do not forget.

**The Koren Jerusalem Bible:**
Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God has given thee rest from all thy enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of ῾Amaleq from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.

**The Rashi chumash by Rabbi Shraga Silverstein:**
And it shall be, when the L-rd your G-d gives you repose from all your enemies roundabout in the land that the L-rd your G-d gives to you as an inheritance to inherit it, that you shall wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens, [(so that not even a beast remain of them of which it might be said: "This belonged to Amalek.")] You shall not forget.