If a quarrel [lawsuit] 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.

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.

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.

You may not muzzle [the mouth of] an ox while it threshes.

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.

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.

But if the man will not want to marry his sister-in-law; his sister-in-law must go up to the portal [of the court], to [before] the judges, and say, ‘‘My brother-in-law refuses [does not agree] to establish for his brother a name in Yisroel; he is unwilling to do perform levirate marriage with me.’’

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

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.’’

And it will be entitled in Yisroel, the house of the divestiture of the shoe.

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 place of his shame],

You shall sever her hand; you are not to have compassion.

You are not to have for yourself in your pouch varying weight-stones, large and small.

You shall not have in your house varying measures, large and small.

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.

Because [distanced from before] Adonoy, your God’s abomination, are all who do these [things]; all who do falsehood.

Remember what Amalek perpetrated against you on the way when you were going out of Egypt.

When they chanced upon [overtook] you en route struck down [killed] your appendage—all the feeble ones behind you—and you were exhausted and wearied, and they had no fear of [before] God.

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 [males] of Amalek from beneath the sky; do not forget.