1 If there is a controversy between men,
and they come to judgment and the judges
judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

2 It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy
to be beaten, that the judge shall cause
him to lie down and to be beaten before
his face, according to his wickedness, by
number.

3 He may sentence him to no more than
forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest
if he should give more and beat him more
than that many stripes, then your brother
will be degraded in your sight.

4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he
treads out the grain.

5 If brothers dwell together, and one of
them dies and has no son, the wife of the
dead shall not be married outside to a
stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and
perform the duty of a husband’s brother to
her.

6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she
bears shall succeed in the name of his
brother who is dead, that his name not be
blotted out of Israel.

7 If the man doesn’t want to take his
brother’s wife,thenhisbrother’s wife shall
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 a husband’s brother to
me.”

8 Thenthe elders of his city shall call him,
and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I
don’t want to take her,”

9 then his brother’s wife shall come to
him inthe presence ofthe elders, and loose
his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his
face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it
be done to the man who does not build up
his brother’s house.”