1 When there is a dispute between men and they bring their case before the court, the judges shall acquit the righteous {tsaddik: legally innocent} and condemn the wicked {rasha: morally corrupt}.
2 And it shall be, if the guilty one {harasha: criminally guilty} is subject to the beating {hakkot: judicial punishment}, then the judge shall cause him to lie down and strike him before him according to the measure of his guilt, by number.
3 He may strike him forty {arba'im: legal maximum} times, but he must not exceed; lest, if he should strike him beyond these blows, your brother will be dishonored {niklah: public disgrace} before your eyes.
4 You shall not muzzle an ox{shor: work animal} while it is threshing{disho: grain processing}.
5 When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the deceased {eshet-ha-met: widow of deceased} must not marry a stranger; her brother-in-law {yevamah: levirate husband} shall marry her and perform his duty.
6 And it shall be that the firstborn, whom she bears, shall rise up {yakum: serve as heir} for the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel {Yisrael: covenant community}.
7 And if the man does not desire to take his brother’s widow, then his brother’s widow shall go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, “My brother-in-law refuses {me’ein: formal refusal} to raise up a name {shem: family legacy} for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform levirate marriage with me.”
8 Then the elders {ziknei: community leaders} of his city will call him and speak to him; and he will stand and say, “I do not desire {chafatzti: willingly choose} to take her.”
9 Then his brother’s widow {yevimto: brother’s widow} shall approach him before the elders and remove his sandal from his foot and spit in his face, and she shall say, “Thus shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house {beit: family line}.”
10 And his name shall be called in Israel “The House {beit: household title} of the Unsandaled {khaluts: sandal removed}.”
11 If men fight together {yachdav: simultaneous action}, one man and his brother, and the wife of one approaches to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs him by his private parts {bimvushav: intimate region}.
12 And you shall cut off her hand {kappah: palm and wrist}; your eye {einecha: seat of compassion} must not show pity.
13 There shall not be in your bag {bekiskha: trading pouch} two weight-stones {even va’aven: merchant’s weights}—one large and one small.
14 You shall not have two differing ephah {eifah: unit of dry measure} measures in your house {beitkha: household domain}—one large and one small.
15 You must have a complete and just stone {even: standard weight} and a complete and just ephah so that your days may be prolonged on the land which the LORD your God {YHWH Elohekha, Covenant Provider} is giving you.
16 For all who do these things, and all who do injustice, are an abomination {toevat: detestable practice} to the LORD your God {YHWH Eloheikha, Holy Judge}.
17 Remember what Amalek did to you on the way {baderekh: travel route}, when you came out from Egypt {mimitzrayim: land of bondage}.
18 Who met you on the way and attacked from behind all the stragglers behind you while you were weary {ayef: faint with exhaustion} and exhausted, and he did not fear God {Elohim, Moral Arbiter}.
19 And it shall be, when the LORD your God {YHWH Eloheikha, Covenant Defender} gives you rest from all your enemies surrounding you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance {nachalah: divinely granted possession} to possess, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; do not forget.