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are an abomination to the LORD your God.
April 1 way as you were coming out of Egypt, how
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“Remember what Amalek did to you on the
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he met you on the way and attacked your rear
ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you
Deuteronomy 25:1–26:19
were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.
“If there is a dispute between men, and 19 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your
25 they come to court, that the judges may God has given you rest from your enemies all
judge them, and they justify the righteous and around, in the land which the LORD your God
condemn the wicked, then it shall be, if the is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that
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wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek
judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten from under heaven. You shall not forget.
in his presence, according to his guilt, with a “And it shall be, when you come into
certain number of blows. Forty blows he may 26 the land which the LORD your God is
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give him and no more, lest he should exceed giving you as an inheritance, and you possess
this and beat him with many blows above it and dwell in it, that you shall take some of
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these, and your brother be humiliated in your the first of all the produce of the ground, which
sight. you shall bring from your land that the LORD
4 “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads your God is giving you, and put it in a basket
out the grain. and go to the place where the LORD your God
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5 “If brothers dwell together, and one of them chooses to make His name abide. And you
dies and has no son, the widow of the dead shall go to the one who is priest in those days,
man shall not be married to a stranger outside and say to him, ‘I declare today to the LORD your
the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to God that I have come to the country which the
her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty LORD swore to our fathers to give us.’
of a husband’s brother to her. And it shall be 4 “Then the priest shall take the basket out
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that the firstborn son which she bears will suc- of your hand and set it down before the altar of
ceed to the name of his dead brother, that his the LORD your God. And you shall answer and
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name may not be blotted out of Israel. But if say before the LORD your God: ‘My father was
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the man does not want to take his brother’s a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to
wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and
to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother there he became a nation, great, mighty, and
refuses to raise up a name to his brother in populous. But the Egyptians mistreated us,
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Israel; he will not perform the duty of my hus- afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us.
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band’s brother.’ Then the elders of his city 7 Then we cried out to the LORD God of our
shall call him and speak to him. But if he fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and
stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to take looked on our affliction and our labor and our
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her,’ then his brother’s wife shall come to him oppression. So the LORD brought us out of
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in the presence of the elders, remove his san- Egypt with a mighty hand and with an out-
dal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer stretched arm, with great terror and with
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and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who signs and wonders. He has brought us to this
will not build up his brother’s house.’ And his place and has given us this land, “a land flow-
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name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of ing with milk and honey”; and now, behold, I
him who had his sandal removed.’ have brought the firstfruits of the land which
11 “If two men fight together, and the wife of you, O LORD, have given me.’
one draws near to rescue her husband from “Then you shall set it before the LORD your
the hand of the one attacking him, and puts God, and worship before the LORD your God.
out her hand and seizes him by the genitals, 11 So you shall rejoice in every good thing
12 then you shall cut off her hand; your eye which the LORD your God has given to you and
shall not pity her. your house, you and the Levite and the strang-
13 “You shall not have in your bag differing er who is among you.
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weights, a heavy and a light. You shall not 12 “When you have finished laying aside all
have in your house differing measures, a large the tithe of your increase in the third year—
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and a small. You shall have a perfect and just the year of tithing—and have given it to the
weight, a perfect and just measure, that your Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the
days may be lengthened in the land which the widow, so that they may eat within your gates
LORD your God is giving you. For all who do and be filled, then you shall say before the
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such things, all who behave unrighteously, LORD your God: ‘I have removed the holy tithe
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