Deuteronomy 24:17–26:19

17 rThou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; snor take a widow’s raiment to pledge: 18 But tthou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. 19 uWhen thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot wa sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may xbless thee in all the work of thine hands. 20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, †thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not yglean it †afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 22 And zthou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

25 If there be a acontroversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they bshall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 cForty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. 4 dThou shalt not muzzle the ox when he †treadeth out the corn. 5 eIf brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her ||husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and ||perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth fshall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that ghis name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man like not to take his ||brother’s wife, then let his ||brother’s wife go up to the hgate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother. 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, iI like not to take her; 9 Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and kloose his shoe from off his foot, and lspit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not mbuild up his brother’s house. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, nthine eye shall not pity her. 13 Thou shalt not have in thy obag †divers pweights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thine house †divers pmeasures, a great and a small. 15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: qthat thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 16 For rall that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

17 sRemember what Amalek did unto thee tby the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; 18 How he met thee by the way, and usmote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast xfaint and weary; and he feared not God. 19 Therefore it shall be, ywhen the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt zblot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

26 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 aThat thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in ba basket, and shalt cgo unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our fathers for to give us. 4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God. 5 And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, dA Syrian eready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a ffew, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: 6 And gthe Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: 7 And hwhen we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: 8 And ithe Lord brought us forth out of Egypt kwith a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and kwith great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: 9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even la land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the Lord thy God, and worship before the Lord thy God: 11 And mthou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the ntithes of thine increase the third year, which is othe year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; 13 Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, pneither have I forgotten them: 14 qI have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. 15 rLook down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, la land that floweth with milk and honey. 16 This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 17 Thou hast savouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: 18 And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be this peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments; 19 And to make thee uhigh above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be xan holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.