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He may beat him with forty lashes, and he shall not do more than these, so that he will not beat more in addition to these many blows,[a] and your countryman[b] would be[c] degraded before your eyes.

“You shall not muzzle an ox when he is threshing.[d]

“When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a man of another family;[e] her brother-in-law shall have sex with her,[f] and he shall take her to himself[g] as a wife, and he shall perform his duty as a brother-in-law with respect to her.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 25:3 Hebrew “blow”
  2. Deuteronomy 25:3 Or “brother”
  3. Deuteronomy 25:3 Hebrew “is”
  4. Deuteronomy 25:4 Literally “at his threshing”
  5. Deuteronomy 25:5 Others: “strange man,” “man outside the family” (NEB)
  6. Deuteronomy 25:5 Literally “shall go to her”
  7. Deuteronomy 25:5 Literally “to/for him”