(A)Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother (B)be humiliated in your sight.

(C)“You shall not muzzle an ox while it [a]treads out the grain.

Marriage Duty of the Surviving Brother

(D)“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 25:4 threshes

but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes.(A) If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.(B)

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.(C)

If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.(D)

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