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Text -- Deuteronomy 25:1-19 (NET)
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25:1 If controversy arises between people , they should go to court for judgment . When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty .
25:2 Then , if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating , the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves .
25:3 The judge may sentence him to forty blows , but no more . If he is struck with more than these , you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt .
25:4 You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.
Respect for the Sanctity of Others
25:5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son , the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law .
25:6 Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother , thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel .
25:7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow , then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say , “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel ; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”
25:8 Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists , saying , “I don’t want to marry her,”
25:9 then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders , remove his sandal from his foot , and spit in his face . She will then respond , “Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line !”
25:10 His family name will be referred to in Israel as “the family of the one whose sandal was removed .”
25:11 If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight , and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker , and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals ,
25:12 then you must cut off her hand – do not pity her.
25:13 You must not have in your bag different stone weights , a heavy and a light one.
25:14 You must not have in your house different measuring containers , a large and a small one.
25:15 You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container , so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.
25:16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God .
Treatment of the Amalekites
25:17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you on your way from Egypt ,
25:18 how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired ; they were unafraid of God .
25:19 So when the Lord your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he is giving you as an inheritance , you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven – do not forget !
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Moses |
LAW OF MOSES |
Justice |
Widow |
SAUL |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Abomination |
Marriage |
HUSBAND'S BROTHER |
HEIR |
Inheritance |
RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY |
Measure |
Levirate Law |
Brother |
Judge |
GATE |
Honesty |
Government |
Scourging |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Deu 25:1; Deu 25:1; Deu 25:1; Deu 25:1; Deu 25:2; Deu 25:2; Deu 25:2; Deu 25:3; Deu 25:3; Deu 25:3; Deu 25:4; Deu 25:5; Deu 25:5; Deu 25:6; Deu 25:6; Deu 25:7; Deu 25:9; Deu 25:9; Deu 25:10; Deu 25:10; Deu 25:10; Deu 25:11; Deu 25:11; Deu 25:13; Deu 25:13; Deu 25:14; Deu 25:15; Deu 25:16; Deu 25:17; Deu 25:18; Deu 25:19; Deu 25:19; Deu 25:19; Deu 25:19
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NET Notes: Deu 25:3 Heb “your brothers” but not limited only to an actual sibling; cf. NAB) “your kinsman”; NRSV, NLT “your neighbor.”
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NET Notes: Deu 25:5 This is the so-called “levirate” custom (from the Latin term levir, “brother-in-law”), an ancient provision whereby a man who ...
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NET Notes: Deu 25:7 Heb “want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister in law.” In the second instance the pronoun (“she”) has been used in the ...
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NET Notes: Deu 25:9 Heb “build the house of his brother”; TEV “refuses to give his brother a descendant”; NLT “refuses to raise up a son for...
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NET Notes: Deu 25:11 Heb “shameful parts.” Besides the inherent indelicacy of what she has done, the woman has also threatened the progenitive capacity of the ...
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NET Notes: Deu 25:13 Heb “a large and a small,” but since the issue is the weight, “a heavy and a light one” conveys the idea better in English.
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NET Notes: Deu 25:14 Heb “an ephah and an ephah.” An ephah refers to a unit of dry measure roughly equivalent to five U.S. gallons (just under 20 liters). On t...
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NET Notes: Deu 25:16 The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) speaks of att...
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NET Notes: Deu 25:17 Heb “what Amalek” (so NAB, NRSV). Here the individual ancestor, the namesake of the tribe, is cited as representative of the entire tribe ...
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