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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

Names, People and Places:
 · Amalek members of the nation of Amalek
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel


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 | more
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NET Notes: Deu 25:1 Heb “declare to be evil”; NIV “condemning the guilty (+ party NAB).”

NET Notes: Deu 25:2 Heb “according to his wickedness, by number.”

NET Notes: Deu 25:3 Heb “your brothers” but not limited only to an actual sibling; cf. NAB) “your kinsman”; NRSV, NLT “your neighbor.”

NET Notes: Deu 25:4 Heb “an.” By implication this is one’s own animal.

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 ...

NET Notes: Deu 25:6 Heb “the firstborn.” This refers to the oldest male child.

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 ...

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...

NET Notes: Deu 25:10 Cf. NIV, NCV “The Family of the Unsandaled.”

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 ...

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.

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...

NET Notes: Deu 25:15 Or “just”; Heb “righteous.”

NET Notes: Deu 25:16 The Hebrew term translated here “abhorrent” (תּוֹעֵבָה, to’evah) speaks of att...

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 ...

NET Notes: Deu 25:18 See Exod 17:8-16.

NET Notes: Deu 25:19 This command is fulfilled in 1 Sam 15:1-33.

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