Wherefore I command thee to do this thing. When thou cuttest
down thine harvest in the field and hast forgotten a sheaf in the
field, thou shalt not go again and fetch it: But it shall be for the
stranger, the fatherless and the widow, that the LORD thy God may bless
thee in all the work of thine hand. When thou beatest down thine olive
trees thou shalt not make clean riddance after thee: but it shall be
for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. And when thou gatherest
thy vineyard, thou shalt not gather clean after thee: but it shall be
for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. And remember that thou
wast a servant in the land of Egypt: wherefore I command thee to do
this thing.
Chapter .xxv.
When {If} there is strife between men, let them come unto the law, and
let the judges justify the righteous and condemn the trespasser. And if
the trespasser be worthy of stripes, then let the judge cause to take
him down and to beat him before his face according to his trespass,
unto a certain number. Forty stripes he shall give him and not pass:
lest if he should exceed and beat him above that with many stripes, thy
brother should appear ungodly before thine eyes. Thou shalt not muzzle
{mosell} the ox that treadeth out the corn. When brethren dwell
together and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead
shall not be given out unto a stranger: but her brotherinlaw shall go
in unto her and take her to wife and marry her. And the eldest son
which she beareth, shall stond up in the name of his brother which is
dead, that his name be not put out in Israel. But and if the man will
not take his sisterinlaw, then let her go to the gate unto the elders
and say: My brotherinlaw refuseth to stir up unto his brother a name in
Israel, he will not marry me. Then let the elders of his city call unto
him and commune with him. If he stond and say: I will not take her,
then let his sister-in-law go unto him in the presence of the elders
and loose his shoe off his foot and spit in his face and answer and
say: So shall it be done unto that man that will not build his
brother's house. And his name shall be called in Israel, the unshoed
house. If when men strive together, one with another, the wife of the
one run to, for to rid her husband out of the hands of him that smiteth
him and put forth her hand and take him by the secrets: cut off her
hand, and let not thine eye pity her. Thou shalt not have in thy bag
two manner weights, a great and a small: neither shalt thou have in
thine house divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a
perfect and a just measure: that thy days may be lengthened in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee. For all that do such things and all
that do unright, are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Remember what
Amalech did unto thee by the way after thou camest out of Egypt, he met
thee by the way and smote the hindmost of you, all that were over
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