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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Deuteronomy 25 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/25.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/25-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > Deuteronomy 25</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/24.htm" title="Deuteronomy 24">◄</a> Deuteronomy 25 <a href="../deuteronomy/26.htm" title="Deuteronomy 26">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/deuteronomy/25.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Various Laws</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“If there is a controversy between men, and they go to court, and the judges decide [the issue] between them, and they judge in favor of the innocent and condemn the guilty, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>then it shall be that if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with a [certain] number of stripes in proportion to his offense. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He may have him beaten forty times, but no more. He is not to be beaten with more stripes than these and he is not to be degraded [that is, treated like an animal] in your sight. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing [to prevent him from eating any of the grain]. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the deceased shall not be <i>married</i> outside <i>the family</i> to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall be intimate with her after taking her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>It shall be that her firstborn [son] will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>be given the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s [widowed] wife, then she shall go up to the gate [of the city, where court is held] to the elders, and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to continue his brother’s name in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the elders of his city will summon him and speak to him. And if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to marry her,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>then his brother’s widow shall approach him in the presence of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, ‘So it is done to that man who does not build up his brother’s household.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>In Israel his [family] name shall be, ‘The house of him whose sandal was removed.’ <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“If [two] men, a man and his countryman, are fighting and the wife of one approaches to rescue her husband from the man who is striking him, and she reaches out with her hand and grabs the aggressor’s genitals, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity [for her]. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“You shall not have in your bag inaccurate weights, a heavy and a light [so you can cheat others]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You shall not have in your house inaccurate measures, a large and a small. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>You shall have a perfect (full) and just weight, and a perfect and just measure, so that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For everyone who does such things, everyone who acts unjustly [without personal integrity] is utterly repulsive to the LORD your God. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Remember what Amalek did to you along the road when you came from Egypt, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>how he met you along the road and attacked all the stragglers at your rear when you were tired and weary; and he did not <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>fear God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/25-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall wipe out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>stand on</i>.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>reverence</i>.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/24.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 24"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 24" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/26.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 26"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 26" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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