May
5
Deuteronomy
25, 26
Deu
25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to
judgment, and the judges
judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the
wicked;
Deu
25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that
the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his
face, according to his wickedness, by number.
Deu
25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he
should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your
brother should seem vile to you.
Deu
25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the
grain.
Deu
25:5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no
son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger:
her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as
wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
Deu
25:6 It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in
the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out
of Israel.
Deu
25:7 If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his
brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My
husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in
Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.
Deu
25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him:
and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;
Deu
25:9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of
the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his
face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man
who does not build up his brother's house.
Deu
25:10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has
his shoe untied.
Deu
25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the
one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who
strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
Deu
25:12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
Deu
25:13 You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a
small.
Deu
25:14 You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and
a small.
Deu
25:15 You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a
perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you.
Deu
25:16 For all who do such things, even
all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Deu
25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth
out of Egypt;
Deu
25:18 how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all
who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he
didn't fear God.
Deu
25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest
from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God
gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out
the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
Deu
26:1 It shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your
God gives you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell therein,
Deu
26:2 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the
ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God
gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the
place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there.
Deu
26:3 You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and
tell him, I profess this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to
the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.
Deu
26:4 The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it
down before the altar of Yahweh your God.
Deu
26:5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready
to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned
there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty,
and populous.
Deu
26:6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on
us hard bondage:
Deu
26:7 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh
heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our
oppression;
Deu
26:8 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand,
and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs,
and with wonders;
Deu
26:9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this
land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deu
26:10 Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the
ground, which you, Yahweh, have given me. You shall set it down
before Yahweh your God, and worship before Yahweh your God.
Deu
26:11 You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has
given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the
foreigner who is in the midst of you.
Deu
26:12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your
increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you
shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and
to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
Deu
26:13 You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy
things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and
to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to
all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not
transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
Deu
26:14 I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away
of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened
to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done according to all that you
have commanded me.
Deu
26:15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless
your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you
swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deu
26:16 This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and
ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart,
and with all your soul.
Deu
26:17 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you
would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments,
and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:
Deu
26:18 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his
own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all
his commandments;
Deu
26:19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in
praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people
to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
