Common English Bible

Deuteronomy 25:7-17 Common English Bible (CEB)

7. If the brother does not want to marry his sister-in-law, she can go to the elders at the city gate, informing them: "My brother-in-law refuses to continue his brother’s legacy in Israel. He’s not willing to perform the brother-in-law’s duty with me."

8. The city’s elders will summon him and talk to him about this. If he doesn’t budge, insisting, "I don’t want to marry her,"

9. then the sister-in-law will approach him while the elders watch. She will pull the sandal off his foot and spit in his face. Then she will exclaim: "That’s what’s done to any man who won’t build up his own brother’s family!"

10. Subsequently, that man’s family will be known throughout Israel as "the house of the removed sandal."

11. If two men are fighting with each other—a man and his fellow Israelite—and the wife of one of them gets into the fight, trying to save her husband from his attacker and does so by reaching out and grabbing his genitals,

12. you must cut off her hand. Show no mercy.

13. Don’t have two different types of money weights in your bag, a heavy one and a light one.

14. Don’t have two different types of ephahs in your house, a large one and a small one.

15. Instead, you must have only one weight, complete and correct, and only one ephah, also complete and correct, so that your life might be long in the fertile land the Lord your God is giving you.

16. What’s more, all who do such things, all who do business dishonestly, are detestable to the Lord your God.

17. Remember, after all, what Amalek did to you on your departure from Egypt: