Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 25:7-17 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

7. But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she must go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’

8. The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’

9. then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

10. And his family name in Israel will be called ‘The house of the man whose sandal was removed.’

11. “If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals,

12. you are to cut off her hand. You must not show pity.

13. “You must not have two different weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

14. You must not have two differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.

15. You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

16. For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the Lord your God.

17. “Remember what the Amalekites did to you on the journey after you left Egypt.