Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Deuteronomy 25:2-6 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

2. If the judge decides a person must be beaten with a whip, the judge must make that person lie face down. Someone will beat the guilty person while the judge watches. The number of times he must be hit depends on the crime.

3. Don’t hit anyone more than 40 times during punishment, because more than that means that their life is not important to you.

4. “When an animal is being used to separate grain, you must not cover its mouth to stop it from eating.

5. “If two brothers live together, and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man must not marry a stranger outside the family. Her husband’s brother must take her as his wife and have sexual relations with her. He must do the duty of a husband’s brother for her.

6. Then the first son she has will be considered the dead man’s son in order to keep the dead man’s name alive in Israel.