1. When there is a dispute and the parties draw near for judgment, and a decision is given, declaring one party in the right and the other in the wrong,
2. if the one in the wrong deserves whipping, the judge shall have him lie down and in the presence of the judge receive the number of lashes the crime warrants.
3. Forty lashes may be given, but no more; or else, if more lashes are added to these many blows, your brother will be degraded in your sight.
4. You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out grain.
5. When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the deceased shall not marry anyone outside the family; but her husband’s brother shall come to her, marrying her and performing the duty of a brother-in-law.
6. The firstborn son she bears shall continue the name of the deceased brother, that his name may not be blotted out from Israel.
7. But if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go up to the elders at the gate and say, “My brother-in-law refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel and does not intend to perform his duty toward me.”