New English Translation

Deuteronomy 25:9-16 New English Translation (NET)

9. then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then respond, “Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line!”

10. His family name will be referred to in Israel as “the family of the one whose sandal was removed.”

11. If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

12. then you must cut off her hand – do not pity her.

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

14. You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.

15. You must have an accurate and correct stone weight and an accurate and correct measuring container, so that your life may be extended in the land the Lord your God is about to give you.

16. For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God.