Deuteronomy 25

Deuteronomy 25:1 “If there is a dispute between men, they are to go seek justice, and the judges will hear their case. They will clear the innocent and condemn the guilty.

Deuteronomy 25:2 If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate for his crime.

Deuteronomy 25:3 He may be flogged with forty lashes, but none added to it. Or else, if he is flogged with lashes added to these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.

Deuteronomy 25:4 “Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.

Deuteronomy 25:5 “When brothers live on the same property and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry illegitimately outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

Deuteronomy 25:6 The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Deuteronomy 25:7 But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to 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.’

Deuteronomy 25:8 The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, ‘I don’t want to marry her,’

Deuteronomy 25:9 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 answer, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

Deuteronomy 25:10 And his family name in Israel will be ‘The house of the man whose sandal was removed.’

Deuteronomy 25:11 “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 holds his genitals firmly,

Deuteronomy 25:12 you are to cut off her hand. Do not show pity.

Deuteronomy 25:13 “Do not have differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

Deuteronomy 25:14 Do not have differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.

Deuteronomy 25:15 You must have a complete and ethical weight, a full and ethical dry measure, so that you may live long in the land Yahveh your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 25:16 For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is repulsive to Yahveh your God.

Deuteronomy 25:17 “Remember what the Amalekites did to you on the journey after you left Egypt.

Deuteronomy 25:18 They met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind when you were tired and weary. They did not fear God.

Deuteronomy 25:19 When Yahveh, your God, gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land Yahveh, your God, is giving you to take possession of as an inheritance, blot out the memory of Amalek under the sky. Do not forget.

Deuteronomy 25 quotes:

“Initially, the account about Amalek appears to be an unconnected topic. The law commands Israel to remember what Amalek did to Israel in the wilderness on their way out of Egypt. The older account in Exodus 17:8–16 relates how Amalek attacked Israel, and was defeated by Joshua as Moses held up the staff of God in his hands. From a structural point of view, this passage may be seen as a frame to 12:9–10 in terms of what Israel must do when it experiences rest from all the enemies around you, thus forming a frame around the entire body of cultic and social laws in chapters 12 – 25. The frame to the present passage of remember (v. 17a) and do not forget (v. 19b) calls Israel to a matter of unfinished business with Amalek, her archetypal enemy (cf. 1 Sam. 15:1–3; 30:1–31). Israel is to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven (cf. 12:3; wipe out their names). But verse 18 adds important details to the original account, and brings it under the theme of the tenth commandment and the prohibition of desiring what belongs to the poor and powerless. Amalek’s crime was in desiring and taking advantage of a people when they were weak, powerless and unable to defend themselves (Olson 1994: 114).”

Woods, Edward J.. Deuteronomy: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries Book 5) . InterVarsity Press. Kindle Edition.

“The legislation concerning levirate marriage is peculiar to the presentation of the law in Deuteronomy; the practice, however, was an old one,5 and here it is given legal authority in the covenant community of Israel. The passage falls into two sections: (i) the legislation concerning levirate marriage is stated (vv. 5–6); (ii) the procedure is stated which is to be followed in the event that a man was unwilling to fulfil his responsibilities (vv. 7–10).”

Craigie, Peter C.. The Book of Deuteronomy (The New International Commentary on the Old Testament) (pp. 313-314). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. Kindle Edition.

Deuteronomy 25 links:

Clarifying Evangelical Conditionalism
fair is faithful
flogged with forty
in retrospect- remembering the past
protecting joy
protecting the right to reproduce
sandal and spit
strongholds among us
The sky above – shamayim, the land beneath – erets

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The DEUTERONOMY shelf in Jeff’s library.