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Deuteronomy 25
⁷ But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ’My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’
⁸ Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, ’I do not desire to take her,’
⁹ then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ’Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’
¹⁰ In Israel his name shall be called, ’The house of him whose sandal is removed.’
¹¹ "If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,
¹² then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.
¹³ "You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
¹⁴ You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
¹⁵ You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
¹⁶ For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God.
¹⁷ "Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,