Deuteronomy

Chapter 25

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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1If there is a dispute between men, and they draw near for judgment, and they judge them, they shall declare the one in the right to be in the right, and declare the guilty one guilty.

2And it shall be, if the guilty one is to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and beat him in his presence, by number, according to his guilt.

Notes (1)

Translation
Ben hakkot is a son of beating, one who is to be beaten.

3He may beat him forty times. He shall not add, or he might add, beating him above these with a heavy beating, and your brother would be made light in your eyes.

4You shall not muzzle an ox in its threshing.

5If brothers live together and one of them dies, and he has no son, the dead man’s wife shall not go outside to an outsider. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her for himself as a wife, and he shall act as her husband’s brother.

Notes (1)

Translation
Yabam is her husband’s brother. Yibbem is to act as that brother. Zar is an outsider. The line does not use a later legal name for the act.

6And it shall be, the firstborn whom she bears shall rise on the name of his dead brother, and his name shall not be wiped out from Israel.

7But if the man does not delight to take his brother’s widow, his brother’s widow shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel. He is not willing to act as my husband’s brother.

8The elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. If he stands and says, I do not delight to take her,

9his brother’s widow shall draw near to him in the eyes of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who will not build his brother’s house.

10And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of the one whose sandal was pulled off.

11If men struggle together, a man and his brother, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and seizes him by his private parts,

Notes (1)

Translation
Mevushav is his private parts.

12you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall not pity.

13You shall not have in your bag a stone and a stone, a large one and a small one.

14You shall not have in your house an ephah and an ephah, a large one and a small one.

15A whole and right stone you shall have. A whole and right ephah you shall have, so that your days are long on the soil that Yahweh your God is giving you.

Notes (1)

Translation
Even shelemah va-tsedeq is a stone that is whole and right. The same words are used for the ephah.

16For anyone who does these things, anyone who does injustice, is an abomination of Yahweh your God.

17Remember what Amalek did to you on the road, when you came out of Egypt,

18how he met you on the road and cut off your rear, all who were lagging behind you, while you were faint and weary, and he did not fear God.

Notes (1)

Translation
Va-yezannev is he cut off the tail, the rear of the line. Ha-necheshalim are those who were lagging.

19And it shall be, when Yahweh your God gives you rest from all your enemies around, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance to take possession of, you shall wipe out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. You shall not forget.

Deuteronomy

Chapter 25

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1If there is a dispute between men, and they draw near for judgment, and they judge them, they shall declare the one in the right to be in the right, and declare the guilty one guilty.

2And it shall be, if the guilty one is to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and beat him in his presence, by number, according to his guilt.

Notes (1)

Translation
Ben hakkot is a son of beating, one who is to be beaten.

3He may beat him forty times. He shall not add, or he might add, beating him above these with a heavy beating, and your brother would be made light in your eyes.

4You shall not muzzle an ox in its threshing.

Notes (1)

Translation
Yabam is her husband’s brother. Yibbem is to act as that brother. Zar is an outsider. The line does not use a later legal name for the act.

6And it shall be, the firstborn whom she bears shall rise on the name of his dead brother, and his name shall not be wiped out from Israel.

8The elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. If he stands and says, I do not delight to take her,

10And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of the one whose sandal was pulled off.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mevushav is his private parts.

12you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall not pity.

13You shall not have in your bag a stone and a stone, a large one and a small one.

14You shall not have in your house an ephah and an ephah, a large one and a small one.

15A whole and right stone you shall have. A whole and right ephah you shall have, so that your days are long on the soil that Yahweh your God is giving you.

Notes (1)

Translation
Even shelemah va-tsedeq is a stone that is whole and right. The same words are used for the ephah.

16For anyone who does these things, anyone who does injustice, is an abomination of Yahweh your God.

17Remember what Amalek did to you on the road, when you came out of Egypt,

18how he met you on the road and cut off your rear, all who were lagging behind you, while you were faint and weary, and he did not fear God.

Notes (1)

Translation
Va-yezannev is he cut off the tail, the rear of the line. Ha-necheshalim are those who were lagging.