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.