1 “Suppose there is a dispute between people and they approach the court, the judges hear their case, and declare one righteous and the other guilty.
2 Now if the guilty one deserves to be flogged, the judge is to make him lie down and be flogged before him, with the number of lashes in proportion to his guilt.
3 He may strike him 40 times but no more. Otherwise he would beat him with too many a wound beyond these, and your brother would be degraded in your eyes.
4 “You are not to muzzle the ox while it is threshing.
5 “If brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the dead man’s wife is not to be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother is to go to her and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
6 Now the firstborn that she bears is to carry on the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out of Israel.