Deuteronomy 25-26 (New American Standard Bible)

Deuteronomy 25

Sundry Laws

 ¹"^(A)If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, ^(B)and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

 ²then it shall be if the wicked man ^(C)deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.

 ³"^(D)He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not ^(E)degraded in your eyes.

 ⁴"^(F)You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

 ⁵"When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. ^(G)Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

 ⁶"It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that ^(H)his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

 ⁷"^(I)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(J)then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and ^(K)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,

 ¹²then you shall cut off her hand; ^(L)you shall not show pity.

 ¹³"^(M)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, ^(N)that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

 ¹⁶"For ^(O)everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the LORD your God.

 ¹⁷"^(P)Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

 ¹⁸how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he ^(Q)did not ^[a]fear God.

 ¹⁹"Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you ^(R)rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

Deuteronomy 26

Offering First Fruits

 ¹"Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it,

 ²that you shall take some of ^(S)the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and ^(T)go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to establish His name.

 ³"You shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare this day to the LORD my God that I have entered the land which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.'

 ⁴"Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

 ⁵"You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, '^(U)My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, ^(V)few in number; but there he became a ^(W)great, mighty and populous nation.

 ⁶'And the ^(X)Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

 ⁷'Then ^(Y)we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression;

 ^8(Z)and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and wonders;

 ⁹and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, ^(AA)a land flowing with milk and honey.

 ¹⁰'Now behold, I have brought the first of the produce of the ground ^(AB)which You, O LORD have given me.' And you shall set it down before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God;

 ¹¹and you and ^(AC)the Levite and the alien who is among you shall ^(AD)rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given you and your household.

 ¹²"^(AE)When you have finished paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger, to the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

 ¹³"You shall say before the LORD your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion from my house, and also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; ^(AF)I have not transgressed or forgotten any of Your commandments.

 ¹⁴'I have not eaten of it while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me.

 ¹⁵'^(AG)Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel, and the ground which You have given us, ^(AH)a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers.'

 ¹⁶"This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them ^(AI)with all your heart and with all your soul.

 ¹⁷"^(AJ)You have today declared the LORD to be your God, and that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments and His ordinances, and listen to His voice.

 ¹⁸"The LORD has today declared you to be ^(AK)His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His commandments;

 ¹⁹and that He will ^(AL)set you high above all nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor; and that you shall be ^(AM)a consecrated people to the LORD your God, as He has spoken."