Deuteronomy 24:14-25:16

New American Standard Bible

¹⁴ “^(A)You shall not exploit a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your strangers who are in your land in your ^[a]towns. ^15 (B)You shall give him his wages on his day ^[b]before the sun sets—for he is poor and sets his ^[c]heart on it—so that ^(C)he does not cry out against you to the Lord, and it becomes a sin in you.

¹⁶ “^(D)Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin alone.

¹⁷ “^(E)You shall not pervert the justice ^[d]due a stranger or ^[e]an orphan, nor ^(F)seize a widow’s garment as a ^[f]pledge. ¹⁸ But you are to remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

¹⁹ “^(G)When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you are not to go back to get it; it shall belong ^(H)to the stranger, the ^[g]orphan, and to the widow, in order that the Lord your God ^(I)may bless you in all the work of your hands. ^20 (J)When you beat the olives off your olive tree, you are not to search through the branches ^[h]again; that shall be left ^(K)for the stranger, the ^[i]orphan, and for the widow.

²¹ “When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you are not to ^[j]go over it again; that shall be left for the stranger, the ^[k]orphan, and the widow. ²² And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

Various Laws

25 “^(L)If there is a dispute between people and they go to ^[l]court, and ^[m]the judges decide their case, ^(M)and they declare the righteous innocent and pronounce the wicked guilty, ² then it shall be if the wicked person ^[n](N)deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and have him beaten in his presence with the number of lashes according to his ^[o]wrongful act. ^3 (O)He may have him beaten forty times, but not more, so that he does not have him beaten with many more lashes than these, and that your brother does not ^(P)become contemptible in your eyes.

⁴ “^(Q)You shall not muzzle the ox while it 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. ^(R)Her husband’s brother shall have relations with her and take her to himself as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. ⁶ It shall then be that the firstborn to whom she gives birth shall ^[p]assume the name of his father’s deceased brother, so that ^(S)his name will not be wiped out from Israel. ^7 (T)But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s widow, then his brother’s widow 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 (U)then his brother’s widow shall come up to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and ^(V)spit in his face; and she shall ^[q]declare, ‘This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house!’ ¹⁰ And in Israel ^[r]his family shall be called by the name, ‘The house of him whose sandal was removed.’

¹¹ “If two men, a man and his countryman, have a fight ^[s]with each other, and the wife of one comes up to save her husband from the hand of the one who is hitting him, and she reaches out with her hand and grasps ^[t]that man’s genitals, ¹² then you shall cut off her ^[u]hand; ^[v](W)you shall not show pity.

¹³ “^(X)You shall not have in your bag ^[w]differing weights, a large and a small. ¹⁴ You shall not have in your house ^[x]differing measures, a large and a small. ¹⁵ You shall have a correct and honest ^[y]weight; you shall have a correct and honest ^[z]measure, ^(Y)so that your days may be prolonged ^[aa]in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. ¹⁶ For ^(Z)everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God.