Deut.23.1

No eunuch is to enter the congregation of GOD.

Deut.23.1

No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Deut.23.1

"He who is emasculated by crushing or mutilation shall not enter the assembly of the LORD.

Deut.23.1

"If a man's testicles are crushed or his penis is cut off, he may not be included in the assembly of the LORD.

Deut.23.2

No bastard is to enter the congregation of GOD, even to the tenth generation, nor any of his children.

Deut.23.2

No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even down to the tenth generation.

Deut.23.2

"One of illegitimate birth shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD.

Deut.23.2

"Those of illegitimate birth and their descendants for ten generations may not be included in the assembly of the LORD.

Deut.23.3

No Ammonite or Moabite is to enter the congregation of GOD, even to the tenth generation, nor any of his children, ever.

Deut.23.3

No Ammonite or Moabite or any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even down to the tenth generation.

Deut.23.3

"An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants shall enter the assembly of the LORD forever,

Deut.23.3

"No Ammonites or Moabites, or any of their descendants for ten generations, may be included in the assembly of the LORD.

Deut.23.4

Those nations didn't treat you with hospitality on your travels out of Egypt, and on top of that they also hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Mesopotamia to curse you.

Deut.23.4

For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim to pronounce a curse on you.

Deut.23.4

because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

Deut.23.4

These nations did not welcome you with food and water when you came out of Egypt. Instead, they tried to hire Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.

Deut.23.5

GOD, your God, refused to listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing--how GOD, your God, loves you!

Deut.23.5

However, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

Deut.23.5

Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.

Deut.23.5

(But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam. He turned the intended curse into a blessing because the LORD your God loves you.)

Deut.23.6

Don't even try to get along with them or do anything for them, ever.

Deut.23.6

Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.

Deut.23.6

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Deut.23.6

You must never, as long as you live, try to help the Ammonites or the Moabites in any way.

Deut.23.7

But don't spurn an Edomite; he's your kin. And don't spurn an Egyptian; you were a foreigner in his land.

Deut.23.7

Do not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as an alien in his country.

Deut.23.7

"You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were an alien in his land.

Deut.23.7

"Do not detest the Edomites or the Egyptians, because the Edomites are your relatives, and you lived as foreigners among the Egyptians.

Deut.23.8

Children born to Edomites and Egyptians may enter the congregation of GOD in the third generation. [JC]

Deut.23.8

The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Deut.23.8

The children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Deut.23.8

The third generation of Egyptians who came with you from Egypt may enter the assembly of the LORD.

Deut.23.9

When you are camped out, at war with your enemies, be careful to keep yourself from anything ritually defiling.

Deut.23.9

When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.

Deut.23.9

"When the army goes out against your enemies, then keep yourself from every wicked thing.

Deut.23.9

"When you go to war against your enemies, stay away from everything impure.

Deut.23.10

If one of your men has become ritually unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must go outside the camp and stay there

Deut.23.10

If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there.

Deut.23.10

If there is any man among you who becomes unclean by some occurrence in the night, then he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come inside the camp.

Deut.23.10

"Any man who becomes ceremonially defiled because of a nocturnal emission must leave the camp and stay away all day.

Deut.23.11

until evening when he can wash himself, returning to the camp at sunset.

Deut.23.11

But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.

Deut.23.11

But it shall be, when evening comes, that he shall wash with water; and when the sun sets, he may come into the camp.

Deut.23.11

Toward evening he must bathe himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.

Deut.23.12

Mark out an area outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourselves.

Deut.23.12

Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.

Deut.23.12

"Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out;

Deut.23.12

"Mark off an area outside the camp for a latrine.

Deut.23.13

Along with your weapons have a stick with you. After you relieve yourself, dig a hole with the stick and cover your excrement.

Deut.23.13

As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

Deut.23.13

and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse.

Deut.23.13

Each of you must have a spade as part of your equipment. Whenever you relieve yourself, you must dig a hole with the spade and cover the excrement.

Deut.23.14

GOD, your God, strolls through your camp; he's present to deliver you and give you victory over your enemies. Keep your camp holy; don't permit anything indecent or offensive in GOD's eyes. [JC]

Deut.23.14

For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.

Deut.23.14

For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.

Deut.23.14

The camp must be holy, for the LORD your God moves around in your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies. He must not see any shameful thing among you, or he might turn away from you.

Deut.23.15

Don't return a runaway slave to his master; he's come to you for refuge.

Deut.23.15

If a slave has taken refuge with you, do not hand him over to his master.

Deut.23.15

"You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you.

Deut.23.15

"If slaves should escape from their masters and take refuge with you, do not force them to return.

Deut.23.16

Let him live wherever he wishes within the protective gates of your city. Don't take advantage of him.

Deut.23.16

Let him live among you wherever he likes and in whatever town he chooses. Do not oppress him.

Deut.23.16

He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it seems best to him; you shall not oppress him.

Deut.23.16

Let them live among you in whatever town they choose, and do not oppress them.

Deut.23.17

No daughter of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute; and no son of Israel is to become a sacred prostitute.

Deut.23.17

No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.

Deut.23.17

"There shall be no ritual harlot of the daughters of Israel, or a perverted one of the sons of Israel.

Deut.23.17

"No Israelite man or woman may ever become a temple prostitute.

Deut.23.18

And don't bring the fee of a sacred whore or the earnings of a priest-pimp to the house of GOD, your God, to pay for any vow--they are both an abomination to GOD, your God.

Deut.23.18

You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute into the house of the LORD your God to pay any vow, because the LORD your God detests them both.

Deut.23.18

You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the LORD your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.

Deut.23.18

Do not bring to the house of the LORD your God any offering from the earnings of a prostitute, whether a man or a woman, for both are detestable to the LORD your God.

Deut.23.19

Don't charge interest to your kinsmen on any loan: not for money or food or clothing or anything else that could earn interest.

Deut.23.19

Do not charge your brother interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.

Deut.23.19

"You shall not charge interest to your brother--interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest.

Deut.23.19

"Do not charge interest on the loans you make to a fellow Israelite, whether it is money, food, or anything else that may be loaned with interest.

Deut.23.20

You may charge foreigners interest, but you may not charge your brothers interest; that way GOD, your God, will bless all the work that you take up and the land that you are entering to possess.

Deut.23.20

You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a brother Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

Deut.23.20

To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.

Deut.23.20

You may charge interest to foreigners, but not to Israelites, so the LORD your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are about to enter and occupy.

Deut.23.21

When you make a vow to GOD, your God, don't put off keeping it; GOD, your God, expects you to keep it and if you don't you're guilty.

Deut.23.21

If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the LORD your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.

Deut.23.21

"When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and it would be sin to you.

Deut.23.21

"When you make a vow to the LORD your God, be prompt in doing whatever you promised him. For the LORD your God demands that you promptly fulfill all your vows. If you don't, you will be guilty of sin.

Deut.23.22

But if you don't make a vow in the first place, there's no sin.

Deut.23.22

But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty.

Deut.23.22

But if you abstain from vowing, it shall not be sin to you.

Deut.23.22

However, it is not a sin to refrain from making a vow.

Deut.23.23

If you say you're going to do something, do it. Keep the vow you willingly vowed to GOD, your God. You promised it, so do it.

Deut.23.23

Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

Deut.23.23

That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.

Deut.23.23

But once you have voluntarily made a vow, be careful to do as you have said, for you have made a vow to the LORD your God.

Deut.23.24

When you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want until you're full, but you may not put any in your bucket or bag.

Deut.23.24

If you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket.

Deut.23.24

"When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes at your pleasure, but you shall not put any in your container.

Deut.23.24

"You may eat your fill of grapes from your neighbor's vineyard, but do not take any away in a basket.

Deut.23.25

And when you walk through the ripe grain of your neighbor, you may pick the heads of grain, but you may not swing your sickle there.

Deut.23.25

If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grain.

Deut.23.25

When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor's standing grain.

Deut.23.25

And you may pluck a few heads of your neighbor's grain by hand, but you may not harvest it with a sickle.

Deut.24.1

If a man marries a woman and then it happens that he no longer likes her because he has found something wrong with her, he may give her divorce papers, put them in her hand, and send her off.

Deut.24.1

If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house,

Deut.24.1

"When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house,

Deut.24.1

"Suppose a man marries a woman but later discovers something about her that is shameful. So he writes her a letter of divorce, gives it to her, and sends her away.

Deut.24.2

After she leaves, if she becomes another man's wife

Deut.24.2

and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man,

Deut.24.2

when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man's wife,

Deut.24.2

If she then leaves and marries another man

Deut.24.3

and he also comes to hate her and this second husband also gives her divorce papers, puts them in her hand, and sends her off, or if he should die,

Deut.24.3

and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies,

Deut.24.3

if the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife,

Deut.24.3

and the second husband also divorces her or dies,

Deut.24.4

then the first husband who divorced her can't marry her again. She has made herself ritually unclean, and her remarriage would be an abomination in the Presence of GOD and defile the land with sin, this land that GOD, your God, is giving you as an inheritance.

Deut.24.4

then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deut.24.4

then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deut.24.4

the former husband may not marry her again, for she has been defiled. That would be detestable to the LORD. You must not bring guilt upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as a special possession.

Deut.24.5

When a man takes a new wife, he is not to go out with the army or be given any business or work duties. He gets one year off simply to be at home making his wife happy.

Deut.24.5

If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.

Deut.24.5

"When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one year, and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Deut.24.5

"A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or given any other special responsibilities. He must be free to be at home for one year, bringing happiness to the wife he has married.

Deut.24.6

Don't seize a handmill or an upper millstone as collateral for a loan. You'd be seizing someone's very life.

Deut.24.6

Do not take a pair of millstones-not even the upper one-as security for a debt, because that would be taking a man's livelihood as security.

Deut.24.6

"No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes one's living in pledge.

Deut.24.6

"It is wrong to take a pair of millstones, or even just the upper millstone, as a pledge, for the owner uses it to make a living.

Deut.24.7

If a man is caught kidnapping one of his kinsmen, someone of the People of Israel, to enslave or sell him, the kidnapper must die. Purge that evil from among you.

Deut.24.7

If a man is caught kidnapping one of his brother Israelites and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.

Deut.24.7

"If a man is found kidnapping any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and mistreats him or sells him, then that kidnapper shall die; and you shall put away the evil from among you.

Deut.24.7

"If anyone kidnaps a fellow Israelite and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must cleanse the evil from among you.

Deut.24.8

Warning! If a serious skin disease breaks out, follow exactly the rules set down by the Levitical priests. Follow them precisely as I commanded them.

Deut.24.8

In cases of leprous diseases be very careful to do exactly as the priests, who are Levites, instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them.

Deut.24.8

"Take heed in an outbreak of leprosy, that you carefully observe and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; just as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

Deut.24.8

"Watch all contagious skin diseases carefully and follow the instructions of the Levitical priests; obey the commands I have given them.

Deut.24.9

Don't forget what GOD, your God, did to Miriam on your way out of Egypt.

Deut.24.9

Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.

Deut.24.9

Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way when you came out of Egypt!

Deut.24.9

Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam as you were coming from Egypt.

Deut.24.10

When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, don't enter his house to claim his pledge.

Deut.24.10

When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into his house to get what he is offering as a pledge.

Deut.24.10

"When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

Deut.24.10

"If you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter your neighbor's house to claim the security.

Deut.24.11

Wait outside. Let the man to whom you made the pledge bring the pledge to you outside.

Deut.24.11

Stay outside and let the man to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.

Deut.24.11

You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you.

Deut.24.11

Stand outside and the owner will bring it out to you.

Deut.24.12

And if he is destitute, don't use his cloak as a bedroll;

Deut.24.12

If the man is poor, do not go to sleep with his pledge in your possession.

Deut.24.12

And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.

Deut.24.12

If your neighbor is poor and has only a cloak to give as security, do not keep the cloak overnight.

Deut.24.13

return it to him at nightfall so that he can sleep in his cloak and bless you. In the sight of GOD, your God, that will be viewed as a righteous act.

Deut.24.13

Return his cloak to him by sunset so that he may sleep in it. Then he will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God.

Deut.24.13

You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and bless you; and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

Deut.24.13

Return the cloak to its owner by sunset so your neighbor can sleep in it and bless you. And the LORD your God will count it as a righteous act.

Deut.24.14

Don't abuse a laborer who is destitute and needy, whether he is a fellow Israelite living in your land and in your city.

Deut.24.14

Do not take advantage of a hired man who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother Israelite or an alien living in one of your towns.

Deut.24.14

"You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates.

Deut.24.14

"Never take advantage of poor laborers, whether fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns.

Deut.24.15

Pay him at the end of each workday; he's living from hand to mouth and needs it now. If you hold back his pay, he'll protest to GOD and you'll have sin on your books.

Deut.24.15

Pay him his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and is counting on it. Otherwise he may cry to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Deut.24.15

Each day you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; lest he cry out against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

Deut.24.15

Pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they might cry out to the LORD against you, and it would be counted against you as sin.

Deut.24.16

Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their parents. Each person shall be put to death for his own sin.

Deut.24.16

Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

Deut.24.16

"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.

Deut.24.16

"Parents must not be put to death for the sins of their children, nor the children for the sins of their parents. Those worthy of death must be executed for their own crimes.

Deut.24.17

Make sure foreigners and orphans get their just rights. Don't take the cloak of a widow as security for a loan.

Deut.24.17

Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

Deut.24.17

"You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow's garment as a pledge.

Deut.24.17

"True justice must be given to foreigners living among you and to orphans, and you must never accept a widow's garment in pledge of her debt.

Deut.24.18

Don't ever forget that you were once slaves in Egypt and GOD, your God, got you out of there. I command you: Do what I'm telling you.

Deut.24.18

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

Deut.24.18

But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this thing.

Deut.24.18

Always remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you. That is why I have given you this command.

Deut.24.19

When you harvest your grain and forget a sheaf back in the field, don't go back and get it; leave it for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow so that GOD, your God, will bless you in all your work.

Deut.24.19

When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deut.24.19

"When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deut.24.19

"When you are harvesting your crops and forget to bring in a bundle of grain from your field, don't go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigners, orphans, and widows. Then the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

Deut.24.20

When you shake the olives off your trees, don't go back over the branches and strip them bare--what's left is for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.

Deut.24.20

When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow.

Deut.24.20

When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deut.24.20

When you beat the olives from your olive trees, don't go over the boughs twice. Leave some of the olives for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.

Deut.24.21

And when you cut the grapes in your vineyard, don't take every last grape--leave a few for the foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.

Deut.24.21

When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow.

Deut.24.21

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deut.24.21

This also applies to the grapes in your vineyard. Do not glean the vines after they are picked, but leave any remaining grapes for the foreigners, orphans, and widows.

Deut.24.22

Don't ever forget that you were a slave in Egypt. I command you: Do what I'm telling you.

Deut.24.22

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.

Deut.24.22

And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing.

Deut.24.22

Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. That is why I am giving you this command.

Deut.25.1

When men have a legal dispute, let them go to court; the judges will decide between them, declaring one innocent and the other guilty.

Deut.25.1

When men have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.

Deut.25.1

"If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

Deut.25.1

"Suppose two people take a dispute to court, and the judges declare that one is right and the other is wrong.

Deut.25.2

If the guilty one deserves punishment, the judge will have him prostrate himself before him and lashed as many times as his crime deserves,

Deut.25.2

If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and have him flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime deserves,

Deut.25.2

then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows.

Deut.25.2

If the person in the wrong is sentenced to be flogged, the judge will command him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate to the crime.

Deut.25.3

but not more than forty. If you hit him more than forty times, you will degrade him to something less than human.

Deut.25.3

but he must not give him more than forty lashes. If he is flogged more than that, your brother will be degraded in your eyes.

Deut.25.3

Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight.

Deut.25.3

No more than forty lashes may ever be given; more than forty lashes would publicly humiliate your neighbor.

Deut.25.4

Don't muzzle an ox while it is threshing.

Deut.25.4

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

Deut.25.4

"You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.

Deut.25.4

"Do not keep an ox from eating as it treads out the grain.

Deut.25.5

When brothers are living together and one of them dies without having had a son, the widow of the dead brother shall not marry a stranger from outside the family; her husband's brother is to come to her and marry her and do the brother-in-law's duty by her.

Deut.25.5

If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

Deut.25.5

"If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband's brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

Deut.25.5

"If two brothers are living together on the same property and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Instead, her husband's brother must marry her and fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law.

Deut.25.6

The first son that she bears shall be named after her dead husband so his name won't die out in Israel.

Deut.25.6

The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Deut.25.6

And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

Deut.25.6

The first son she bears to him will be counted as the son of the dead brother, so that his name will not be forgotten in Israel.

Deut.25.7

But if the brother doesn't want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the leaders at the city gate and say, "My brother-in-law refuses to keep his brother's name alive in Israel; he won't agree to do the brother-in-law's duty by me."

Deut.25.7

However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me."

Deut.25.7

But if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.'

Deut.25.7

But if the dead man's brother refuses to marry the widow, she must go to the town gate and say to the leaders there, `My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel--he refuses to marry me.'

Deut.25.8

Then the leaders will call for the brother and confront him. If he stands there defiant and says, "I don't want her,"

Deut.25.8

Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, "I do not want to marry her,"

Deut.25.8

Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. But if he stands firm and says, "I do not want to take her,'

Deut.25.8

The leaders of the town will then summon him and try to reason with him. If he still insists that he doesn't want to marry her,

Deut.25.9

his sister-in-law is to pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and say, "This is what happens to the man who refuses to build up the family of his brother

Deut.25.9

his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, "This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line."

Deut.25.9

then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house.'

Deut.25.9

the widow must walk over to him in the presence of the leaders, pull his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then say, `This is what happens to a man who refuses to raise up a son for his brother.'

Deut.25.10

-his name in Israel will be Family-No-Sandal."

Deut.25.10

That man's line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.

Deut.25.10

And his name shall be called in Israel, "The house of him who had his sandal removed.'

Deut.25.10

Ever afterward his family will be referred to as `the family of the man whose sandal was pulled off'!

Deut.25.11

When two men are in a fight and the wife of the one man, trying to rescue her husband, grabs the genitals of the man hitting him,

Deut.25.11

If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts,

Deut.25.11

"If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals,

Deut.25.11

"If two Israelite men are fighting and the wife of one tries to rescue her husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man,

Deut.25.12

you are to cut off her hand. Show no pity.

Deut.25.12

you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.

Deut.25.12

then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.

Deut.25.12

her hand must be cut off without pity.

Deut.25.13

Don't carry around with you two weights, one heavy and the other light,

Deut.25.13

Do not have two differing weights in your bag-one heavy, one light.

Deut.25.13

"You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.

Deut.25.13

"You must use accurate scales when you weigh out merchandise,

Deut.25.14

and don't keep two measures at hand, one large and the other small.

Deut.25.14

Do not have two differing measures in your house-one large, one small.

Deut.25.14

You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

Deut.25.14

and you must use full and honest measures.

Deut.25.15

Use only one weight, a true and honest weight, and one measure, a true and honest measure, so that you will live a long time on the land that GOD, your God, is giving you.

Deut.25.15

You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Deut.25.15

You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

Deut.25.15

Yes, use honest weights and measures, so that you will enjoy a long life in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Deut.25.16

Dishonest weights and measures are an abomination to GOD, your God--all this corruption in business deals!

Deut.25.16

For the LORD your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.

Deut.25.16

For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.

Deut.25.16

Those who cheat with dishonest weights and measures are detestable to the LORD your God.

Deut.25.17

Don't forget what Amalek did to you on the road after you left Egypt,

Deut.25.17

Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt.

Deut.25.17

"Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt,

Deut.25.17

"Never forget what the Amalekites did to you as you came from Egypt.

Deut.25.18

how he attacked you when you were tired, barely able to put one foot in front of another, mercilessly cut off your stragglers, and had no regard for God.

Deut.25.18

When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and cut off all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.

Deut.25.18

how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.

Deut.25.18

They attacked you when you were exhausted and weary, and they struck down those who were lagging behind. They had no fear of God.

Deut.25.19

When GOD, your God, gives you rest from all the enemies that surround you in the inheritance-land GOD, your God, is giving you to possess, you are to wipe the name of Amalek from off the Earth. Don't forget!

Deut.25.19

When the LORD your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

Deut.25.19

Therefore it shall be, when the LORD your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.

Deut.25.19

Therefore, when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies in the land he is giving you as a special possession, you are to destroy the Amalekites and erase their memory from under heaven. Never forget this!