1If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.
2And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.
3He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.
4Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
5If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.
6Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.
7But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.
