Deuteronomy 25:1 — Meaning and Application

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“If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that {the judges} may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.”

Deuteronomy 25:1

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If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that {the judges} may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

And it shall be, if the wicked man {be} worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

Forty stripes he may give him, {and} not exceed: lest, {if} he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

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Deuteronomy 25:2

"And it shall be, if the wicked man {be} worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number."

Deuteronomy 25:3

"Forty stripes he may give him, {and} not exceed: lest, {if} he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee."

Deuteronomy 25:4

"Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out {the corn}. {treadeth...: Heb. thresheth}"

Deuteronomy 25:5

"If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. {her husband's...: or, her next kinsman}"

Deuteronomy 25:6

"And it shall be, {that} the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother {which is} dead, that his name be not put out of Israel."

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