¹اذا كانت خصومة بين اناس وتقدموا الى القضاء ليقضي القضاة بينهم فليبرروا البار ويحكموا على المذنب.

¹`When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,

²فان كان المذنب مستوجب الضرب يطرحه القاضي ويجلدونه امامه على قدر ذنبه بالعدد.

²then it hath come to pass, if the wrong-doer is to be smitten, that the judge hath caused him to fall down, and [one] hath smitten him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrong-doing, by number;

³اربعين يجلده لا يزد لئلا اذا زاد في جلده على هذه ضربات كثيرة يحتقر اخوك في عينيك.

³forty [times] he doth smite him — he is not adding, lest, he is adding to smite him above these — many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes.

⁴لا تكمّ الثور في دراسه

⁴`Thou dost not muzzle an ox in its threshing.

⁵اذا سكن اخوة معا ومات واحد منهم وليس له ابن فلا تصر امرأة الميت الى خارج لرجل اجنبي. اخو زوجها يدخل عليها ويتخذها لنفسه زوجة ويقوم لها بواجب اخي الزوج.

⁵`When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband`s brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband`s brother;

⁶والبكر الذي تلده يقوم باسم اخيه الميت لئلا يمحى اسمه من اسرائيل

⁶and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.

⁷وان لم يرضى الرجل ان يأخذ امرأة اخيه تصعد امرأة اخيه الى الباب الى الشيوخ وتقول قد ابى اخو زوجي ان يقيم لاخيه اسما في اسرائيل. لم يشأ ان يقوم لي بواجب اخي الزوج.

⁷`And if the man doth not delight to take his brother`s wife, then hath his brother`s wife gone up to the gate, unto the elders, and said, My husband`s brother is refusing to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he hath not been willing to perform the duty of my husband`s brother;

⁸فيدعوه شيوخ مدينته ويتكلمون معه فان اصرّ وقال لا ارضى ان اتخذها

⁸and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her;

⁹تتقدم امرأة اخيه اليه امام اعين الشيوخ وتخلع نعله من رجله وتبصق في وجهه وتصرح وتقول هكذا يفعل بالرجل الذي لا يبني بيت اخيه.

⁹`Then hath his brother`s wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother;

¹⁰فيدعى اسمه في اسرائيل بيت مخلوع النعل

¹⁰and his name hath been called in Israel — The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.

¹¹اذا تخاصم رجلان بعضهما بعضا رجل واخوه وتقدمت امرأة احدهما لكي تخلّص رجلها من يد ضاربه ومدّت يدها وامسكت بعورته

¹¹`When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets,

¹²فاقطع يدها ولا تشفق عينك

¹²then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.

¹³لا يكن لك في كيسك اوزان مختلفة كبيرة وصغيرة.

¹³`Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.

¹⁴لا يكن لك في بيتك مكاييل مختلفة كبيرة وصغيرة.

¹⁴Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.

¹⁵وزن صحيح وحق يكون لك ومكيال صحيح وحق يكون لك لكي تطول ايامك على الارض التي يعطيك الرب الهك.

¹⁵Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

¹⁶لان كل من عمل ذلك كل من عمل غشا مكروه لدى الرب الهك

¹⁶for the abomination of Jehovah thy God [is] any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.

¹⁷اذكر ما فعله بك عماليق في الطريق عند خروجك من مصر.

¹⁷`Remember that which Amalek hath done to thee in the way, in your going out from Egypt,

¹⁸كيف لاقاك في الطريق وقطع من مؤخرك كل المستضعفين وراءك وانت كليل ومتعب ولم يخف الله.

¹⁸that he hath met thee in the way, and smiteth in all those feeble behind thee (and thou wearied and fatigued), and is not fearing God.

¹⁹فمتى اراحك الرب الهك من جميع اعدائك حولك في الارض التي يعطيك الرب الهك نصيبا لكي تمتلكها تمحو ذكر عماليق من تحت السماء. لا تنسى

¹⁹And it hath been, in Jehovah thy God`s giving rest to thee, from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — an inheritance to possess it — thou dost blot out the rememberance of Amalek from under the heavens — thou dost not forget.