¹If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

¹Ako nastane prepir med možmi in pridejo na sodišče, da jih sodijo: tedaj naj opravičijo pravičnega, krivičnega pa obsodijo.

²and 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 wickedness, by number.

²In če je krivični zaslužil palico, ukaži sodnik, naj ga polože na tla ter ga tepo vpričo njega; udarcev število bodi primerno njegovi krivici.

³Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.

³Štirideset mu jih sme priložiti, več pa ne, da ne bi, ako bi nadaljeval in ga tepel še z mnogimi udarci, bil preveč ogrdobljen brat tvoj pred tvojimi očmi.

⁴You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

⁴Ne zaveži gobca volu, ko vrši žito.

⁵If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

⁵Ko stanujeta brata skupaj in eden izmed njiju umre, pa nima sina, naj se žena umrlega ne omoži stran s tujim, temuč njen dever naj gre k njej in jo vzame za ženo in pri njej izvrši moževega brata dolžnost:

⁶It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

⁶prvenec namreč, ki ga bo rodila, nastopi v ime svojega brata, ki je umrl, da se ne iztrebi njegovo ime iz Izraela.

⁷If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

⁷Ako pa možu ni všeč vzeti svoje jetrve, naj gre ona k mestnim vratom pred starejšine in reče: Moža mojega brat se brani, obuditi ime bratu svojemu v Izraelu, noče izvršiti pri meni moževega brata dolžnosti.

⁸Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, “I don’t want to take her”;

⁸Nato naj ga pokličejo starejšine njegovega mesta ter mu prigovarjajo. Ako ostane pri tem in poreče: Ni mi všeč vzeti je,

⁹then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

⁹naj pristopi njegovega brata žena k njemu pred očmi starejšin, mu sezuje čevelj z noge ter mu pljune v obraz, in naj izpregovori ter reče: Tako naj se stori vsakemu možu, ki noče obstanka ohraniti svojega brata rodbini.

¹⁰His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.

¹⁰In njegovo ime naj se imenuje v Izraelu: Sezutega hiša.

¹¹When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

¹¹Ko se dva moža stepeta in priteče enega žena, da bi otela svojega moža pesti tistega, ki ga bije, pa iztegne roko in ga popade za njegov sram,

¹²then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

¹²tedaj ji odsekaj roko; naj ji ne prizanese tvoje oko.

¹³You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

¹³Ne imej v mošnji svoji dvojnih uteži, malih in velikih.

¹⁴You shall not have in your house diverse measures, a great and a small.

¹⁴Ne imej v hiši svoji dvojne efe, večje in manjše.

¹⁵You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

¹⁵Rabi popolne in pravične uteži, tudi popolno in pravično efo, da se podaljšajo tvoji dnevi na zemlji, ki ti jo daje GOSPOD, tvoj Bog.

¹⁶For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

¹⁶Zakaj gnusoba GOSPODU, tvojemu Bogu, so vsi, ki delajo kaj takega, vsi, ki ravnajo nepravično.

¹⁷Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;

¹⁷Spominjaj se, kaj ti je storil Amalek na poti, ko ste šli iz Egipta:

¹⁸how he met you by the way, and struck the hindmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.

¹⁸kako te je napadel ob potu in pobil tvoj zadnji voj, vse slabotne, ki so zaostali, ko ste bili trudni in onemogli, in ni se bal Boga.Ko ti torej GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, da pokoj od vseh tvojih sovražnikov vseokrog, v deželi, ki ti jo da v dediščino GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, da si jo prilastiš, tedaj izbriši spomin Amaleka izpod neba. Ne pozabi tega!

¹⁹Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.

¹⁹Ko ti torej GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, da pokoj od vseh tvojih sovražnikov vseokrog, v deželi, ki ti jo da v dediščino GOSPOD, tvoj Bog, da si jo prilastiš, tedaj izbriši spomin Amaleka izpod neba. Ne pozabi tega!