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

2²⁵⁴It shall be, if the wicked man is 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.

3²⁵⁵He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

4²⁵⁶You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain. ²⁵⁷

5²⁵⁸If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. ²⁵⁹Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

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 [God prevails]. ²⁶⁰

7If the man does not 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 [God prevails]. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

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

9²⁶¹then 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. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

10His name shall be called in Israel [God prevails], “The house of him who had his shoe removed.”

11When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and takes him by his private parts,

12²⁶²then you shall cut off her hand. ²⁶³Your eye shall have no pity.

13²⁶⁴You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, one heavy and one light.

14You shall not have in your house diverse measures, one large and one small.

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 Adonai your God gives you.

16For all who do such things, all who deal dishonestly, are an abomination to Adonai your God. (Maftir ·Conclusion·)

17²⁶⁵Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came out of Egypt [Abode of slavery];

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

19²⁶⁶²⁶⁷Therefore it shall be, when Adonai your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Adonai your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek [Man who licks up] from under the sky. You shall not forget.

Haftarah Ki Tetze ·Taking leave· ·When You go out·:

Yesha'yahu / Isaiah 54:1-10;

(Messianic adaptation: Start the Haftarah at 52:13)

B'rit Hadashah ·New Covenant·: Luke 23:1-25