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Deuteronomychapter 25

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A.Forty stripes and no morevv. 1-3

1 If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned. 2 If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants. 3 He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

B.The unmuzzled ox and the loosed sandalvv. 4-10

4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain. 5 When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her. 6 The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. 7 But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.” 8 Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,” 9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.” 10 And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”

C.Shameful hands and honest weightsvv. 11-16

11 If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals, 12 you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity. 13 You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. 14 You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small. 15 You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. 16 For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

D.Blot out the memory of Amalekvv. 17-19

17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt, 18 how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God. 19 When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

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Chapter summary

Various laws; levirate marriage; Amalek.

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Various laws; levirate marriage; Amalek. Forty stripes by number, not more. Lest the brother be degraded. The ox not muzzled that treadeth out the corn (Paul in 1 Cor 9:9 reads this pastorally). The brother who dies without a son. His widow marries his brother, and the firstborn succeeds in the dead brother's name; the brother's refusal met by the plucking off of his shoe. A just weight and a just measure (‘all that do unrighteously, are an abomination’. The chapter closes: ‘remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt’) blot out the remembrance of Amalek.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Law · Moses — Deuteronomy overview

  • A. 1–3 Forty stripes and no more
  • B. 4–10 The unmuzzled ox and the loosed sandal
  • C. 11–16 Shameful hands and honest weights
  • D. 17–19 Blot out the memory of Amalek
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  • Ruth 44 verses
    • Ruth 4:1Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.
    • Ruth 4:5Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
    • Ruth 4:6The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.”
    • Ruth 4:7Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.
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  • Exodus 173 verses
    • Exodus 17:8After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
    • Exodus 17:14Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
    • Exodus 17:16“Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against Amalek from generation to generation.”
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  • Romans 32 verses
    • Romans 3:8Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!
    • Romans 3:18“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.