BRAGADAYJAH 580
God's Demand for Justice
If there be a controversy between men and they come before the
judges for judgment, then the judges shall justify the righteous and condemn
the wicked. And if it shall be that the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the
judges shall cause him to lie down and beat him before his face according to
his fault by a certain number. Forty stripes they may give him and not more;
for if he be given more, he may see his brother as vile. The ox that grinds the
corn shall not be muzzled. If brethren dwell together and one of them die, and
have no children, the wife of the dead man shall not marry without to a
stranger; her husband's brother shall go in unto her and take her to him for
wife and perform the duty of a husband unto her.
And it shall be that the first born which she bears shall bear the
name of the brother who is dead that his name shall not cease out of Israel.
But if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife then he should allow
her to go up to the gate unto the elders and tell them that her husband's
brother has refused to raise up children for his brother a name. And then the
elders shall call him and speak to him and if he states that he will not take
her, then the widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and loose
the shoe from off his feet and spit in his face and set him free from his
obligation to his brother, and he shall thereafter be known as the house of the
man does not sustain his brother's house.
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