251 " If there is a dispute between men and they go to court , and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked , 2 then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten , the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt . 3 " He may beat him forty times but no more , so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes . 4 " You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing .

5 "When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son , the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man . Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. 6 "It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother , so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel . 7 " But if the man does not desire 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 establish a name for his brother in Israel ; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.' 8 "Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says , 'I do not desire to take her,' 9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders , and pull his sandal off e his foot and spit in his face ; and she shall declare e , 'Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house .' 10 "In Israel his name shall be called , 'The house of him whose sandal is removed .' 11 "If two men , a man and his countryman , are struggling together , and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals , 12 then you shall cut off her hand ; you shall not show pity .

13 " You shall not have in your bag differing weights , a large and a small . 14 "You shall not have in your house differing measures , a large and a small . 15 "You shall have a full and just weight ; you shall have a full and just measure , that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you. 16 "For everyone who does these things , everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the Lord your God .

The Command to Blot Out Amalek

17 " Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt , 18 how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary ; and he did not fear God . 19 "Therefore it shall come about when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies , in the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance to possess , you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven ; you must not forget .

Israel Conquers Og of Bashan

31 " Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan , and Og , king of Bashan , with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Edrei . 2 "But the Lord said to me, 'Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand ; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites , who lived at Heshbon .' 3 "So the Lord our God delivered Og also , king of Bashan , with all his people into our hand , and we smote them until no survivor was left . 4 "We captured all his cities at that time ; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities , all the region of Argob , the kingdom of Og in Bashan . 5 "All these were cities fortified with high walls , gates and bars , besides e a great many unwalled towns . 6 "We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon , utterly destroying the men , women and children of every city . 7 " But all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty . 8 " Thus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan , from the valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon 9 (Sidonians call Hermon Sirion , and the Amorites call it Senir ): 10 all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and all Bashan , as far as Salecah and Edrei , cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan . 11 (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim . Behold , his bedstead was an iron bedstead ; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon . Its length was nine cubits and its width four cubits by ordinary cubit .)

Reuben, Gad, and Half of Manasseh Settle East of the Jordan

12 "So we took possession of this land at that time . From Aroer , which is by the valley of Arnon , and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites . 13 "The rest of Gilead and all Bashan , the kingdom of Og , I gave to the half-tribe e of Manasseh , all the region of Argob (concerning all Bashan , it is called the land of Rephaim . 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites , and called it, that is, Bashan , after his own name , Havvoth-jair , as it is to this day .) 15 " To Machir I gave Gilead . 16 "To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the valley of Arnon , the middle of the valley as a border and as far as the river Jabbok , the border of the sons of Ammon ; 17 the Arabah also, with the Jordan as a border , from Chinnereth even as far as the sea of the Arabah , the Salt Sea , at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east . 18 "Then I commanded you at that time , saying , ' The Lord your God has given you this land to possess it; all you valiant men shall cross over armed before your brothers , the sons of Israel . 19 ' But your wives and your little ones and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock ) shall remain in your cities which I have given you, 20 until the Lord gives rest to your fellow countrymen as to you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them beyond the Jordan . Then you may return every man to his possession which I have given you.'

21 "I commanded Joshua at that time , saying , 'Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings ; so the Lord shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross . 22 'Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you.'

Moses Not Permitted to Enter Canaan

23 "I also pleaded with the Lord at that time , saying , 24 'O Lord GOD , You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand ; for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as Yours? 25 'Let me, I pray , cross over and see the fair land that is beyond the Jordan , that good hill country and Lebanon .' 26 "But the Lord was angry with me on your account , and would not listen to me; and the Lord said to me, 'Enough ! Speak to Me no more e of this matter . 27 'Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes to the west and north and south and east , and see it with your eyes , for you shall not cross over this Jordan . 28 ' But charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him, for he shall go across at the head of this people , and he will give them as an inheritance the land which you will see .' 29 "So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor .