1. If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.
2. And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:
3. Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.
4. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.
5. When brethren dwell together, and one of them dieth without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to another: but his brother shall take her, and raise up seed for his brother:
6. And the first son he shall have of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.
7. But if he will not take his brother's wife, who by law belongeth to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband's brother refuseth to raise up his brother's name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.
8. And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:
9. The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother's house:
10. And his name shall be called in Israel, the house of the unshod.