1. “Suppose two Israelites go to court to settle a dispute, and one is declared innocent and the other guilty.
2. If the guilty person is sentenced to be beaten, the judge is to make him lie face downwards and have him whipped. The number of lashes will depend on the crime he has committed.
3. He may be given as many as forty lashes, but no more; more than that would humiliate him publicly.
4. “Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh corn.
5. “If two brothers live on the same property and one of them dies, leaving no son, then his widow is not to be married to someone outside the family; it is the duty of the dead man's brother to marry her.
6. The first son that they have will be considered the son of the dead man, so that his family line will continue in Israel.