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Deuteronomy 25:1-5 New International Version (NIV)

1. When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges will decide the case, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty.

2. If the guilty person deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make them lie down and have them flogged in his presence with the number of lashes the crime deserves,

3. but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes. If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.

4. Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

5. If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

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