1When 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. 2If 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, 3but 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.
4Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
5If 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 fulfil the duty of a brother-in-law to her. 6The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
7However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfil the duty of a brother-in-law to me.’ 8Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, ‘I do not want to marry her,’ 9his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, ‘This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.’ 10That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandalled.
11If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 12you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
13Do not have two differing weights in your bag – one heavy, one light. 14Do not have two differing measures in your house – one large, one small. 15You must have accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 16For the Lord your God detests anyone who does these things, anyone who deals dishonestly.
17Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. 18When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God. 19When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land he is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
1Sɛ akasakasa si mmarima baanu ntam a, wɔmfa asɛm no nkɔ asɛnniiɛ na ɔtemmufoɔ no nni asɛm no. Ɔbɛgyaa deɛ ɔdi bem no na wɔatwe deɛ ɔdi fɔ no aso. 2Sɛ ɔbarima a ɔdi fɔ no fata sɛ wɔtwa no mmaa a, ɔtemmufoɔ no bɛma no ada hɔ na watwa no mmaa dodoɔ a ɛfata ne bɔne no wɔ nʼanim. 3Nanso, ɛnsɛ sɛ wɔtwa no mmaa boro aduanan. Sɛ wɔtwa no boro saa a, na wɔagu wo nua anim ase wɔ wʼanim.
4Nkyekyere nantwie a ɔreporo atokoɔ ano.
5Sɛ nuammarima baanu te fie na wɔn mu baako wu a wanwo ɔba a, ɛnsɛ sɛ okunafoɔ no kɔware ɔhɔhoɔ. Mmom, ne kunu a wawuo no nuabarima na ɛsɛ sɛ ɔware okunafoɔ no, na wayɛ okunu nua asɛdeɛ ama okunafoɔ no. 6Abakan a wɔbɛwo no no, wɔde no bɛto nʼagya a wawuo no sɛdeɛ ɛbɛyɛ a, owufoɔ no din rempepa mfiri Israel.
7Na sɛ ɛba sɛ owufoɔ no nuabarima mpɛ sɛ ɔware ne nua no yere no a, ɔbaa no bɛkɔ kuro no mpanimfoɔ nkyɛn wɔ kuro no ɛpono ano akɔka akyerɛ wɔn sɛ, “Me kunu nua no mpɛ sɛ ne nua no din bɛka Israel. Ɔrentumi nyɛ okunu nua asɛdeɛ mma me.” 8Afei, ɔbarima no kurom mpanimfoɔ bɛfrɛ no akasa akyerɛ no. Sɛ ɔse pene ara na ɔrempene no so a, ɔbɛka sɛ, “Mempɛ sɛ meware no” a, 9okunafoɔ no bɛkɔ ɔbarima no anim a mpanimfoɔ no nso wɔ hɔ bi. Ɔbɛworɔ ɔbarima no mpaboa baako, ate ntasuo agu nʼanim na waka sɛ, “Sei na ɛsɛ sɛ wɔyɛ ɔbarima a ɔmpɛ sɛ ɔtoa ne nua abusua so.” 10Wɔbɛfrɛ saa onipa no asefoɔ wɔ Israel sɛ abusua a wɔaworɔ wɔn mpaboa.
11Sɛ Israelfoɔ mmarima baanu reko na wɔn mu baako yere pɛ sɛ ɔboa ne kunu enti, ɔsɔ ɔbarima baako no barima mu a, 12ɛsɛ sɛ wɔtwa ɔbaa no nsa no a ahummɔborɔ biara nni mu.
13Momfa nsania papa nkari adwadeɛ 14na monsusu adwadeɛ no pɛpɛɛpɛ. 15Aane, momfa nsania pa na monsusu adwadeɛ nso pɛpɛɛpɛ na moanya nkwa nna tenten wɔ asase a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, de rema mo no so. 16Wɔn a wɔfa nsania bɔne ne nkontompo so kari adwadeɛ no yɛ Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, akyiwadeɛ.
17Mommma mo werɛ mfiri deɛ Amalekfoɔ yɛɛ mo ɛberɛ a mofiri Misraim reba no ɛda biara da. 18Wɔto hyɛɛ mo so ɛberɛ a moabrɛbrɛ na moatotɔ baha no, na wɔn a wɔaka akyi no nso, wɔbobɔɔ wɔn hwehwee fam. Na wɔnsuro Onyankopɔn. 19Ɛno enti, sɛ Awurade mo Onyankopɔn ma mo ahomegyeɛ firi mo atamfoɔ nyinaa nsam wɔ asase a ɔde rema mo sɛ agyapadeɛ sononko no so a, ɛsɛ sɛ mosɛe Amalekfoɔ, na yɛankae wɔn bio wɔ asase yi so. Mommma mo werɛ mfiri yei da!
