Fairness and Mercy
If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned. Pro 17:15Deu 1:16-17Deu 17:8-92Ch 19:6-102Sa 23:3Deu 16:18-20Deu 19:17-19Exo 23:6-7
If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants. Luk 12:47-481Pe 2:201Pe 2:24Act 16:22-24Act 5:40Mat 10:17Mat 27:26 He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight. Job 18:3Jas 2:2-32Co 11:24-25Luk 15:30Luk 18:9-12
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain. 1 1Ti 5:17-181Co 9:9-10Pro 12:10Hos 10:11Isa 28:27
Widowhood and Marriage
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her. 2 Luk 20:28Mat 22:24Gen 38:8-9Mrk 12:19Rut 1:12-13Rut 3:9Rut 4:5 The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. Deu 21:19Psa 109:13Psa 9:5Deu 29:20Deu 9:14Gen 28:8-10Rut 4:1-7Rut 4:10-12
But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.” Rut 4:1-2Rut 4:5-6
Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,” Rut 4:6 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.” Num 12:14Rut 4:7-8Gen 38:8-10Isa 20:2Isa 50:6Jhn 1:27Job 30:10Mat 26:67 And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals, 1Ti 2:9Rom 3:8 you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity. Deu 19:13Deu 19:21Deu 7:2
Standard Weights and Measures
(Proverbs 11:1–3; Ezekiel 45:10–12)
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. Pro 11:1Amo 8:5Lev 19:35-37Pro 16:11Ezk 45:10-11Mic 6:11-12Pro 20:10 You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Exo 20:12Deu 4:401Pe 3:10Deu 11:9Deu 5:16Deu 5:33Deu 6:18Eph 6:3 For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God. Pro 11:1Rev 21:271Th 4:6Deu 22:51Co 6:9-11Amo 8:5-7Deu 18:12Pro 20:23
Revenge on the Amalekites
Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt, Exo 17:8-16Num 24:20Num 25:17-18 how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God. Psa 36:1Rom 3:18Neh 5:15Neh 5:9Pro 16:6
When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget! Exo 17:141Sa 14:48Deu 9:14Exo 17:161Ch 4:431Sa 15:1-351Sa 27:81Sa 30:1-7