¹“If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, ²then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows. ³Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight. ⁴“You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain. ⁵“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. ⁶And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears will succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel. ⁷But if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’ ⁸Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. But if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not want to take her,’ ⁹then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house.’ ¹⁰And his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’ ¹¹“If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals, ¹²then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her. ¹³“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. ¹⁴You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. ¹⁵You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you. ¹⁶For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the Lᴏʀᴅ your God. ¹⁷“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, ¹⁸how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God. ¹⁹Therefore it shall be, when the Lᴏʀᴅ your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.

¹I love the Lᴏʀᴅ, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. ²Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live. ³The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow. ⁴Then I called upon the name of the Lᴏʀᴅ: “O Lᴏʀᴅ, I implore You, deliver my soul!” ⁵Gracious is the Lᴏʀᴅ, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful. ⁶The Lᴏʀᴅ preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me. ⁷Return to your rest, O my soul, For the Lᴏʀᴅ has dealt bountifully with you. ⁸For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling. ⁹I will walk before the Lᴏʀᴅ In the land of the living. ¹⁰I believed, therefore I spoke, “I am greatly afflicted.” ¹¹I said in my haste, “All men are liars.” ¹²What shall I render to the Lᴏʀᴅ For all His benefits toward me? ¹³I will take up the cup of salvation, And call upon the name of the Lᴏʀᴅ. ¹⁴I will pay my vows to the Lᴏʀᴅ Now in the presence of all His people. ¹⁵Precious in the sight of the Lᴏʀᴅ Is the death of His saints. ¹⁶O Lᴏʀᴅ, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds. ¹⁷I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the Lᴏʀᴅ. ¹⁸I will pay my vows to the Lᴏʀᴅ Now in the presence of all His people, ¹⁹In the courts of the Lᴏʀᴅ’s house, In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lᴏʀᴅ!

¹Awake, awake! Put on your strength, O Zion; Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean Shall no longer come to you. ²Shake yourself from the dust, arise; Sit down, O Jerusalem! Loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion! ³For thus says the Lᴏʀᴅ: “You have sold yourselves for nothing, And you shall be redeemed without money.” ⁴For thus says the Lᴏʀᴅ God: “My people went down at first Into Egypt to dwell there; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. ⁵Now therefore, what have I here,” says the Lᴏʀᴅ, “That My people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them Make them wail,” says the Lᴏʀᴅ, “And My name is blasphemed continually every day. ⁶Therefore My people shall know My name; Therefore they shall know in that day That I am He who speaks: ‘Behold, it is I.’ ” ⁷How beautiful upon the mountains Are the feet of him who brings good news, Who proclaims peace, Who brings glad tidings of good things, Who proclaims salvation, Who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” ⁸Your watchmen shall lift up their voices, With their voices they shall sing together; For they shall see eye to eye When the Lᴏʀᴅ brings back Zion. ⁹Break forth into joy, sing together, You waste places of Jerusalem! For the Lᴏʀᴅ has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem. ¹⁰The Lᴏʀᴅ has made bare His holy arm In the eyes of all the nations; And all the ends of the earth shall see The salvation of our God. ¹¹Depart! Depart! Go out from there, Touch no unclean thing; Go out from the midst of her, Be clean, You who bear the vessels of the Lᴏʀᴅ. ¹²For you shall not go out with haste, Nor go by flight; For the Lᴏʀᴅ will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your rear guard. ¹³Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high. ¹⁴Just as many were astonished at you, So His visage was marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of men; ¹⁵So shall He sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths at Him; For what had not been told them they shall see, And what they had not heard they shall consider.

¹And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. ²In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. ³And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. ⁴They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. ⁵There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever. ⁶Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.” And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take place. ⁷“Behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.” ⁸Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. ⁹Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” ¹⁰And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. ¹¹He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.” ¹²“And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. ¹³I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” ¹⁴Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. ¹⁵But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie. ¹⁶“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.” ¹⁷And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. ¹⁸For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; ¹⁹and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. ²⁰He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! ²¹The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.