Deuteronomy 25 (NASB)

19 verses · New American Standard Bible · Formal equivalence (most literal)

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Deuteronomy Chapter 25 contains 19 verses and is presented here in the New American Standard Bible (NASB), which uses a formal equivalence (most literal) approach. Read the full text below, compare with other translations, or navigate to any of the 34 chapters in Deuteronomy.

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1'If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

2then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.

3'He may beat him forty times [but] no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.

4'You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.

5'When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be [married] outside [the family] to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

6'It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

7'But if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'

8'Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And [if] he persists and says, 'I do not desire to take her,'

9then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'

10'In Israel his name shall be called, 'The house of him whose sandal is removed.'

11'If [two] men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

12then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

13'You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.

14'You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

15'You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

16'For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the LORD your God.

17'Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt,

18how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

19'Therefore it shall come about when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

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What is Deuteronomy 25 in the NASB?

Deuteronomy 25 in the New American Standard Bible (NASB) contains 19 verses. The NASB uses a formal equivalence (most literal) approach, first published in 1971 (rev. 2020).

How does the NASB translate Deuteronomy 25 differently?

The New American Standard Bible uses formal equivalence (most literal), balancing accuracy with modern readability. Compare this with the NIV (dynamic equivalence) version of Deuteronomy 25 for a different perspective.

How many verses are in Deuteronomy 25 (NASB)?

Deuteronomy Chapter 25 contains 19 verses in the New American Standard Bible. The book of Deuteronomy has 34 chapters total.

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