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Deuteronomy 25:1
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1 “If there is a adispute between men, and they come to1 court, that the judges may judge them, and they bjustify the righteous and condemn the wicked,  
2 then it shall be, if the wicked man adeserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down band be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows.  
3 aForty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother bbe humiliated in your sight.  
4 a“You shall not muzzle an ox while it1 treads out the grain.  

Marriage Duty of the Surviving Brother

5 a“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.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Deuteronomy 25:1

They shall justify the righteous - This is a very important passage, and is a key to several others. The word tsadak is used here precisely in the same sense in which St. Paul sometimes uses the corresponding word , not to justify or make just, but to acquit, declare innocent, to remit punishment, or give reasons why such a one should not be punished; so here the magistrates hitsdiku , shall acquit, the righteous - declare him innocent, because he is found to be righteous and not wicked: so the Septuagint: they shall make righteous the righteous - declare him free from blame, not liable to punishment, acquitted; using the same word with St. Paul when he speaks of a sinner' s justification, i. e., his acquittance from blame and punishment, because of the death of Christ in his stead.


 
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