Deuteronomy 25

¹ Forsothe if he nyle take the wijf of his brother, which is due to hym bi lawe, the womman schal go to the yate of the citee; and sche schal axe the grettere men in birthe, and sche schal seie, The brother of myn hosebonde nyle reise seed of his brother in Israel, nethir wole take me in to mariage. 2 And anoon thei schulen make hym to be clepid, and thei schulen axe. If he answerith, Y nyle take hir to wijf; 3 the womman schal go to hym bifor the eldre men of Israel, and sche schal take awei the schoo, and sche schal spete in to his face, and schal seie, So it schal be doon to the man, that bildith not the hows of his brother; ⁴ and the name of hym schal be clepid in Israel, The hows of the man vnschood. 5 If twei men han strijf bitwixe hem silf, and oon bigynneth to stryue ayens another, and the wijf of the tother man wole delyuere hir hosebonde fro the hond of the strongere man, and puttith hond, and takith the schamefast membris of hym, ⁶ thou schalt kitte awei the hond of hir, nether thou schalt be bowid on hir bi ony mercy. 7 Thou schalt not haue in the bagge dyuerse weiytis, 8 a grettere and a lesse, nether a buyschel more and lesse schal be in thin hows. 9 Thou schalt haue a iust weiyte and trewe, and an euene buyschel and trewe schal be to thee, that thou lyue in myche tyme on the lond which thi Lord God schal yyue to thee. ¹⁰ For the Lord schal haue hym abhomynable that doith these thingis, and he wlatith, ethir cursith, al vnriytfulnesse. 11 Haue thou mynde what thingis Amalech dide to thee in the weie, whanne thou yedist out of Egipt; 12 hou he cam to thee, and killide the laste men of thin oost, that saten wery, whanne thou were disesid with hungur and trauel, and he dredde not God. 13 Therfor whanne thi Lord God hath youe reste to thee, and hath maad suget alle naciouns bi cumpas, in the lond which he bihiyte to thee, thou schalt do awei the name of hym vndur heuene; be thou war lest thou foryete. 15 And whanne thou hast entrid in to the lond which thi Lord God schal yyue to thee to welde, and thou hast gete it, and hast dwellid therynne, 16 thou schalt take the firste fruytis of alle thi fruytis, and thou schalt putte in a panyere; and thou schalt go to the place which thi Lord God chees, that his name be inwardly clepid there. 17 And thou schalt go to the preest, that schal be in tho daies, and thou schalt seie to hym, Y knowleche to dai bifor thi Lord God, that Y entride in to the lond, for which he swoor to oure fadris, that he schulde yyue it to vs. 18 And the preest schal take the panyere of thin hond, and schal sette bifor the auter of thi Lord God. 19 And thou schalt speke in the siyt of thi Lord God, Sirus pursuede my fadir, which fadir yede doun in to Egipt, and was a pilgrym there in feweste noumbre; and he encreesside in to a greet folk, and strong, and of multitude without noumbre.