# Justice and remembering Amalek Deuteronomy · Draft · BSB Content revision: 07820e8bd0463af3 · No editorial review date recorded [Citation / readable page](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/studies/deuteronomy/justice-and-amalek/) [Open interactive map](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?study=deuteronomy§ion=justice-and-amalek) [Markdown](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/studies/deuteronomy/justice-and-amalek/index.md) [JSON](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/studies/deuteronomy/justice-and-amalek/index.json) Date: c. 1406 BC · Year 40, month 11 (Deuteronomy 1:3). Dated from 1 Kings 6:1 (the Exodus c. 1446 BC). Many scholars instead date the Exodus to about 1260 BC, placing these speeches about 1220 BC. Punishment must be limited to forty lashes. An ox treading grain must not be muzzled. A widow whose husband died without a son is to marry his brother to carry on his name. Israel must use honest weights and measures, and must remember how Amalek attacked the weary stragglers on the way out of Egypt. Deuteronomy records Moses’ last speeches to the new generation of Israel on the plains of Moab, in the fortieth year after the Exodus (1:3). It looks back over the journey from Egypt and Horeb and forward to life in the land, calling Israel to love the LORD and remember what he has done. Each section below lists what Moses recalls, with links to those events on the timeline, and where the rest of Scripture takes up the passage. The Ten Commandments, the great commandment, and the statutes for life in the land, ending with blessings and curses (4:44–28:68). ## Primary Scripture [Deuteronomy 25:1–19 (BSB)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2025%3A1%E2%80%9319&version=BSB) 25:1 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. 25:2 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. 25:3 He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight. 25:4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain. 25:5 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. 25:6 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. 25:7 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.” 25:8 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,” 25:9 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.” 25:10 And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.” 25:11 If two men are fighting, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals, 25:12 you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity. 25:13 You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. 25:14 You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small. 25:15 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. 25:16 For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God. 25:17 Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt, 25:18 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. 25:19 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! ## Moses looks back [Deuteronomy 25:17–19](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2025%3A17%E2%80%9319&version=BSB) Amalek’s attack (Exodus 17). [Water from the rock](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/rephidim/) ## Where Scripture takes it up [1 Corinthians 9:9–10](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%209%3A9%E2%80%9310&version=BSB) Paul applies the muzzled ox to those who preach. [Mark 12:18–23](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2012%3A18%E2%80%9323&version=BSB) The Sadducees question Jesus about this law. [Temple debates, warnings and the widow’s gift](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/debates-in-the-temple/) [2 Corinthians 11:24](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%2011%3A24&version=BSB) Paul received forty lashes minus one five times. ## Location evidence Plains of Moab: Approximate region. Coordinates \[longitude, latitude\]: \[35.64, 31.85\]. Classification source: editorial. Illustrative regional extent: \[\[35.56,31.77\],\[35.7,31.91\]\]; not a measured confidence interval. [Numbers 33:48–49 · extent of the camp](https://ebible.org/eng-web/NUM33.htm) ## For the class What does the muzzled ox law say about how workers should be treated? ## Interpretation and reuse Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review. Record source: editorial Study guide: original editorial writing for Scripture Atlas. Place coordinates: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0. 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