Deuteronomy 25:7
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Deut 25:7
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~"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.'
Deut 25:8
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~"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,'
Deut 25:9
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then 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.'
Deut 25:10
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~"In Israel his name shall be called, `The house of him whose sandal is removed.'
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