Deuteronomy 25:6-8

New International Reader's Version

⁶ Her first baby boy will be named after her first husband. Then the dead man’s name will continue in Israel.

⁷ But suppose the man doesn’t want to marry his brother’s wife. Then she will go to the elders at the gate of the town. She will say, “My husband’s brother refuses to keep his brother’s name alive in Israel. He won’t do for me what a brother-in-law is supposed to do.” ⁸ Then the elders in his town will send for him. They will talk to him. But he still might say, “I don’t want to marry her.”