⁸ Then the elders of the town must call for the man and talk to him. But he might be stubborn and say, “I don’t want to marry her.”

⁹ If he does, the woman must go up to him in front of the elders. She must take off one of his sandals. She must spit in his face and say, “This is for the man who won’t continue his brother’s family!” ¹⁰ Then that man’s family shall be known in Israel as the Family of the Unsandaled.