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Deuteronomy 25:9-11
English Standard Version
Deuteronomy 25:9-11
English Standard Version
9 then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and (A)pull his sandal off his foot and (B)spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not (C)build up his brother's house.’ 10 And the name of his house[a] shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’
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11 “When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,
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Deuteronomy 25:9-11
New International Version
Deuteronomy 25:9-11
New International Version
9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals,(A) spit in his face(B) and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.” 10 That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts,
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