⁹ then she is to approach her brother-in-law in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and say in response, ‘May this be done to the man who does not preserve the lineage^[a] of his brother.’ ¹⁰ Then his family name in Israel will be known as ‘the family of the one whose sandal was removed.’”

Limiting a Wife’s Defense

¹¹ “If two men are fighting together, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the grasp of his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes his genitals,