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,’ (A)then his brother’s widow shall come up to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and (B)spit in his face; and she shall [a]declare, ‘This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house!’ 10 And in Israel [b]his family shall be called by the name, ‘The house of him whose sandal was removed.’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 25:9 Lit answer and say
  2. Deuteronomy 25:10 Lit his name shall be called

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